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Gizelle’s Belltown Show, and Modern American Masculinity

I kept saying that I’ve had Gizelle’s Belltown Art Walk show in my calendar for a year, and today my phone reminded me that we in fact did hang out exactly one year ago today, when I must have put it in my calendar, because it was already in there the next time we met up and she excitedly relayed her plans for it. I had a vague idea what to expect, but walking into the space still took my breath away, like “wow.” The sheer scale of these pieces, combined with the patient labor it took to make them … Continue reading “Gizelle’s Belltown Show, and Modern American Masculinity” →

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Maximalism and Stolen Valor at the Cornish BFA Show

The word “maximalist” was used a couple of times in this year’s @cornish_artdept BFA bios, but none embodied it as fully as @masonsmixedmedia’s “explosion” of art titled something about a horse (?) – with so much to take in, I forgot to note it down. For reasons that will become very obvious, this work could not be contained within a single post. x Coffee shop and church pews through dirty and colored windows. x Mason Webb @masonsmixedmedia at the @cornish_artdept BFA exhibit. I laughed when I read the artist description of these pieces, itself a work of dada: 1, 2025, … Continue reading “Maximalism and Stolen Valor at the Cornish BFA Show” →

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Being, Having, Seeing (More from the Cornish BFA Show)

“If all of the technical forces of capitalism must be understood as tools for the making of separations, in the case of urbanism we are dealing with the equipment at the basis of these technical forces, with the treatment of the ground that suits their deployment, with the very technique of separation.” (Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, as featured in @cloecaroljane’s artist statement at the Cornish BFA exhibit) x “Being, Having, Seeing,” Cloe Caroljane Short @cloecaroljane at the @cornish_artdept BFA exhibit. Everything about this install – from the graphic aesthetic to the post-internet motifs to the naming convention (e.g. … Continue reading “Being, Having, Seeing (More from the Cornish BFA Show)” →

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Strange Food and Little Makers: The Cornish BFA Show

I’ve been thinking about Luigi Ghirri again. Christine sent me a video about him, seeing something in his work that would resonate with me, not knowing that I’d already noticed that affinity a couple years ago. It was nice to have validation of my hubris. Here’s what Ghirri had to say about photography: “Beyond all critical and intellectual explanations, beyond all negative aspects it might posses, photography is, I think, a formidable visual language tor fostering this desire for the infinite that inhabits each of us. As I have said before, it is a great adventure in the world of … Continue reading “Strange Food and Little Makers: The Cornish BFA Show” →

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Fake Spring, Firmware Hacks, and Oxbow Park

I should have known that it would snow today, way after all the daffodils bloomed with their fake news of spring. I was almost shivering taking these photos in the ice cold rain yesterday evening. I was in Georgetown meeting with a couple comrades again, and decided to take the bus all the way to Oxbow Park first, to do another comparison shoot. But it was too cold and the gimmick I wanted to demonstrate was too finicky for me to stay very long. Here you see the Canon Rebel SL1 I bought for work paired with the Powershot SX260 … Continue reading “Fake Spring, Firmware Hacks, and Oxbow Park” →

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Abby Martin’s Seattle Premiere (and Joyous News)

I just heard joyous news that’s not mine to share, but I will say that it’s making me weep to a degree I did not expect. x Abby Martin is a tour de force both on and off the screen. She spoke with such passion last night at the unofficial Seattle premiere of her latest @empirefiles film, EARTH’S GREATEST ENEMY, co-sponsored by @seattledsa and @ydsa_uw, and if you managed to grab a ticket for tonight’s sold-out show at SIFF Uptown, you’ll see exactly what I mean. See you there. x We spoke a little about “hope” on our way to … Continue reading “Abby Martin’s Seattle Premiere (and Joyous News)” →

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The Rest of the Polaroids (Without Breaking Stride)

The light rail’s changed so much since I first moved here, I keep having to remember new names for northbound and southbound. x Here are the rest of the Polaroids from Saturday. Christine convinced me to take one of me as well, but, naturally, you don’t get to see that one here. x I took these photos without breaking my stride. x

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Polaroids, Palestine, and a Pop-Up at Pipsqueak

Saturday was a first for me. Polaroids I took at the @marchforpalestine.seattle in May 2024 ended up in a pop-up exhibit at @pipsqueak.seattle by way of Instagram, @circadies’ kind invitation, and @elderandyarrow’s artful arrangement, as part of an ongoing project to archive that historic community action. I’d been on the periphery in the lead-up to this preview of a larger exhibit planned for Spring and could barely visualize how it would all come together. “I can’t believe this is real,” is all I could muster up when I walked in. The piece itself, which I called “Assemblage for Gaza” when … Continue reading “Polaroids, Palestine, and a Pop-Up at Pipsqueak” →