Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Phake Photo Show!

 Covid taught me how to walk.  Before that, I rode a bike everywhere and my hip flexors tightened into the kind of rubber bands you associate with orthodontia.  During covid, something happened to my eyesight which turned out to be this.  I stopped riding my bike because my depth perception was crap and I started walking.  Soon my hip flexors sorted themselves out and the unthinkable happened.  I fell in love with walking!  

Second piece of contextual info: before UArts imploded, I was an adjunct professor of "Interdisciplinary Fine Art" (they had folded their renowned and fantastic Crafts Program in 2019, apparently the first of a series of giant heartbreaks associated with UArts, where I was employed for 30 years).  I was teaching a class called "Projects" and because it was a core class in Fine Arts, this included Photography students.  I had the great honor of co-teaching with such great artists and educators as Anne Massoni, David Graham, Shawn Theodore and Juliana Foster.

And anything I thought I knew about photography was eradicated during this time!  I felt a little out of my depths teaching photo students, but it is one of my fondest memories--looking at their works in Lightroom and considering what it means to make a decent photo. 

All of this to say, I have NO CLUE what I am doing as a photographer and I make no real artistic claims here.  Its just a "hobby" for me.  Here is a curated set of my favorite pics I have taken on my "covid walks" (and other things I have encountered doing goodness knows what).  They are things that caught my eye and seemed worthy of making a photo of.

 There are two other "photo essays" (i.e. pics that must be seen as a series because they don't really stand alone.  Ladies of the Pandemic and Philly Bouquets



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Smoking Kills

Nicotine Fiend

November 1

River

Fake De Saedeleer Painting

Urban Jellyfish

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Ridiculously Elegant Leaves

Jan 2

The Saddest Little Garden Ever

Arrangement in Grey and Green No. 1

Yorick Faculty Meeting

Bathtub Swirl

Covid Emergency

Charlie Brown

Stool

Philly Bouquet

Better Living Through Anthropomorphism

Magritte Facade

Last Man

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Cat Lady

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Snowy

Dead Baby Squirrel

Our Valued Passengers

Face Plant
Hospital Driveway



Symbiosis

Hail Satin