2.17.08 {jsl}

Spontaneous portraits

So what will it be? {jsl}

Who will you believe?

Darlings! {jsl}

We are panda bears in a bamboo forest- free, elusive and highly indulgent...

Ballyvaughan Buddies {dst}

For life.

2.6.08 {jsl}

"I perceive you to be changing, if you continue, you will disappear..."
-a stylized translation of what a professor said to me today and it had nothing to do with my art. I am exhausted by this weather.

I am a novice {jsl}

Juno: I need to know that two people can stay together...

Dad: Your best hope is for someone to love you for the way you are.

It is painful being a novice.

Little Ms Lin... {dst}

From "Russian Hat Series"

Phone booths, sunlit groves to Russian hats...

As pretty and full of grace, as a geisha.

Post by Danny.

A furry friend... {dst}

a relationship...{jsL}

More photos from The Transient Problem, interpretation #2

Who is this girl? {jsL}

I kind of miss her.

After the last shoot...{jsL}

Molly, Jess, and Danny near Bishop's Quarter Beach
It's strange to see a version of myself in this foreign landscape, partly because I can see what was neglected and what is forgotten.

Je t'aime {dst}

In one of the prettiest cities... Post by Danny.

Ireland on my mind {jsL}

1. pub life, Lahinge.2. It was my birthday, Lahinge.

3. Make a wish, Bishop's Quarter Beach.

4. A common sight, Ballyvaughan.

5. Through the forest to the Aillwee Caves, Ballyvaughan.

6. Who are you anyway? Co. Clare.

7. Who are you anyway? Co. Clare.

8. Who are you anyway? Co. Clare.

"Things are only caught in their own spells"
-Claude Cahun, Aveux non avenus p. 27

I seem to have lost something really important. What happened to me?

Aran Island memories {jsL}

You were gnarly that day...

(PS. thanks for not biking into the beautiful Irish horizon without me...even though I was slower than the neighborhood kids and perhaps the senior citizens as well.)

To be a panda... {dst}

It ain't easy being a panda. Post by Danny.

Danny and I {jsL}

Images from the Transient Problem, Interpretation #2

“It is very important that the mind feels that there is a moment of truth or a moment of authenticity. It’s really crucial, because if the artist’s hand is seen as too strong, the pictures seem either dead or contrived. The mind doesn’t believe it. The mind has to see that photograph as commenting on some aspect of truth, whatever truth means.”
-Roger Ballen

Ugh... I actually felt guilty for watching TV while having lunch today, how sad is that? Free time is so precious that I have a hard time deciding what to do with it. I scream silently in my head sometimes... Luckily, I can relax with suite 107 and Red Sox vs. Indians tonight!

Pre-Departure Exercise {jsL}

My Favorite Dress

My "pre-departure exercise" was returned to me today and I was reacquainted with all the surreal "goals" that I had hope to gain from studying in Ireland. They felt like old childhood friends who have not moved into the present. Not surprisingly I have changed and it felt like I was reading someone else's list. I was so restless and artistically constipated that ancient Ireland and the tiny Burren College of Art was exactly what my soul needed. Cheesy perhaps, but at the time Clark held nothing new for me, I've already "done Clark" for two and a half years. Secretly I also wanted to run away from myself because I had fallen into a hole and physically leaving the country was the only solution. I wasn't the only one needing a fresh perspective on life, as I happily found out that first freezing afternoon at Orchard House...

Christmas is for sharing {jsL}

My favorite Dump and Run mug of all time...

My life in motion {jsL}

Is there a more peaceful group of people one can hurt? My god, the notion of harming inherently innocent Buddhist monks disgusts me to my core.

BBC: 'Nine killed' in Burma crackdown

Nine people have been killed during Thursday's crackdown on anti-government protesters in Burma's main city of Rangoon, state media say.
Thursday's violence followed reports of overnight raids on six monasteries. Witnesses say soldiers smashed windows and doors and beat sleeping monks. Some escaped but hundreds were taken away in military trucks.
With fewer monks on the streets on Thursday, the military may have had fewer qualms about firing on the civilians, correspondents say, as monks are held in high esteem in Buddhist Burma. Analysts fear a repeat of the violence in 1988, when troops opened fire on unarmed protesters, killing thousands.
The current protests were triggered by the government's decision to double the price of fuel last month, hitting people hard in the impoverished nation.

Moments of love {dst}

Me and Hannah. Photo by Danny Turgeon.

I have never met a puppy so eager for affection. Only being where I am now have I realized how much my childhood lacked what I truly craved. Or is it because I lacked affection to such an extraordinary degree that I crave it so?