Red Rain

Rain Lupia

Vanity In Bloom

Backyard Modeling

Minna Honkakoski, may we make it big one day.

Featured also on Looking Glass, Exit Through the Rabbit Hole, Given and Created, Vanity in Bloom, and Internal Oddities.

Infatuation

Here is Taylor and Brennan in the River Arts District.

Kaleidystopia

Kaleidystopia: a kaleidoscopic effect created with two mirrors and five dystopian novels (Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World, Animal Farm, 1984, A Clockwork Orange). If you aren’t living in an endless tumult of passages from past warnings, then you might just be one of the ones they convinced.

Everywhere the world movement seems to be in the direction of centralised economies which can be made to ‘work’ in an economic sense but which are not democratically organised and which tend to establish a caste system. With this go the horrors of emotional nationalism and a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some infallible fuhrer.

George Orwell, a 1944 letter later published

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped.”

George Orwell, 1984

“A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of literature if the mind that so uses it is off-balance.”

Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” -Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.“

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

Downtown Charlotte

35mm film from a trip to Charlotte, December 2020.

River Arts District

Film from May through July of 2020; all shot on a Canon AE-1

New Belgium

"Defund the Police"

After a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, an unarmed black citizen, week long protests broke out domestically and abroad. Here is some aftermath from the day after the major protests started hitting Asheville.

Much of downtown was either being boarded up, or already had reinforcements to prevent damage and looting. The whole town square had a heavy odor of spray paint. “Fuck 12” and other obscenities peppered the buildings around the Vance Monument, which many want removed due to its “racist history.” Some businesses had people out trying to scrub the statements off the walls.