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Posts Tagged ‘Death’
Reflect/Absorb: BPR #23
In About All Publications, About Image Works on 02/19/2010 at 12:09
Words: Father of the Suicide [David Jordan, USA]
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Image: Reflect/Absorb [Karyn Eisler, Canada]
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Matchmaker: Editor of BluePrintReview [Dorothee Lang, Germany]
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THIS
unanticipated international collaboration in:
BluePrintReview #23 / (dis)comfort zones
How does the editor, Dorothee Lang, explain this particular coupling?
“the essay is about a painful subject: teenage suicide … and your water image has just the right mood: sadness, depth, a closing focus, things and thoughts underneath the surface”
I took this photo on the same day, from the same bridge, at the same time, save a moment or two, as the The Bow — an image that also appears in Issue 23, paired with Jennifer Jackson Whitley’s words on (addict)ion.
These word/image couplings provide a study in contrasts:
(addict)ion and suicide → two tales of discomfort;
and,
two photographs taken in Banff, Alberta, on a day when the mood was so different. It was such a happy day for my family and I; my mother’s birthday, my father and brother in attendance; all of us together, laughing, reminiscing, making moments of joy, memories of comfort …
Which Earthquake?
In Random Curiosities on 01/17/2010 at 07:38
The ambiguity makes me wonder:
Is the fundraiser for Haiti disaster relief?
or
Did the earthquake in Haiti spark fear in Vancouver,
and efforts to stockpile emergency funds for when
The Big One
shakes the Canadian west coast,
which we’re told is inevitable?
