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Month: October, 2010

Dance and Drawing. And more on the space in between.

Choreographer Pina Bausch’s Vollmond ran a few weeks ago at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I attended on a less-than-cold Fall evening, privy to this pseudo-epilogue of performance that created more atmospheric nostalgia for the now deceased Bausch than it did raise an ovation for the content itself. In truth, Bausch’s Tantztheater always bordered life [...]

Space In Between

A friend of mine wrote this once. It makes me think that relationships are perhaps more about the space in between than together. I’ve combined it with a series of images I made in Puerto Rico in 2005. I. They arrived midday and ate crackers on the sidewalk. Five young men paced around, trading tobacco [...]

On Female Domesticity

Stylist, Elle Kunnos. Photography, Tim Wilson. Art Direction & Model, Emilie Baltz.

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