influences

13 Mar 2007 7 min read

the personal aesthetic

does one learn aesthetics or does aesthetics learn you? meaning: is aesthetics a panoply of ideas and concerns one encounters in a ripe and meaningful fashion, something to add to an artistic arsenal that will further give shape and weight to work made--or is it a different kind of encounter, a shoc

02 Feb 2005 11 min read

perfect images, written photographs and the absolute

I have come and come again to Hérve Guibert, Roland Barthes and Marguerite Duras, who all have much to say about memory, regret, experience and selfhood. All of them go to great effort to articulate a particular lost moment, and what losing that moment does to their memory of it, and of themselves.