VISUAL Diary
An attempt to subvert social media and stay in touch with those around me. Remember when Instagram was for sharing photos?
Twenty Twenty-One, You were Fun.
I’ve made a Zine to look back on this year and the good times had in Iceland.
It’s called, Twenty Twenty-One, You Were Fun. It doesn’t come close to showing everything that we did in the last year, but it does represent another year well spent.
In taking a look back at the year, I wanted to highlight the, well, highlights.
Moments that can’t be described, they have to be seen.
The times when the everyday is especially beautiful.
And of course, the things that make life a whole lot of fun.
See it here: Twenty Twenty-One, You Were Fun.
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If you pay attention to my work, if you’re at all someone who follows me closely, you’ll notice the addition of some flares to the light sources in the photographs that I have been taking lately. That’s because I am using a new lens filter that I recently purchased. Back when I was shooting on my original SLR camera, I had bought the same type of filter and had always wanted to incorporate it again into my digital work.
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I am as fascinated by the machines I was fascinated with as a child equally at 36 as I was at 3. At least I can find a way to share them with the world. It’s the same machines that now appear and create an uneasiness in my stomach; the feeling of ‘what is being built now,’ and when is enough, enough?
“Instead of saying that everyone – i.e. every one – is responsible for climate change, we all have to do our bit, it would be better to say that no-one is, and that’s the very problem. The cause of eco-catastrophe is an impersonal structure which, even though it is capable of producing all manner of effects, is precisely not a subject capable of exercising responsibility. The required subject – a collective subject - does not exist, yet the crisis, like all the other global crises we’re now facing, demands that it be constructed.” - Mark Fisher
Fisher addresses capitalism most in his writing and his understanding of the end of capitalism is better than just about anyone I’ve encountered. The concept that machines can cause uneasiness in me, a fear of what are we doing in this space, and why are we doing it is coming more and more these days. The book “How to Blow up a Pipeline” by Andreas Malm addresses our responsibility for destroying these machines and the mechanisms of production that are accelerating our extinction. More from that later.
