tada!

Here's what Dan sent me after the test shoot:


I'm pretty pleased, especially since it's not shopped beyond black/white and vignette. And no makeup! So naked. Whatev!

dust to dust

Article: Death’s Bloom by Adam Harrison Levy
Artwork: David Maisel, photographer

The canister pictured contains the ashes of a deceased mental patient. Hundreds of patients at this particular asylum were buried, then their bodies exhumed and cremated after the hospital decided to expand upon its own property (removing the cemetery, as it were). The canisters were sealed and put into a vault, then later put into nondescript shelves in a basement storage room that was prone to flooding. From the flooding, the stamped-on ID numbers were scrubbed beyond recognition, and the paper labels with the deceased patients' names were obviously dissolved. Chemicals reacted over decades and we are left with these brilliantly colored canisters, full of human remains. An intense and sorrowful story. I was moved by not just the artwork, but by the writing of the article regarding the artwork itself.

"Between the Lines" by Ariana Boussard-Reifel.

A book with every word cut out of every page. Is it even a book anymore?