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zoe: twenty-five & in new york city.
Lucy, our 17-year-old beagle, seems to be getting to the end of her life. Yesterday, she fell over and couldn’t get back up again. We sat with her for hours while she lay on the bed dozing, and from time to time, she’d pick up her head and bark at nothing in particular. She ignored food that we put right in front of her, and for a beagle, that’s when you know something is seriously wrong.
Around 6 pm, she got up out of nowhere, ate food and drank water, and started pacing around the house like nothing had happened. She seemed confused and disoriented but otherwise okay.
I left, but she finally climbed back on the bed and fell asleep on my mom, who sent me this picture. I don’t know how she’ll be today. We’ll see.
THE BALLERINA PROJECT
One of my favorite NYC sights is seeing dancers warming up in the subway…have you experienced it? You’re waiting for the train and all of a sudden the person standing next to you starts to do a plie. There’s just something about that kind of beauty against a urban backdrop.
Which is why I’m equally fascinated with a photo series that’s been around for sometime now, The Ballerina Project. It’s an ongoing project by Dane Shitagi that depicts ballerinas amongst organic backdrops.
The project has been going steady for 10+ years in New York and now it’s trying to move on to a new phase – mini documentaries to compliment the photographs. Dane hope these will give new audiences a more complete and accurate representative of ballet to help sustain its future.
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The Photorealistic Space Arts of Jeremy Geddes
Jeremy’s process of oil on linens look so realistic I’m halfway convinced he has in his possession an interdimensional camera that takes pictures from another Earth, which he conveniently bundles as “paintings” to us gullible denizens of Earth-1. It would make sense with how photorealistic the levitating and often falling astronauts that populate his worlds. Most of his work is sold out, but keep checking his sites at the links below for updates on available prints.
I had the pleasure of seeing some of these paintings at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in NYC in December. Incredible work. Every painting has a subtle shift in perspective that makes you feel like you’re falling, somehow. Gave me vertigo.
