According to the Farmer's Almanac, "Hundreds of years ago, many farmers would seal their barns with linseed oil, which is an orange-colored oil derived from the seeds of the flax plant. To this oil, they would add a variety of things, most often milk and lime, but also ferrous oxide, or rust. ... It turned the mixture red in [...]
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The Mean State of Virtue
"The Mean State of Virtue" | 60" x 40" or 30" x 20" (c-print) |Backstory: an evening driving through rain in Little Haiti that ended with a line lifted from Aristotle's Politics.
Exodus
A break from preparing tax returns lead to "Exodus", a new image from a new photographic series called TxT. Thanks to Bessy Grisell Morales & Andre Martinez for letting me translate their wedding imagery into language, which kind of looks like the conga line that never took place during the reception.
I asked you not to throw them at me when you dance
"I asked you not to throw them at me when you dance" (60" x 40") is a photograph from The Quarks, a series of micro stories revelaed through light. This image, like most of the photos in the series, was taken on the 4th of July or New Year's Eve. The photograph captures the aftermath [...]
The Invasion of Hoth
Sometimes there's nothing you can do but go with the chaos and lean into it. Learn from it (even if it feels like it's going to drown you). Giving in isn't giving up. "The Invasion of Hoth (or where I left my phone)" is an image from The Quarks, a series of micro stories made [...]
Crisis of Conscience
Photography calms, especially when I discover beauty in error. These small catastrophes sucker punch the insidious drive for perfection that moves me. "Crisis of Conscience" comes out of the conflict between error & perfection and opens up the possibility of seeing beauty in different manifestations. Recognizing that perfection isn't an end in itself, but a [...]
Neil de la Flor 