Miami New Times interviews Neil de la Flor about Reading Queer: Poetry In A Time of Chaos, a new anthology he co-editedwith Maureen Seaton. Excerpt: "As Miami’s cultural landscape boomed in the past decade — with the influx of major art fairs, new museums, and local galleries opening in up-and-coming neighborhoods — the city’s queer [...]
"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.
"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 [...]
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 [...]
Life is exhausting and hectic, but I finally had the opportunity to stay still and work on a new image from the Quarks, which is a series of micro stories made visible through light. This is an excerpt from "When we rise, we rise together". The title was inspired by Michelle Obama's speech to the [...]
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