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 [...]
Tag: Photography
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
When we rise, we rise together
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 [...]
Pro-life billboards
Central Florida is famous for pro-life billboards. Here's a series that ends with a Grade A beef billboard just south of Okeechobee, FL.
MANCC Artist/Writer Convening road trip
Tomorrow we head to Tallahassee, FL (on a creative road tip of sorts) for the MANCC Artist/Writer Convening at FSU where writers and choreographers will convene to explore the generative possibilities of working together. This, I like. I'm excited. I've never participated in a think-tank or had the luxury to spend two days talking [...]
Neil de la Flor 