Archive for 2005/07


So close, faraway

The states of division and individualism. Are they willed on us by ourselves? Or, are they the result of a strategy brought on by marketing firms and corporations, with the acquiescence of governments? Or, is it something else?

Something about this image caused me to think over the relatively recent trend of individualism, and its possible […]

A Week of Pictures #8

I’ve continued, albeit loosely, with my theme of two this week. It seems that it’s one thing to follow a theme with art, and then edit down later; but to do this in “real time” yields some interesting results, and these are more out of my hands than with the former method. As I’m publishing […]

Some kind of denial

Think about this for a minute, if you will. I’m standing quite still, but despite the night; the throbbing heat has turned the moon an almost blood red (well, it’s the thick polluted atmosphere, but it seems appropriate in any case), and streams of sweat are running down my burning body.

There’s more though. Every […]

A Week of Pictures #7

I experimented with a single theme this week. I was working loosely with the idea of two. The concept of two seems to offer a lot of possibilities, and to be appropriate to the political situation here in Korea. It also introduces concepts of duality, which as an idea is vast in its scope.

Naturally, the […]

Beyond a photograph

Maybe some subjects cannot be photographed. That is to say, a photograph cannot always give certain subjects the subtlety and respect required. Perhaps such subjects are better written about, or recreated through cinema.

I had an experience last week, which I felt at the time was best left not photographed. It’s not that there wouldn’t have […]