Caitlin told me to "make a PERSONAL work that reflects your EMOTIONAL responses to being back in New York. Make your emotions visible to the viewer. It should be about present feelings, so no history lessons! it can be photographic, video, writing, sculpture, whatever."
Depending on your attention span, you can read the LONG or the SHORT statement:
LONG Statement:
Arriving back in NYC it seems like a completely different city than when i left. New York is hot, with damp hot air that sticks in my throat. I can't trot up the subway stairs like I could a month ago without losing my breath. My NYC insane schedule is gone (at least temporarily), and i have days off for the first time i can remember. I'm by myself... & after spending alot of time with alot people in sydney, being alone is weird. I don't know what to do with myself. I walk around the city and everything seems loud and shrill, especially the people... people look at me more than i remember.... My jetlag keeps me from sleeping and I have a constant low-grade headache that's always there, especially when I'm in the hot wet air outside. My exquisite friends are all scattered... my girlfriend Heather went off to alaska ... And just about all of my friends are out of the city. My best friend Ida is in india or somewhere. The few people I do know that are here I don't really want to see right away. About 2/3 of the people I work with are in europe. It's just me and the cat. But most of the time I'm not miserable or even unhappy, mostly just clueless about what to do each day. I'm extremely out of step, and I see what people mean when they talk about how loud and confrontational the city seems.
SHORT statement: The pictures are about feeling alone in the city, being out of step with it for the first time that I can remember, and choking on the hot summer air.
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3 comments:
cool. well not really. but cool. favorites: 2nd row down, 1st from the left; 3rd row down, first two from the left. they really emphasize that feeling of disorientation and the almost overwhelming aimlessness that you were describing. the color nails the city in summer perfectly. want more :)
they're beautiful.
i can not believe there's no people in the shot! my experience (even in winter!) is that there is ALWAYS people everywhere. the absence of humanity in one single frame makes it feel as though there's nobody in manhattan. amazing.
they feel like a 70's manhattan summer movie where someone isn't feeling right- maybe a bit taxidriver! you so smart!
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