Coming soon to local bookstores and Amazon, New Orleans by New Orleans. New Orleans by New Orleans is a complex portrait of a beautiful city, presented through the eyes of its own community. It is is a published collection of stories inspired by the city of New Orleans, written by the people who know it. This is NOT a “Why I Love New Orleans” promotional informercial. It goes deeper to show an authentic and complex perspective of a fascinating, soulful and beautiful place.
The piece to the left is Many to Never Return from the 2005 series Our City is Gone. I was fresh to Wisconsin and, on the other side of the country, my home was washing away. I used prints from the 2001 Mardi Gras season and emails from a friend in exile to create four pieces about strength, loss, hope and home. As a photographer, I don't get to do a lot of handwork, but creating handwritten text in a pattern to finish each image was incredibly therapeutic. I never exhibited them.
New Orleans by New Orleans is the latest installment in Book by Authors, a community book program established by Smolarcorp in 2006.
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The philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” My work deals specifically with how we, as a culture, become women (and men) and what from our shared and unique histories - interpretations of literature, family artifacts, or the community of people in which we were raised - have had part in the shaping of those roles.
Visit my Etsy shop for the occasional SALE and follow me on Twitter to win artwork!!
The piece to the left is Many to Never Return from the 2005 series Our City is Gone. I was fresh to Wisconsin and, on the other side of the country, my home was washing away. I used prints from the 2001 Mardi Gras season and emails from a friend in exile to create four pieces about strength, loss, hope and home. As a photographer, I don't get to do a lot of handwork, but creating handwritten text in a pattern to finish each image was incredibly therapeutic. I never exhibited them.
New Orleans by New Orleans is the latest installment in Book by Authors, a community book program established by Smolarcorp in 2006.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . ...
The philosopher Simone de Beauvoir said: “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” My work deals specifically with how we, as a culture, become women (and men) and what from our shared and unique histories - interpretations of literature, family artifacts, or the community of people in which we were raised - have had part in the shaping of those roles.
Visit my Etsy shop for the occasional SALE and follow me on Twitter to win artwork!!
