3. Death
Setting the conversation’s mood, Mitchell talks about decline, about the US as a dying empire. Decay can be seen as a phase of a specific variant of strength through focus, in which time seemingly slows down, enabling a gaze towards past action’s consequences.
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Instincts of Trust: Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell
Rachel Kerby Couture Photoshoot with Nina Pak
It’s always a pleasure to shoot with Nina because it’s a very inspiring process, and I can see myself grow as an artist. I still remember the first few times we shot together, I would stay up all night to plan looks in my head and look at different photos online to get ideas. I know I have grown because in the more recent shoots with Nina I can plan as I go and get inspired while at the shoot.— Rachel Kerby
A Love Affair – Stefania Airo’
After a love is over, if she could look back she would realize to have ignored painful and uncomfortable truths about her love story, which Was going to end. Silence and discontent were signals of changes but she felt so anxious that she preferred to ignore them. Therefore… when tentions explode, when hidden and painful truths emerge, people feel surprised. Being aware of the causes of a love end, makes defeats less painful and new starts more conscious.
A Conversation with Paul Rivera by Alisa Solovyeva
When I first visited paulifornia.com, I immediately fell in love with its cool, hip and unpretentious vibe. Paulifornia’s blog features recently completed projects. Individually they are impressive, but collectively, they embody one man’s deep and lifelong passion for media, arts and music. That man is Paul Rivera, and try as I did, I could not find this photographer’s photograph on the website. I wondered if perhaps he was shy, preferring to view life from behind the camera. I quickly found out otherwise. more » “A Conversation with Paul Rivera by Alisa Solovyeva”
The House That Jack Built
Well, we had our first real fight in the Mercer Gallery last night. And the strange thing is, we were lucky that a black eye and a few bruised ribs was as bad as it got. Last night marked the opening of Jack Daws’s new exhibition, The House That Jack Built, and it was a queer collection of anarchists and poets, celebrities and activists, and one colorful character who claims to be the re-incarnation of Henry David Thoreau himself. more » “The House That Jack Built”