Something Between Want and Desire: Javy Russell

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Sunday, April 6, 2014

Portrait of Javy Russell 1992 - 1996

I created my latest self-published book to remember a small box of cassette tapes that I threw away one month ago. In addition, it was a gift for my brother's birthday in January (three parts: this book, a gift card to Everyday Music, and a mixed CD = nearly obsolete). The action of photographing the objects before they were thrown away fits the series, Autobiography, but in reality, this project is about someone else (therefore it is not my personal history).

From the text above:

In 2004, while living in a Portland, Oregon rental, the basement flooded. I lost several of the mixed tapes Javy made me from the mid 1990s. They revealed his ingenuity in titling and compiling songs - one reason why they were saved long past having the means to play them. Here are the twenty-five that remain. They are not only a document of an era but the life of a 16-20 year old growing up in Boise, Idaho.

Side note: my brother hates cucumbers.

Monday, January 20, 2014

Exposed a Roll of Film for the First Time in a Decade

Sent 17 January 2014. Owning a typewriter makes letter writing infinitely more interesting for me to write (and hopefully for one to receive).

Thursday, February 16, 2012

161 Cat Scans Later...

Tonight I learned that it takes 2 hours and 45 minutes to scan every single cat in the July 2011 issue of Cat Fancy while stationed next to the darkroom answering questions about print quality. 161 jpegs later. I think it might take all lab days this semester to scan the rest of that box but here's to trying.

Also of note, I forgot I had tossed a few other pieces of my past in with the cats shipped back from the YMCA last summer including the exhibition announcement above next to the keyboard from a 1995 two-person exhibition with my father...

... several "best of" images from contact sheets from the New Zealand trip with Li Rader in the summer of 1994 that were featured in our exhibition Finding Stewart in the Lionel Rombach Gallery on the University of Arizona campus. My brother is also featured in some of the images....

...an exhibition announcement for a two-person exhibition of Cheryl Shurtleff-Young and my father from approximately 1988 (it's always been a reference for what an eye-catching exhibition card could look like and it's 8.5" x 11")...