Evelyn Swift Shuker, local (Boston/Philly — hire them!) performance artist, director, and playwright, was the lead actress in a short film I made last semester. My co-director and I were lucky to do well enough on the project’s Kickstarter that we could pay them actual money, but I also did their headshots. We headed over to Powderhouse Park in Somerville and wandered around finding fun places to shoot!
The farmers’ market is the place to be in Arlington this summer. I checked out some produce and met Patsy Kraemer, the woman behind the operation. Read about it on Icons of Arlington.
Here’s another Tufts Dining event: breakfast for dinner in Carmichael Dining Center. Those blintzes are better than they look!
Here’s PNDP assignment #4: more portraits of strangers, but this time thinking about the concept of theophany (deities appearing to mortals in human form) while we were shooting. I went out to Revere Beach for this assignment. People were not as friendly out there as they were in Medford Square, except for Paul. Paul says…
Trash Paintings, 2020-ongoing Mixed media art waste (often including acrylic, PVA glue, paper, cardboard, and Sculptamold) on canvas board In my series ‘Trash Paintings’, I only use materials left over from other art projects—unused acrylic paint lingering on the palette, sheets of half-dried glue from the morning after a papier-mache session, snippets of cardboard picked…
I went to East Arlington’s 21st annual Feast of the East for Icons of Arlington. Write-up here.
Past midnight on a long, exhausted drive back from Central MA after a shoot for my LGBTQ+ tattoo photo essay, I stopped at the Fifties Diner in Chicopee.