This fall I had the opportunity to photograph creative activist/consultant/life coach Julie Ann Otis’ interactive installation “American Therapy Booth” while it was set up on Atlantic Wharf in downtown Boston. This was my second time working with Julie Ann — I shot her installation “Free Verse” in Union Square in Somerville, back in 2015. You can read more about the installation on her website.
11 years ago, two women opened a nonprofit resale shop in the Fox branch of the Arlington Library. After an unexpected closure last summer, they re-opened it last week. Read about what happened in my latest post on Icons of Arlington.
This summer I’ve been trying to shoot more often: for fun, but also to show other people what my daily like looks like through my eyes. Here’s where I started: a typical summer evening coming home from my internship at ACMi.
There were a couple of prop cigarettes left over from production design on “Better Off,” so I smoked ’em, messed around with a desk lamp, sand took some photos. They are not as nasty as real cigarettes, but give you that same sensation of inhaling a burning plant that I kind of hate. You can…
Here’s what I saw and did during my 2nd week of social distancing/quarantine/whatever you’d like to call it. My family and I are all doing well and staying in the house except for grocery and TP runs, walks around the neighborhood, and to hang out on the back patio.
New Icons of Arlington post. I wrote about the statue called Menotomy Indian Hunter, but mostly about the colonial history of our town.
Back when it wasn’t nasty out, my friend Matthew and I took a trip to Mount Auburn Cemetery to take some photos. You can see Matthew’s work (as well as some amazing poetry) on Instagram here.