To your left is "Miniature America" by Ed Ruscha circa 1982, which is ever so appropriately my year of birth. About two years ago, a friend gave me a book of his paintings entitled "They Called Her Styrene." This one really stuck out and made me want to be somewhere barren of commerce. I have a thing for the small town aesthetic. I think rust is incredibly pretty. I love the smell of a hose on a hot day. Returning to Ruscha, my personal favorite from that collection of paintings is "The Last Thing I Need Is A Pair Of Binoculars." I don't believe that needs any additional explanation regarding its eloquence. It doesn't work as a blog title though. It's a bit much. At any rate, in coming up with a name for a blog I ran through a few (grass is greener, lilt, etc) all of which were taken and then this painting came back to me. Anyone who knows me knows I'm on a fence about this blog thing. My problems being will I regret some of what I write and does anyone really care? I really decided to do it because I couldn't stay in een per dag, my beloved SCAD alumni one a day photo project. It is being honored in my Sunday Reading section on this very page. I left that project because the daily command was compromising the quality of the work for me personally. So here and now, I am hoping to post photos for the een per dag audience and any others interested. As I am entering my MFA program at NYU for Writing - Fiction, there is a chance some drivel/magic might wind up on here. Really the goal is just to share some of the things that please me currently as we all seem to have less and less time to stay in touch.
Carry on comrades,
Kimberly
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