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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Pyrite?


While I was in South America, I of course noticed the historically proportional incidences of churches, nativity scenes, icons of holiday sentiment, and superstitious tradition indicative of the mass appeal Christianity still maintains in these post-Incan cultures. 
Working through my observations of the plasticization of pyrite, I make these.  



Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Monday, January 10, 2011

Christmas in Galapagos

its christmas in Pto Ayora. Young, t-shirted children deploy fireworks straight from their bellies, in front of the hospital, while you buy meat on a stick and corn. I photograph. Have to put it at waist level and click from my heart so they don't stop playing
the shops are so pink and every mannequin and plastic notion is crystal clear as roman statues and all point to one thing or another--reproduction or war.




fake moustaches

Well, Mondo didn't take the throne during the project runway finale, but he still managed to coalesce quite the following:















Saturday, November 13, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

holy apocalypse

as in, bitches love to dance.