mom studio portrait (2008)

mom studio portrait (2008)
Originally uploaded by halobrien

Studio portrait done of my Mom before she received "Person of the Month" from the Laguna Woods Historical Society, June 2008. There are many artifacts in the scan that look like dust -- they're not, the photo is "textured", and those are irregularities in the surface (probably designed to screw up scans like this one).

"If your love were taken from me..."

Suzanne Vega has a blog post up at the New York Times. It's titled, "Surviving the Hits," and talks most about "Luka," with "Tom's Diner" held in reserve for later.

Here's the comment I just submitted (moderated, so it may never see the light of day save here):

*^*^*

Those may be your "hits," but I've always liked your body of work overall.

The sheer playful chutzpah of opening a debut album with the lines:

"It's a one time thing
It just happens a lot
Walk with me
And we will see what we have got..."

Or the image, thrown upon the page (what Pound terms “phanopoeia” (a “casting. of images upon the visual imagination”))...

"All dressed in lace like the foam from the sea..."

That still haunts me. As a photographer, I've thought about getting the right model and the right beach and trying to create it.

Or, more recently, "Caramel," or "World Before Columbus."

Truly... More people should know of the scope of your work.