Practical Approaches to Impractical Struggles: Human Rights, Sexual Rights, and Queer Rights in a Global Context

The Mexican Ghost

Apathetic Family

S.K.A.T.E.

Similar to the objects of decay that come to rest in many of the locations I explore, skaters are generally disregarded and overlooked in society, but if you spend enough time with them, you get to know the human side of something with a rough exterior.

El Gran Jefeton

Behind Bars 2

Behind Bars 1

Por La Barrera

This collection of images focuses on moving closer to home, youth and a sense of playfulness, while still relating them with the decay that can be found surrounding it. There is a spectrum that can be seen within this life cycle, beginning with falling to the ground. The objects are dropped then submitted to the elements, and slowly age into the surroundings, sometimes re-disposed of, bulldozed into piles, crushed and twisted further. Here I have tried to view the space more broadly, from the residence around it, to the piles in it where the objects come to accumulate.

When You Are Feelin' Down

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child.
The righteousness can’t overcome the raw
Feeling of defeat.

Somewhere out in the ocean, there sinks a man
With only a family as the stitches at his seams.
But I am not him.

Soft like a plank of pine in a stack

Ready to be ripped down

I await a thin exposure.

This man I know has taken me in

Inside his home, a small cube filled with his memory.

But he erases himself over and over again until he can’t remember.

Acting a symptom of pain locked away

He rolls over with the hope of a darkness to sleep under

As if the sun would make a scar.

I could tell you what to do

But would you do it sincerely?

Do not listen.

Cobbosee Multi

Houdinied Hemingway - Regalo

Desguaces a poco

This collection of images pursues the space between terminal decay, and reuse. Junkyards serve as a layer cake graveyard for our machines and objects, sometimes ending up pulverized into the rusty soil beneath them, other times picked down to their skeletons. In these images I am looking for the groping edge of life that these objects balance on.

Self Portrait 10.12.2011

Auto Hamboni

Renacer por nadie - digital color

This collection of images is intended as a turn towards color as a source of revitalization. Conversion to black and white seems to add to the death of these objects and focus on their state of decay. In searching for their colors I have found a sense of life that certain objects retain, as if a bright refusal to decay, or at times a subtle natural gray scale amongst a chaotic background. The colors speak also to a specific design or period of the object’s birth, placing it in time, that of a more present, or recent past.

Janelle Monae Clark Concert Photos