I sat behind the wheel, the map on the dashboard, following as they went door to door, collecting donations for the less fortunate. We did La Guignolée as a family this year. True winter was yet to appear…

This week I have less to say and more links to share. Snow is falling as I write these words and life somehow seems quieter. It’s the snow’s dampening effect to be sure, but it’s also the gradual yet steady receding of wailing sirens and incessant fury. A return of measured words over crazed diatribes, of discourse over ramblings. It’s a little like turning off the fan that’s been running in the background and suddenly hearing silence. There’s shock at first, quickly followed by that sense of immense, expanding space.

Like air filling the lungs.
Like...hope.

LINKS

DEFINITION 45 | Looks Like We Made It

We're fast approaching the end of our year-long DEFINITIONS project at KAGE. This week, our friend Derek Clark shares thoughts about what many of us have feared for most of 2020: the arrival of COVID-19 in his own home. A touching reflexion on life, loss and time.

Antwaun Sargent curates genre-defying photography exhibition in St. Louis

"Just Pictures’ seeks to disrupt the conventional constraints of photography, in favour of a non-prescriptive approach where formal definitions are defunct and approaches are fluid. "

I've never much cared for "genres" and "formal definitions" in photography. Where does the street end? What defines fashion, lifestyle or landscape? A pretty dress...mountains...buildings...they all coalesce in our field of view. The idea of segregating images according to content has always seemed artificial.

So yes to this exhibition—even if I'm not so sure genre-bending is such a revolutionary idea. The talent is obvious and the images are completely worth the detour.

More Than Two Decades After Her Death, the Great Singaporean-British Artist Kim Lim Is Finally Being Written Into Art History

Kim Lin's work fits with my current mood: the need for less but...better. The pursuit of form without the required burden of messaging. Which isn't to say that her work is superficial: not at all. I'm simply referencing how it makes me feel. I see quiet and beautiful moments that I don't want to question. More images and an interview with her son here.

Architecture: Size Matters - James Casebere

That first image caught my attention. I was reminded of Robert Adams' New West and its stark, "no-style" aethetics, transforming innocuous dwellings into landscapes worthy of The Martian Chronicles. Scenes from a lonely intemporal dustbowl.

But it also felt "off" somehow...because it is: Casebere constructs and photographs his own miniature dioramas. A kind of perfect way to escape our locked down world.

Symmetrical Typewriter Sculptures by Artist Jeremy Mayer Merge the Organic and Manufactured

I've written a few times about my newfound infatuation with typewriters—as industrial, era-defining objects as well as quasi-philosophical constructs. So I'm basically indulging here.

I'm just hoping no living typewriters were harmed in the process ;)

That’s it for this edition. Stay safe everyone—there is light up ahead. If you’re in the US have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day :)

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