@desertreak, and @silverwilddesign 2023
For various reasons mortality influenced a lot of the work I made in 2023, at times I planned shoots unrelated to just to give myself a break. But everything was leading up to this shoot. The concept of what gets left behind on earth was very present in my mind. I think the first element I knew I needed was the cholla skeleton, then I thought how interesting it would be to pair that with seashells from the Salish Sea, the tulle was a textural choice that was rooted in funeral veils. But those are just objects, @desertfreak and @silverwilddesign were the final piece to this project, they were more than what you see in the images, they were true collaborators helping build this entire concept.
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Untitled.
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An old Sonoran adobe house in Barrio Libre, Tucson, Arizona.
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35mm Lightning, Tucson, Arizona 2011. Tea toned gelatin silver print
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Black vulture on a man made agave stalk at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
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After sunset, the bobcat (Lynx rufus) woke up, walked out followed by rolling on the ground and stretching. Then it walked right up to me, just to the other side of the hedge between us, and peeked through it at me, too close for photos. Sweetwater Wetlands, Tucson, Arizona, USA. 24 January 2019. COTH
By Paule Hjertaas
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The stillness of the night
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Spanish Trail Motel
Lost Highway series
Hasselblad 500c/m
Kodak Ektar 100iso
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Tucson Botanical Garden, Arizona
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St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans, 2022 on the occasion of my 39th birthday.
Today I turn 40. I certainly don’t feel 40, or maybe I do. I know don’t feel as old as I thought my parents were when they turned 40. I’m genuinely not sure how I feel about this birthday, 39 kinda sucked, I felt kinda shitty most of this past year mostly stemming from a pretty late discovery that I have a wheat allergy. I never understood what exactly people with chronic illnesses meant when they talked about the depression they suffered as a result of their illness, after this year I certainly do. At least I can say that I was never alone… literally because as it turns out I’ve also been living with a parasite, maybe still, only time and medication will tell. Last year I visited New Orleans for the first time for my brothers wedding, the next day on my birthday I took a cemetery tour. It was really just happenstance that I found myself here on my birthday, but I have been thinking a lot about mortality in my work recently so maybe it wasn’t such a coincidence.
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Mexican fire barrel. At Tohono Chul, Tucson, Arizona.
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Along Meyer Ave. in the El Presidio neighborhood, Tucson, Arizona.
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Untitled gelatin silver print collage. 16 samples taken from discarded prints. 3.75” x 3.75”
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