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this is the lovely missmimesis, who, as luck would have it, is relocating for the year to Germany, across the border from my soon-to-be-home, approximately two hours away.







and these are just a few from the backlog, from an abandoned training school for mentally retarded children.

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I love this photo series

the ones I like the best (which is like half of them!)

"winterfield"--this makes me thing of the final shot of "The Seventh Seal" if it was converted into the dimensions and proportions in which my dreams take place. It also makes me think of 99 Luft Balloons.

"gray dawn" reminds me of that painting, the name of which I can't remember right now, but it's of a dead young man with red hair in blue pantalones (who poisoned himself?) on a bed by a window. The painting is at the Tate Gallery, it's also a cover art for a novel I really like, "Chatterton" by Peter Ackroyd (thoroughbass--did I ever lend that to you? I can't remember, and if you haven't read it, you'd like it).

"mourning cloak" is probably the most derivative of these, and "stolen summer" is the least subtle, but I cannot resist anything with butterfiles any less than I can resist all things celestial and star-related.

"wound" and "interlude" both seam like lost shots from Tarkovsky's "Stalker"


"airway" makes me think of--I think it's a passage in Oryx and Crake? Or some other dystopian novel--of a misanthropic character saying that eventually the planet will be optimized in such a way that everyone will just be perpetually walking through tunnels, and their excrement will be turned into food, and that food will be delivered to them as they kept moving, and it would be the last closed ecosystem...hmm, maybe it wasn't Oryx and Crake..anyone remember where it's from?

"burn season" reminds me of Magritte's gentlement and also the cover of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here"

"earth coat," as theophile said when I was showing these to him, could be a Tom Waits album cover.

"passage" is like a parable and also like a Van Allsburg illustration