A.BOUT
Katie
(desire to fill)
The dim of the cinema, the chaos underground, a dear friend's embrace.
A spark, superboiling, emits chiaroscuro glow.
The ebullience of reality.
Aristotle did not sufficiently define κάθαρσις
neither has anyone else
Inspire.gracious. mess
Whether I am capturing the work of an artist producing collaborative portraits, or finding some obscure layer of reality to express how I feel in a concentration camp, my lens, my life; my camera, my guide. I am profoundly grateful for the energy that has brought me here.
all opposites combine; then, therefore, the choice is yours and mine
to make, in our selection of paramount heresies, to embrace a soul.
Photo.graphy
My tender and sincere affections revolved around as many storytelling and imagemaking mechanisms as I could find.
With photography, I embarked on a lifelong journey:
harnessing the power and brilliance of light, and beyond that, to understand. To take light as its own image.
Not merely in the minutiae of technicalities, or the curiosities of optics, but in the spiritual, deep, and vital qualities that suffuse its manifest forms.
To bring: into being
This is a still capture of the precise moment I purchased my first SLR camera.
Published Work
Writings on cinema and gnosticism, sex, antifascism, metaphysics, anarchism, ad infinitum.
Occupy Wall Street. New Orleans, LA. 2011.
Slutwalk. New Orleans, LA. 2013.
Stand with Standing Rock. New Orleans, LA. 2016.
Black Lives Matter. Baton Rouge, LA. 2016.
Black Lives Matter. Durham, NC. 2020.
StopMVP. Sweet Springs, WV. 2023.
Free Palestine. Washington, D.C. 2023.