time travel

Handmade love cards

2012-01-20T18:55:00.000-08:00

A lone tumbleweed dances through my blog...

Lately I've been posted at the kitchen table making some collage style handmade cards. My inspiration: a junior high love story after WWII. Spartan materials yet meaningful and pure. As usual, I do not want to part with them.

So far I have about twenty in this style and 20 in a smaller heart (flat) card style. I have a secret crush and I'm debating sending him one. What can I say? I'm a hopeless romantic.

I envision stacks of these tied with ribbon in a special box tucked away for years hopefully filled with lovely words.

These will be for sale locally very soon (if I can bear to let them go).

Love,
The Beauty Seeker

Haptics

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"Dark and dusty, painted on the sky"

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Deeper

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eleven eleven eleven

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uneven movements

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How can one be sure of the space in which to move?

Boundaries are invisible, yet we push through our breathing air.

Ripples and waves. Minutiae.

Who shall we dance with next? The tune determines the pace.

Some times my steps shuffle, amplified by gray slippers on wood floor.

I hear my elder self in the kitchen making tea--or, perhaps I'm just remembering myself as I am now. Some how.

Here we are.

All together.

Do you have the time?

odd postures

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Delicate and complicated.

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A gentle swell in the tides.

Briefly, I
glimmered.

· · · — — — · · ·

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ghost on an ancient ship

barnacles and all.

(she waves)

beneath the sea:

mermaids for mothers

and lovers lost,

that never said

goodbye.

Like you were there. With me.

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Sum of these parts.

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"And you have to go through a hundred different worlds yet..."

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The empty space that's always there.

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(Her) disappearing act for the 1,037th time.

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nucleus

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Like a motor idling halfway through my night.

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Was it a sound from the moon that woke me?

The yard is alive breathing silver light

Our cat growls at the darkness.

There's something up there,

Watching.

We're all born into the light.

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“Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.”

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Mr. Cody

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Way up north

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I, a stranger watching a stranger watching.

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wild as the wind

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I'm in love.

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oh joy, i seek you infinitely.

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Winchester

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88

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besos

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the end is near

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let's go

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the details. NYC

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vellum

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like a tea cup...

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"to see the way that light attaches to a girl..."

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small wonder

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Variations in the medium

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Tiny inclusions

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...

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convening

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gathering

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more or less

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one time
i remember
so early
in my room
with forested walls

i slept
(so early!)

you
had to go...

so,

into my neck, digging
like
a portal it was
or fossil
covered in silt

your straight nose
inhaled
viscerally
abyss-like-deep

i fell
down

an interval
or loop of time
so tender
that even in silence

i knew you more

earth, wind, water

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(

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our fingerprints never change.

i often think

of your furrowed brow

a deep laugh line

quieted

and quivering

ready to leap-turn

like a ballerina's

aching

arch

curved.

dragons

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making spaces

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Editorial

2011-05-09T09:05:00.000-07:00

A photo I took several years ago was used in a German magazine recently.

I called him Cornel West.

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I was just thinking about you today.

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Sand and a 45 second sun set.

2011-04-27T22:54:00.000-07:00

Beach and bearded man. Perfection.

I have another blog just for beards and my rule is to only post one photo. (I don't know why?!) So I'm basically cheating on that blog with this blog because I wanted to post more of mister tall drank. This, sadly, is my world.

Shrimp farm

2011-04-25T21:35:00.000-07:00

Recently did a shoot at a shrimp farm in Las Vegas. I learned some new things. I'm impressed with people that make cultured algae, water pumps and understand things I've never heard of before.

A year is a long time.

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Not so long. Just once around the sun.
-Gattaca

...

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Warm and snuggly

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Homegrown.

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Oh the places we could go.

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Dreams

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That's all fashion really is. A very pretty dream.

Eve 6

2011-04-12T22:40:00.000-07:00

Recently I shot some photos for a friend. I've known Jon Siebels for a few years now so it was a fun and easy shoot. All these guys are super down to earth and funny!

I showed up at the tail end of rehearsal, shoved earplugs in my ears and watched three long time friends get loud and sweaty. We wandered the streets trying to find decent light carrying a shopping bag of extra shirts.

I've always gravitated toward simple photo shoots. I love the ease and natural energy that flows. We talked about the differences between 1999 and now. The internet, digital and money. It's bizarre to be a part of this change. It's like we're in the last few chapters of The History of Photography.

I've been doing this professionally for about 10 years; started in the darkroom and now spend most of my time navigating FTP sites and external hard drives. These guys were on the other end of the lens posing with huge props, waiting for polaroids to be approved on the type of budget we'll never again see.

I find it disenchanting in a way, but also quite freeing. I'm not bound by rules anymore. There's no need to be judged by film emulsions and filed out negative carriers. I can make quiet images and share them with you. Here are these people. They were here.

With all that said, I miss the the smell of fixer, the lightless room with tape stuck to the floor and silence more than anything. There is magic lost on this page...who are you anyway? I can't even wipe your smudgy fingerprint off my contact sheet.

Julie!

2011-04-12T21:17:00.000-07:00

Another wonderful shoot on Saturday with one of the sweetest models I've worked with in a very long time. She even brought her adorable little dog, Momo.

final touches

hair flip

tricks of the trade

Simple

2011-04-08T01:16:00.000-07:00

Like these, we are
shapeshifting strangers
touching
fleetingly

I love my friends.

2011-04-06T19:22:00.000-07:00

Febrile

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Feeling juicy!

2011-03-30T14:41:00.000-07:00

YUM!! Homemade juice!

Besides being a beauty seeker with art, I'm also a beauty seeking chlorophyll loving, green smoothie creating and juice making lady.

Not only do I use all organic produce; I also bicyle to collect the produce from either the Farmer's Market or Whole Foods.

If you live in the Los Angeles area and would like me to make you some juice please contact me for more info.

New Work

2011-03-28T22:24:00.000-07:00

I've been working on these pieces for the past couple of years. They're my babies or an army of friends as Kiki Smith would say. I've decided to let them live their lives.

Images are available for purchase, rental or licensing.

Please contact me directly for more information.

Well Connected Gallery

rain drops

2011-03-23T19:47:00.000-07:00

love loud.

bigger and brighter

than a most memorable

dream

we are all light

held for a moment

inside

skin

young, then old

we glow

shiver and shake

pupils smile

let us just

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Is it summer yet?

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Ready for summer after the most recent look book shoot with Bella Dahl and the wonderful Chelsea! I'm already in love with all their linen pants.

origins

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beginning again

a continuation

maybe i'll finish

some

day

the vortex

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it felt good to be out of the rain...

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here comes the sun little darlin'

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REAL LIFE

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http://www.caporalebleicher.com/

This Saturday some of my photographs will be exhibited. Come give your eyes and brains a real life art adventure.
CAPORALE/BLEICHER GALLERY

GRAND OPENING NOV 6. 6:30-10:30PM

355 N LA BREA AVE, LA, CA 90036

everything's gonna be alright

2010-10-27T19:19:00.000-07:00

stuck in
regurgitated pile

cover of a cover
on satellite radio
photo of a photo
on computer screen

quick draw
faster trigger finger

right
click
click
click

quicksand
sinking
stinking
bile

past tense

2010-10-26T01:03:00.000-07:00

rollercoaster

on a sunken

battle

ship;

broken neon lights
under

crusted white piles

everything is salty.

transient

i am

floating between

yesterdays.

maybe The disease

memory

and dementia

cure.

i yearn for songs

that recall

nothing.

You left.

2010-10-18T19:54:00.000-07:00

And then, we never talked again.

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A city drowning in dreams. Let's leave.

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Pre-flight adjustments.

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if shorts could kill

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we'd be dead

father & daughters

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How it may end.

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...

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i'm missing some
times.

one day

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you'll know what i need.

bebe

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crema catalana

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tenacious

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i should learn a thing or two
from this plant.

cantering

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i mince your ribmeat

into a little pie

bake half a day

while we dance
floppy
like a hat.
one day we'll cringe
older than ever.

"what if life is a horse?"

well then,
the reins
are cutting
my palms.

warm spell

2010-09-26T21:50:00.000-07:00

lazy,
like old dogs
these last days

as if autumn
will never come

pristine fireplaces
wait.

life

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facts

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i was here.

rough

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intrigue me,
says the grown up girl.

take me to the moon
in a hot air balloon

i'll scrape my cheek on stars
just
to
feel.

these are the days

2010-09-16T20:13:00.000-07:00

hold on, dear life.

take care

2010-09-16T19:26:00.000-07:00

dead bees everywhere
summer's ending
earlier
in these late afternoons

i smell grills
on fire
frantically

while old ladies
sneeze in dusty attics
smiling
at their favorite sweater.

extant

2010-09-11T19:26:00.000-07:00