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Category Archives: stacy oborn

influences and confluences

Monday, November 14, 2005

to have the knowledge that you seek a particular vein of something is to be aware of not only your tastes, but what influences you, creates bias and division, separates one set of concerns from another. connoisseurship, perhaps, but also a little bit of greek wisdom: to know why you are drawn to specific [...]

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the thing of the thing

Sunday, October 30, 2005

i bring this up not because i have become stymied and inconsistent in my writing due to the fact that i know someone is looking, but because i find it worth mentioning that when one hesitates in the face of their experiment, and then when something outside of that niched out, projected-place she created fundamentally shifts–say, a job, a relationship, a move or all three–the blog is the first thing to go.

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good things in threes

Sunday, November 28, 2004

three more for the gold-leaf album:

a few notes-to-self on future process:
*avoid 90# hotpress. it curls too much with the multiple layers of media, and often jams the copier.
*bristol board 2ply curls the least and has the easiest time in the copier, but we also like the radiant white of cold press. leave time [...]

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less talk, more looking

Sunday, September 19, 2004

the manner i’ve been looking, lately. and what i’ve been looking at.

birdholes, chattanooga, tennessee

century plant, backyard, savannah, georgia

the house next door used to be a strip club, savannah, georgia

dog person pic, atlanta, georgia

cat person pic (or, the cat that loves me who will not go away), savannah, georgia
i’d like to go back and tea [...]

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birds on the brain

Wednesday, July 28, 2004

so happenstance, structures and strategies began as an attempt to understand an artist that i had admired very deeply since i was introduced to his work. masao yamamoto is a japanese photographer that works quietly, quirkily, and, i’d like to believe, quite happily. his work fulfills many aesthetic “musts” for me: it is [...]

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