yes, Our World Insideout's segment tonight on PBS's Channel 11 will be replaced by the breaking news of scott lee cohen. surprised, no; a bit embarrassed that i announced my last post – yes! however, i should know better, it's election time. it was exciting as a child when the presidential election landed on my birthday. who knows, perhaps because it brings people together. wonder what will happen to our new lieutenant governor?

this reminds me of something that has been swimming around in my head for the last three days. in fact, i had a conversation with an artist in NY regarding this last night. specifically that i'm often too honest to people's faces, or so excited at a possibility, opportunity, or outcome that i speak too soon (see above). i'm starting to really enjoy these 'hiccups' as i call them. there is always a time and place for telling one's story, and often i or the receiver is not in the right space to converse about said story (i'm talking about relationships now). life is too short not to appreciate each other for who they are, mistakes included – we are all fallible & learn quite a bit more from hard work, when things don't pan out quite the way we intended. 

i think that is why i'm drawn to the project Our World Insideout. There is an inherent relationship between the people that owned these homes, or the people that take them over (such as in brasil) to the people that are homeless right here in Chicago, or right here in your own city, to you and i who leave them empty. there is a relationship to the banks in our country to the world bank. i'm not just shooting places, i'm shooting a relationship that ties us all together. There is a vast garden of possibility waiting to blossom from this story. Some growth may be bad, some may be good – however, i'm starting to have a hard time filtering out the bad from the good, as these outcomes can foster further learning of one's self through the production and viewing of the work over time; this is a life project. and the production doesn't just include me. it includes all those people that have helped me through this project and are helping me to move it forward. 

t h a n k  y o u!

i suppose it should be no surprise : back in 2004, i stated that i was uncomfortable with the images i created for my thesis. until i understood why i created what i created, they would continue to haunt me. but that part doesn't really matter anymore. it's exciting actually….