I’ve come back here
I knew my way this time
and I come to you because
the others were taken and
you excite and upset me
your contrasting shadows and
white features
your leather jacket
and painful ejaculation
you thrust forwards and I know
your 1/2 and 1/2 grey scaled neck
your new-born nose sprouting from
out of the blackness
two ghostly disks fall phantom
over your eyes your forehead
an unmarked page crisp and inviting
and just as intimidating
and your cheekbones
are perfect your lips
perfect your hand with
no distinction or detail is perfect
the light feels its way around your
cheeks and finds your ears
cowering crying and your white neck
my teeth in your white neck
your blue jeans have color and so do your
legs that I bow before intent
and all for Andy
and all for art and I know
and you know that this is real
your eyes for the first time
I see your eyes the way your
mother saw them and
the razor bumps on your neck
my teeth in your
porous and corrugated neck
the light unknowing and unintended
sweeps away the dark from your pupils
and shows me your pupils
you smoke striking
inhaling lazily
exhaling wondering
what this is
I continue
you are unattached
removed and bored
the bricks behind you crumbling
and raw show more
than your body tells me
lifeless and reactionless
and I paint you now like Andy
filmed you then but I see you
on my knees and I know
more than your mother knows
and I know more than
Andy knows but you know
less than all of us
you know what your wristwatch tells you
the unbiased light now
opens the floor in your hand
of dried valleys where the skin has
been folding for 24 years
and your forehead and cheek
bones perfect and saintly as the minutes
count down to seconds 16
15 a light flashes and white dots
replace you in my eyes
With the great help of Sarah Achor (Photographer, Artistic Consultant), Mathilda Longfellow (Artist and Performer) and Miharu Kato (Photographer) I am almost completed with my stop motion animated short film centering on the two sides of mathilda longfellow both as a confident bombshell and as a quirky boy. Over the past few weeks I’ve been to New York City for the hospitality motivation artists and Halloween, Cincinnati for the boys the dancing and the conversation and to Pittsburgh for the food the friends the dancing and here is some documentation of all of it.
Today I finished working on a short film set in Columbus, Ohio. The idea for the short came to me a few months back in April or May. Through the summer I slowly assembled a crew of people I’d met, seen in the community and found through craigslist. We started filming about a month or two ago and have finally finished. It took about 30 rolls of 35mm film and roughly 4-2hour days to shoot. I am so happy with my crew, Mathilda Longfellow, http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001610626056, Miharu Kato, http://www.miharukato.dphoto.com/ and Sarah Achor, http://www.sarahjeanfineart.com/. Now I have to get the music from cellist Kelly Quesada who is studying in Portland Oregon and I have to edit the photos together and the movie is pretty much done! So exciting. We are already planning the second short film and hope to have a few short films that we can compile into one longer film that may or may not represent something or some idea we’ll see. emphasis on art.
Here is another animation test reel with photos I’d taken during my August trip to San Diego with family.
I am currently working on turning this into a music video for the band Baths.