The Twilight Report

rt: new mexico

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:38:00 GMT

I lived in Santa Fe for about a year in the third grade. I don't have fond memories of going to school there, and I can't remember any of the kids or teachers at the school. I suspect that this is because I have managed to block them all out. Still, it was in art class there that I learned to appreciate my favourite painter, Georgia O'Keefe. The main thing that we have in common is that we both love northern New Mexico. In the Chicago Institute of Art this weekend I was listening to the recorded audio tour tell me about a painting she had done of New York City before, as the audio tour put it, she went to New Mexico and became the artist that we all think of as Georgia O'Keefe. The painting in question is less of New York itself, and more of the light behind a building obliterating a dark tall monolith. It is a painting of the city but like much of her work it is organic. I've seen paintings like this of hers before in books. I may have even seen this painting years before and forgotten the details. It's interesting and thrilling to experience an artist before she becomes that artist everyone “knows” she is, even in retrospect. I know her style and I seek comfort in it, even when she paints New York instead of New Mexico.

I turned the corner and saw across the hallway two iconic paintings of hers from her New Mexico years and I gasp a little. Even after all these years I can see her work and feel everything that I feel about New Mexico in an instant. It is a complicated feeling, with many dimensions and thoughts attached, but I think the one with the largest magnitude is homesick. When I left New Mexico in 2000 to find my fortune, I could not get out of the state soon enough. I wanted to see the world (and I am not sorry that I did), but now I think if I could arrange it, the land of enchantment is amongst the few places in the world that I would hesitate to move back to permanently.

(some of her paintings)

diner

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:30:00 GMT

nm moments

Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:23:00 GMT

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new mexico fragments

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:17:00 GMT

Flying back to EWR via ATL as I type this. The land in New Mexico was enchanting :)

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clouds

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:26:00 GMT

mystery slides

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:53:00 GMT

I am not sure who took these. They were mixed in with grandpa's slides, but I am pretty sure they aren't his. They are of New Mexico, I can tell because the bridge (see below) is adorned with the Zia sun symbol, and besides it looks like New Mexico. The film itself is a bit of a mystery, as it is a format that I don't recognize. It is about the size of 35mm film, but there are no sprocket holes so the exposure surface is actually taller than an orginary 35mm frame, but it is also a square format, so it is not as wide.

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old photos 62-86 / july 1983

Sun, 11 May 2008 19:25:00 GMT

Grandpa's photos July 1983.

Bandelier
Santa Fe
[illegible] Springs
Pikes Peak

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we never talk anymore

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:24:00 GMT

internet i’m bored of you; we never talk anymore i miss you black and white; and my time in the darkroom i never was very good at being blunt i like how history is always repeating itself, except for the nice parts; the future always seems like a cut down discounted version of something you once remembered i hate missing people no longer with us i’ve forgotten more than you will ever know, but do you remember more than i’ve remembered? i am moving to wyoming; yes really! i hate MySQL, but if everything were postgres, it would be pretty boring arguing about it i tasted lime in my drink tonight; it reminded me of someone special new mexico will never be the same; before or after product launch next monday; should be a grand crash

fence

Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:14:00 GMT

Ghost Ranch area, New Mexico

rocks

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:43:00 GMT

northern New Mexico

more ruins

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:51:00 GMT

Chaco, New Mexico

sunset cactus

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:20:00 GMT

White Rock, New Mexico

harry’s mudd

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:24:00 GMT

Ghost Ranch, New Mexico

alien rocks

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:19:00 GMT

northern New Mexico

shaky

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:01:00 GMT

Santa Fe, New Mexico

alone.ness

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:33:00 GMT

Chaco, New Mexico

precious water

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:01:00 GMT

Pecos River, New Mexico

mem.o.ra.bil.ia

Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:38:00 GMT

from the 2007 New Mexican expedition

ladder cliché

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:26:00 GMT

Mr. Killer Phrog

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 03:14:00 GMT

Land of Enchantment, August 2007