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Coming from Wichita, Kansas, I had a pretty limited scope of what dance was. There were the classical pas deux that I learned way before I was ready to be lifting humans and it kind of ended there. Shortly after I began classes, Wichita State University presented a solo show by Alwin Nikolais. It was…
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Published originally Nov 15, 2016 Day 11 – Taking a break feels like wearing a suit on Sunday with a thick coating of starch grabbing hold of each wool fiber and squeezing tight. A highway system of hay and wire. It is someone sitting on your chest. I’ve got a happy mind when there’s a…
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Originally published November 2, 2016 Photographers are Creepy Day 9 – Justin West is late because he keeps getting ideas for styling our shoot along the cab ride there. We’ve been talking about how to best utilize Andrea’s collection of oddities and taxidermy and it’s amazing to be working with a model who wants to…
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Originally posted Oct 26, 2016 The background is not in the background. Day 8 – I have two beautiful, stationary days of shooting on location at my friend Andrea’s, where I also happen to be staying now. After tumbling the river both blissfully and ravaged, I am given an eddy to fill myself with air…
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Friday the 13th. Day 6 – There is nothing more comforting and expansive than the feeling of artistic “flow”. To feel that you have stepped to the side to let the energy that runs the universe ricochet in a perfect ping-pong from out of your body and every conclusion feels new and feels right. There…
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Two shoots in one day. Day 5 – I was once with a strange friend, hanging out by a river outside of Portland. We had just spent an uncomfortable day with nothing to talk about, staring at the shallow rapids and climbing boulders in the stream. Suddenly, without warning, he laid back in the water…
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