scary faery ...... 28 hours

... faeries arent necessarily "nice" you know .....

and this one is particularly bad tempered and wicked

he joined me on my latest seven league boots leaps

...you never can tell what mood he will be in but

he has flown a very very long way in a very very short time

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3 am get up ...

Reno ........... fasten seat belt

Nevada ..... high mountain desert

Las Vegas... (a nice lady helped me with the shooting... )

buckle up in Vegas

flit around in San francisco.... but dont get caught

ahhhhhh green (still SF)

back on the plane ...erghhhhh need food now!

feeling pretty tragic in Frankfurt...

until.... ahhh breakfast time again ...at 2am...luvely

but when you get to Italy ..it's all worth it ...............

roast tomatoes from Etna... mozzarella di buffala from Capua

basil from Toscana... balsamico from Modena...and oil from Puglia ...

...caspita....

faery food

home sweet home

scary faery was handmade by the very brilliant and constantly ALIVE Ingermaaike for me ...his job is to bring good fortune and lucky-ness where-ever "we" go .....

I really like him .... despite his kranky bad disposition....

he does make me laugh.............

ghost girl

a long time ago
in a land far far away ...
there grew an obsession ...
for abandoned houses
and ghostly presences



"ghost girl" were my first ever published abandoned house shots ... they were shot about 15 years ago, on 5x4 inch infrared black and white sheet film ... not easy stuff to deal with ... film that has to be loaded by hand in a dark bag on location...

film which is affected not only by light and chemistry but also by heat (hence the fingerprints)






these images will be shown by the Arthaus66 gallery New Mexico.
10 x 12 inch prints in an edition of 10 each...

they are to be printed on the most luxurious Japanese black and white paper that is so matte you cannot see where it begins and ends .... zero reflectance ... it's wonderful stuff ...like the Yves Klein torso of Venus ...matte blue that fools the eye and makes spatial distance recognition impossible ...
(she most certainly wasn't in a case when I saw her ,.... I guess too many people just had to try and touch her ...)

hmmmmmmmmmm...............something something... something ...the dark side