Thirteen months ago I posted a long distance letter to an acquaintance in St. Petersburg; two days ago six cloaked men arrived at my door to inform me that I'd been his closest relation they could find, and handed me his revolver and a dog's tooth.

Surreptitiously ended up on a transatlantic voyage with my second-stepcousin who is hopelessly in love with me for reasons I will never understand and another passenger has thrown themselves into the night seas of Gibraltar...

hired to write the funeral invitation calligraphy for a young man who died after a duel and his distant cousin claims that he'd witnessed him walking on air when they were boys one summer in the countryside

Purified in the cleanse of high fever my mind temporarily attains clairvoyance and I witness my cousin buying me a jumbo eraser for Christmas.

meanwhile I'm out here as an intern at the newspaper that just got firebombed and my mentor the crossword puzzle guy got hurt and has decided in his half madness that the spirit of the burned possess him...

Moth flapping around a tanning salon

The haters (cars) can't stand to see me winning (walking on the crosswalk). Didn't even get a cool bruise out of the scuffle.

patiently explaining to the child psychologist that I prefer the white pencil because it allows me to draw without fear of corrupting my artistic vision

Forgot I had bluesky!! Please listen to my pal and vote for me!! #photography #largeformatphotography #ilford

getting held at gunpoint in Biarritz by a drunkard who tells me to face the wall but I kindly explain, hand over my heart, that, being in the middle of the street, there is no wall for me to turn to, just to discover that he's fallen asleep in the Spanish twilight...

meanwhile I'm out here in a new town working at a department store and I just met my boss's wife who decided to hire me to kill him so we could run off with his riches to a beachside villa in Spain but when the time comes I actually shoot his imitation-flesh automaton instead of him...

This feels genuinely evil

Art!

I have acquired the rare skill of butterfly catching with my bare hands. Little lady was frightened but unharmed and I let her go after this photo

I've named this fellow Simone

maybe the only good use for photography is butterflies...

Every single field of study is at most two degrees removed from botany I think

Hemileuca hera hera

Visited UBC's entomology department yesterday and they let me browse the stacks! An unbelievable privilege and a deliriously happy experience to go through the lepidoptera specimens.

getting really into paper cranes

Commissioned for an album cover

Stitched up all my Levi's that had fallen apart within a year - sold them for a bit of cash. Bought a single pair of nice high-quality jeans. If these fall apart I'm swearing off jeans for life.

@drosophili.ac I think your dog is sick

Airports make me kinda misanthropic

Claw

Wet-scanned emulsion lift

White glove and face #polaroid #altprocess

I think I need to start a dictionary of words I like

Emulsion lifts on color 4x5

Boston is a cool city I think

Objet

Genuinely want to go to grad school in the US but there's so much fear for my future as a queer person

4x5 image of unspecified powder

Learning to treat the mounting/finishing process as an artistic tool. Two instant-film pieces, and two more shallows

I stand by my words.

Successfully photographed an emulsion lift on 4x5 - detail is incredible.

Second cousin Gort passed in the war but I managed to make a homunculus and placed his soul inside

Every time I pick up a Nabokov book I remember that he's the best writer of the 20th century by a wide margin it's crazy.

It's cold. I'm cold.

So I think I have a project name for the recent experiments: Shallows.

Proper documentation of the experiments so far

Four of them.

Three of them.

Two of them

Sent follow-up emails with questions following MFA interviews and now I'm stressing about that. No idea what the turnaround for that sort of thing is.

Finished the piece - doesn't have a name yet, but pretty happy with it. Really love the depth + parallax of the underlying image #photography

Sacrilege today in the studio