thinking

how time moves
like a bat
between trees.










the river seine. a snapshot taken when I wandered paris alone as a teenager.
it seems like a moment from another life.

our lives

I've always had a secret fascination with photojournalism.

I don't think I'm very good at it, but I like to try.

I started photographing protests with my 35mm film camera in high school when I attended the large anti-war protests in Portland. This past weekend I ventured out to the March for Our Lives in downtown LA. More photos on my instagram. 

layers

iphone collage no. 1

on top
on top
above

let it all
blend in.

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making collages on my phone while I lay in bed.
my brain turned toward what has never been.
I've wanted I've wanted I want--
but desire is the 8 of wands,
arrows lost in the dark

pieces

"the body on the side of the road was a metaphor."

mexico city portrait.

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I'm writing a novel & that's the opening line.
poems seem far away by prose is harder.
prose is solid lines.
poems are fogs gathering in valleys.

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some blogging about mexico city.

"I am a mixture."

- Frida Kahlo.

mixture
late middle english
from latin

how many parts
can make you
up.

weekends

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Went to the getty to see some concrete poems.

documenting mess

thinking about spaces, & where we make. 

the clutter, the grime, feels like home. 

how else can I fit everything in?

making it

Excited to be working in pre-production again on a short film project I've written & am slated to direct & star in!

For a while I've been thinking about making videos for poems in the way we have music videos for songs. After a lot of pacing & deliberation I wrote a script based on a poem from my graduate thesis & am in the thick of pre-production! Storyboards done! I'm meeting with my talented friend, & the DP of 4B, Freddy Tang to talk logistics. We're gearing up to shoot mid-October! It's going to be quite the little adventure, a road trip out to location, & a hot summer day, but I think we can make something really rad.

living in post production

thinking back on our time shooting my directorial debut short film now that I'm totally embroiled in post production. 

more behind the scenes photos on my website.

up the mountain

spent the afternoon climbing around griffith park & mount hollywood. blue skies as far as the eye could see.

a little altar space set up on mount hollywood.

the observatory & LA from mount hollywood.

trees

weekly griffith park wanderings...

I like these trees, the way they curl & crawl
toward the sun.

letter, early 2000's (?)

looking through old art projects & journals

surfing the #artjournal tag on instagram

ingesting

inspiration

to keep moving

 

concretes

emotion regulation handout 6, cut & woven paper, 2015.

writing is ruthlessly cutting out things your spent hours fashioning from nothing.

here is a concrete poem I cut from my graduate thesis last week. 

mindful climbing

"Mindfulness is a state of active, open attention on the present. When you're mindful, you observe your thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad. Instead of letting your life pass you by, mindfulness means living in the moment and awakening to experience." -Psychology Today







hiking among trees
rustling in hot wind
with dirt folding
into the bends of my arms &
behind my knees
I feel the muscles 
of my thighs 
chanting
rise, rise, rise

headshots

getting going.

getting the ball rolling.

 

new headshots & a photo gallery are added to my website.

showcase

Tuesday I performed in the showcase for the acting class I've been taking at Andrew Wood Acting Studio in Hollywood. Had a lot of fun learning with these rad people & can't wait to work with them again!

most of the gang.

this is the best facial expression I've ever had.

out to salvation

drove into the desert

left an offering for the universe. 

more photos on instagram.

hills + trees

weekly hiking adventures through griffith park...