Last Summer

This is a portion the show I have up at Firestorm Cafe and Books, and before that at Eclipse Salon. Check it out if you are in the area. 

Dead Horse Bay

 

In the summer of 2009, we went exploring to the edges of Brooklyn. It took us a couple hours by bike and train, our destination was Dead Horse Bay which is also know as Bottle Beach. According to wikipedia, "during the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers built tide mills to grind wheat into flour. A remaining millstone can still be found along the Millstone trail. From the nineteenth century to the twentieth century the area has been used in a variety of ways, including manufacturing fertilizer from the remains of dead animals, producing fish oil from the menhaden caught in the bay, and more recently a landfill for the disposal of New York City’s garbage". We found soda and medicine bottles from the fifties, old shoe pieces from when there used to be a shoe factory, old boats, and a man who told us tales of the bay, as he had lived on the beach for years. 

Tableau Vivant of the Delirium Constructions

This past Saturday, the wonderful photographer, Sarah Small, invited me to photograph her nudes and cocktails birthday extravaganza, Tableau Vivant of the Delirium Constructions, held at Jewel Street Studios .

It was a party to remember, and I had a blast. Many of Sarah's prints hung on a wall overlooking the party, which looked beautiful, printed by the talented April Renae, of Dogleaf Studios.

As you can see above, there were incredible models, who not only satiated our voyeuristic cravings, but put on an amazing performance. They descended from the stairs about half way through the party, and took stage to hold poses where beautiful dynamics were frozen in time. Sarah then walked through and talked to the models, they would come to life and their interactions would change, and they would re-freeze.

It was art, theater, and fun.