Spent the afternoon/evening at Passim last night for their Summer Campfire series. Three and a half consecutive afternoons of back-to-back folk musicians and vegetarian food. Really no complaints. Shooting tomorrow afternoon as well.

Ryan Fitzsimmons and his guitar.

Found this yesterday. The Middle East isn’t great to shoot in, but this guy made it worth it.

Jamie Lynn Hard Band sometime last month.

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This is my father, and that is a chicken on my father’s back. I love my family a lot.

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Spent a couple days at my parents’ house. These dogs are my favorite ever.

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Somebody won a print of mine at a teacup auction.

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John L Bilotti

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Reverse-image searching some of my images after Kunertgate (what I’m calling it).

Apparently I’ve got some ties in CSI…

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So I graduated.

(Source: cmcintosh)

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I’ve got some new toools

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Beautiful setting this morning.

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Of the Flesh, Photographs and Drawings by Tara Sellios Solo Exhibition

Go to this. I’m honored to know someone of this talent, she is truly a unique figure in the art world. This opening will be fantastic.

Friday May 18 @ 5:30pm until 8:00pm

Gallery Kayafas, 37 Thayer @ 450 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118

Gallery Kayafas is pleased to present Tara Sellios’ first comprehensive exhibition of her photographs and drawings, Of the Flesh. Like many an early 17th century Dutch still life, Sellios’ photographs are formal compositions of sumptuous picked-over repasts — tables of shellfish and meats — table linens smeared with fluids, strewn with crumbs left from gluttonous exchanges and lavish banquets. Her large-scale, sometimes multi-paneled color photographs vibrate with realism. They are beautifully unsettling. They are raw. They are satiated. Life and Death inhabit the the same moment.

The photographs are intensely planned. Sellios draws out each still life before it is procured, arranged, and installed. Six of her drawings form the basis for her newest series, Impulses.

The butchered animals, whole and in parts (all which are available for our carnivorous diets) are presented in artful compositions — gracefully arranged, thoughtfully stacked, elegantly draped, sensually suggestive of the carnal as well as the carnage. You want to look away with a frisson of revulsion but you cannot avoid the fascination of looking at the detail — both beautiful and grotesque.

In the series, Seven Evil Thoughts, Untitled #3, Sellios’ table — white linen cloth with a blood red background — is overtly sexual in its content: eels squirm in and out of wine goblets, wines have dripped and saturated the cloth, shellfish and their juices are scattered around the bowl of eggs submerged in a red liquid. Blood or wine? You are left to ponder and interpret.

“I strive to create images that elegantly articulate the totality of existence, focusing heavily on the broad themes of life and death, with further emphasis placed on ideas of fragility, impermanence and carnality. Death has always possessed a significant presence within the history of art, ranging from altarpieces to the work of the Dutch still life painters. Manifesting melancholic themes with beauty and precision, as these artists did, results in an image that is seductive, forcing the viewer to look, despite its apparent grotesque and morbid nature. Through these images, I aspire to make apparent the restlessness of a life that is knowingly so temporary and vulnerable..” Tara Sellios 2011

Sellios graduated from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2010. She has been awarded an Artist Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a Curator’s prize at the Griffin Museum of Photography. Art New England Magazine named her one of New England’s “Seven Emerging Photographers”, and most recently she received an international award from Flash Forward 2011 by the Magenta Foundation in Toronto.