HeyJaredSundays with Stella
Processing life's moments through photography, collage and words - a creative practice as it happens.
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Wood, Wax, and Nerves (opens the original)
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Right before I began this current contract job, I finished a prototype for next year’s exhibit. I’m quite pleased and excited about how it turned out, given it’s my first foray into something I’d only ever thought about in my head. I researched different materials such as acrylic paints and gels, wood panels, and wax finishes, all of which were new to me. Despite the nerves, I allowed myself to enjoy the making of it and the grace when mistakes happened as I dove into unknown territory. I’ve mis
A Tiny Spark (opens the original)
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The 108 Muni bus from Treasure Island to downtown San Francisco was arriving in fifteen minutes. I tore through the house emptying pant pockets in the closet, opening drawers, scrounging for change while praying I could afford the bus fare. Today, I was lucky. I ran to the bus stop around the corner from my apartment and made it just as the bus pulled up. The breeze felt cool. From the window, blue skies and the city skyline on my right. Just a few rows in front of me, I noticed a monograph jutt
Ten Pictures, One Thread (opens the original)
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Sometimes, I photograph things merely for the sake of awe. Or is it beauty? I don’t quite know what to call it. It doesn’t matter if they’re droplets of white paint in a corner of the patio or the circular patterns forming from a boiling pot of water. It’s the noticing itself that gives me pleasure.In this set, I choose one element of the picture to inform the next. That, too, is a joy, the process of searching for what follows, finding connections as I go. Sometimes, I don’t know why they work.
On Turning Four (opens the original)
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Still Life (opens the original)
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The word “still life” popped up in my head yesterday morning. The way my brain works, I get curious, and I asked myself one question: where did the word originate as it relates to the visual arts? Down I went into a rabbit hole.Stilleven, a Dutch term meaning motionless model, appears in art dealers’ inventories in the Netherlands around 1650. In 18th-century France, they called it nature morte — dead nature. Prior to this, a French historiographer and secretary to the Academy named André Félibi
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