Shed Skins
Some of you may have heard that I was working on a project called WAKE. As I was weighing out whether or not I could do it, I sat down with myself to pour back through my transition through my self portraits from the past 10 years. I built myself a time machine, to go back and talk with Bridgett.I've come to the decision to not do the WAKE project at this time. I have a bevy of reasons for this, but first and foremost is my physical and mental health. I can not do a project at this time that involves acknowledging the "death" of Bridgett when I myself am being very acutely aware of my mortality.That said, this thing I have in my hands is beautiful. Ming asked, when she saw it, if she could have one. I have decided that it is good to have it go out... but not pushed hard. This is too intimate, too fresh, too raw.But art needs an audience, I need an audience to reflect. Thus, I give it to all of you. If you want to pass it on to others (the book or the link to buy one), feel free. It is my own gift... or to quote the intro to the book:"I acknowledge that every day I shed another skin, and every picture I take is a skin from my past, a telephone line through time to get back to who and where I was before. I have shed my skin and yet collect them, preserve them. so that perhaps I, and other snakes that look in, might remember."You are my tribe of snakes, shedding your own skins. Perhaps my own look in and back might help you. The preview on Blurb has been made not x-rated... but the book has explicit images in it and more.The back cover reads:This book is more than a book.It is a time traveling device, a fetish object, a tool of memory transmission.It is art and history and a window in and through.Journey at your own risk.Inside are the shed skins, the lives lives, the ten year glimpse of one anthology of a life. From female to male, through relationships, identities, passions, fears, disappointment, bliss, love and joy. Skins pressed between pages, preserved, and changed in the viewing. Open with an open heart and leave changed. What skins have you shed?