Pacific Resonance

Martin Cox, my co-curator, and I and our terrific participating artists have created an excerpt of our presentation for our April MOPLA "Project LA, Part TWO" performance.



It will soon be on MOPLA's website. Of course, every image (and music) is copyrighted by the respective participating artist and the movie has a compilation copyright, ©Copyright Sara Jane Boyers & Martin Cox. Credits as follows:

PACIFIC RESONANCE, A MOPLA PRESENTATION
PRO'JEKT LA Part TWO
12 April 2011 Space 15TWENTY, Hollywood
Curated by Sara Jane Boyers & Martin Cox
Music Composed, Produced & Recorded by Michael Intriere
Photographic Artists:
Sara Jane Boyers
Martin Cox
Nicola Dill
Ann Mitchell
John Rosewall
Magnus Stark
Svjetlana Tepavcevic

We are thankful to everyone who came out that night and of course to the Month of Photography Los Angeles who believed in our more "conceptual" piece.

Sunset/747Wing House

The 747 Wing House is nearing completion and it's been a joy to be up there. Working with sunset glow and night impressions.









Tonight, up there with architectural photographer Douglas Hill. Cannot wait to see his shots! Here one or two of mine from tonight:

View from lower wing/studio roof.


Between the wings.

Pics From PACIFIC RESONANCE, MOPLA

It was a terrific night, something different for the LA photographic scene and MOPLA loved it. They want a short edit for their website. Lots of attendees during the two-hour loop of this 33 minute projection/performance.

We too were moved by viewing this on screen in this perfect little outdoor venue for between Michael Intriere's emotive cello performance and the very complex but often abstract imagery from all of our participating photographers, we (Martin Cox and I who co-curated) were delighted with the way all of this worked.

Thinking about where to next take it.

MOPLA: PRO'JEKT LA PART TWO: PACIFIC RESONANCE

Come join us Tuesday, 12 April between 7 & 10pm for an evening of meditative imagery and sound, the photographs alternating between manipulated abstraction and powerful intense focus into natural landscape and atmosphere. We love the concept of this quiet moment with Michael Intriere's emotive recorded cello composition, Seashore, playing along with our images, all being projected at Space 15Twenty, itself full of the reverberation of LA's dreams and surrounded by the lights and clatter (Amoeba Music!) of Hollywood.

PACIFIC RESONANCE is our show.
Exploring MOPLA's 2011 theme "Adaptations and Reverberations," Sara Jane Boyers and Martin Cox have curated a night of natural and composed abstraction, seen from a diverse set of photographic investigations by seven noted Los Angeles-based photographers observing light refraction, moisture, surface and depth, colour and light, permanence and impermanence, timelessness and elemental concerns, all relating conceptually to the landscape and emotion of Los Angeles itself.

Images will be projected in a public square, Hollywood's Space 15TWENTY, with a specially recorded musical component as part of MOPLA's annual projection series, Pro'jekt LA FROM 7 to 10pm - ADMISSION FREE with RSVP to ProjektLA2@monthofphotography.com

Musician Michael Intriere, (a stalwart of the Los Angeles avant-garde art and music scene since the late 1970s), has composed and recorded cello compositions; SEASHORE I and SEASHORE II, which will accompany the projected photography.

Exhibiting Photographers:
Sara Jane Boyers www.sarajaneboyersphoto.com
Martin Cox www.martincox.com
Nicola Dill www.nicoladill.com
Ann Mitchell www.ann-mitchell.com
John Rosewall http://www.johnrosewall.net
Magnus Stark www.magnusstark.com
Svjetlana Tepavcevic www.svjetlanat.com

MOPLA2012/PRO'JEKTLA PART TWO: PACIFIC RESONANCE: Tuesday, 12 April from 7 to 10, Space 15TWENTY, 1520 N. Cahuenga Boulevard, LA 90028 http://www.space15twenty.com/

April: Poetry Month

Poetry: The clarity of word and phrase. The reduction to powerful meaning and story contained in one gesture.

Poetry has affected my writing and my photography always. My first two books for youth were all about contemporary art and poetry.



So it is with pleasure that each year April brings us Poetry Month. As always, I am subscribed to Knopf's terrific "Poem A Day,"

This year, quite a few friends and children's writer colleagues are also doing their own poem-a-day or variation thereof. Cannot wait to be immersed in poetry for a whole month and wake up to these incredible moments! (Thanks to April Halprin Wayland for sending me to Kidlitosphere and her own compilation of this list).

Susan Taylor Brown will post Lessons Learned (Mostly About Me) in a Poem-a-Day at http://susanwrites.livejournal.com

April Halprin Wayland will be writing and posting an original poem a day during April.
http://www.aprilwayland.com/poetry/blog

Liz Garton Scanlon will give us her third year of a Haiku-a-Day every day in April!
http://liz-scanlon.livejournal.com/

Jone MacCulloch will post 30 Days-30 Students: A poem a day from students http://maclibrary.wordpress.com

A Poem A Day: A Personal Journey https://deowriter.wordpress.com/?ref=spelling

Poetry Postcard Project: Have a student written and decorated poem sent to your
home. Email her at macrush53 @yahoo. com.

Gregory K. will present 30 Poets/30 Days -a whole month of never-before-seen poems by a slew of fabulous poets writing for kids. http://gottabook.blogspot.com

Jama Rattigan will present her 2nd Annual Poetry Potluck (original poem and favorite recipe by guest bloggers) at http://jamarattigan.livejournal.com

Irene Latham will host a month-long Poetry Party: poetry quotes, trivia, craft tips, publishing resources & free books! http://irenelatham.blogspot.com

Andromeda Jazmon will be doing her fourth year in a row of haiga (original haiku + my photos) at A Wrung Sponge http://awrungsponge.blogspot.com.

Janelle at Brimful Curiosities will host a National Poetry Month Kids Poetry Challenge challenge in which kids are invited to create pictures for the poems she posts each Friday. For details: http://www.brimfulcuriosities.com/2011/03/kids-poetry-challenge-national-poetry.html

National Poetry Month Poetry Friday schedule:
a.. April 1 http://poemfarm.blogspot.com/
a.. April 8 http://www.madiganreads.com/
a.. April 15 http://randomnoodling.blogspot.com/
a.. April 22 http://bookaunt.blogspot.com/
a.. April 29 http://www.tabathayeatts.blogspot.com/

Chinese New Year: The Year of the Rabbit

Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Xīn Nián Kuài Lè!

Below is my annual greeting with images captured this year, last week in fact, at the Eve and beginning of the Chinese New Year/Spring Festival. This year started on February 3rd and the 15 day celebration ends with the Lantern Festival on February 17th. The year itself will end in January of 2012.

The photographs of this annual greeting are part of my long-term project, FINDING CHINATOWN, a study of Chinatowns in the United States and Canada. The project will have its first solo show this summer at the Craig Krull Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, CA.

Many cities throughout the world will be celebrating the New Year in many ways, from parades, firecrackers, and prayer at the many temples and shrines. Most importantly, the Chinese New Year is a time for families to be together and the migration home represents one of the largest annual migrations in the world.

We are blessed here in Los Angeles to be part of such a multi-cultural community and culture that our Chinese-American neighbors share with us so willinging and graciously.

Here is my greeting.

A Tree Falls In The Canyon

and everyone notices.