A few months ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Jacinda Russell when she was in town. We spoke about a project she’s been working on, called Nine Fake Cakes in Nine Bodies of Water. Inspired by Ed Ruscha (one of my personal heroes), Jacinda constructed nine artificial cakes, and is now traveling across the country to photograph them floating in bodies of water – swimming pools, lakes, rivers, etc. The entire journey has been documented on the blog. It’s a fantastic project, and well worth taking the time to dig through the archives.
Since our meeting in May, I have been finding postcards from Jacinda in my mailbox with photographs from the project. Here are some scans of the postcards Jacinda has been kind enough to send my way. When I received the first one, I had no idea she’d be sending more. I now have five in my possession, and can’t wait for more!
I am very pleased to announce that the Bozeman Survey Project is now online!
The website is probably my final contribution to the project, seeing as I will be off to bigger and better things in Tucson next month. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t have this idea a year ago; I would have loved to stick with it for a longer period of time. Such is life, I suppose.
I’m very excited to see this project grow and evolve!
It’s been a while since I’ve done a work of others post, so I thought I’d share City of Ambition by Ferit Kuyas (via EV+/-). These images seem to show an intersection of influence from Ed Burtynsky and Stephen Shore, which I love.
Kuyas’ other work is well worth browsing too, particularly aggloswiss and Archetypes.