élépha

I. Display

II. Full view

III. Elephant detail

"élépha? un éléphant est...élépha-it's-gerald"

Black and light blue spray paint on found album art on canvas
Cambridge, MA
12 October, 2007

Seed Haiku

only certainty
of lasting preservation
is kept in your bones

Dakar, Sénégal
27 January, 2008

The Quintessential (Dark)

*Another version (at a lighter exposure) of this photo appeared in an earlier post

Cambridge, MA
June, 2007

Kose (Smoking Portrait)

*Thanks to B.D. Colen for suggestions on editing this photograph

Cambridge, MA
24, April 2008

(Portrait of) Michael, Smoking

Cambridge, MA
08 May, 2008

Lunette(s)

Cambridge, MA
24 April, 2008

Harvard Square T Stop, Aerial View

Taken from a Black Hawk helicopter


Cambridge, MA
18 April, 2008

On Celibacy

Kerouac's celibacy is funny - he has to grit his teeth and close his eyes to shove sex and women out of his mind. Morrissey, on the other hand, is pretty lax and doesn't have to try so hard.

It was Kerouac who said "pretty girls make graves," meaning that beauty leads to lust, which leads to sex, which leads to birth, which of course leads to death. Morrissey lifted the quote and used it to title a Smiths song, giving us more proof that Morrissey really likes the idea of celibacy.

Both, however, have gone back and forth defining celibacy as not marrying and not having sex, and both have gone through 'un-celibate' periods. Especially Kerouac. For more on this, refer to his 'wild sexballs' in the short novel Satori In Paris.

Further, check out the Morrissey track "November Spawned A Monster," where he sings about a crippled child who goes through life suffering in a wheelchair. He then calls the child a "symbol of where mad, mad lovers must pause and draw the line." Mad lovers gave birth to the child, who now has to suffer due to their uncontrollable lust.

Moz and Ti Jean were serious weirdos. Celibacy isn't that cool.

Shirtsleeves

Cambridge, MA
10 March, 2008