12

this is my 12th post for the 12th month.
it is also holly's 12th birthday today. happy birthday holly!


"will you recognize me when i'm 12?"

bloomfields

jayne, emily, mike and oliver

sneak peek:

some new stuff im working on...

car portraits

family.

i took some pictures of my friend emily and her family today. it was fun. they are the happiest people i know and i just get the best kind of energy being near them.


"1...2...3.....gruffalo!"

aylmer, qc

show and tell

im so excited about these. i took them back in june and just came across the film yesterday. photos are so much sweeter after having to wait to see them.

enjoy!

old room

this is the last picture i took of my old room. it served its purpose. and now im in a new (head) space altogether.

happy birthday nick

i took this birthday portrait of nick. he was born on the day of st.nicholas.

coming together

my show is in 3 more sleeps.

working on something.

rip jean burger

the infamous casse-croute on hwy 105 outside of wakefield burned down yesterday. i'll miss that place. unfortunately, i never took a picture.

all i have is this poutine review i did earlier this summer.
notice the thumbprint of gravy.

upcoming show.

picture 5

home

this place is really starting to feel like home.

aubrey

parents

my mother married jim dent on october 2nd, 2010

family portrait

i'm working on some family photos.

Tony's Chip Wagon

We have a winner!! The poutine challenge of this summer has come to a finish and the winner is Tony's Chip Wagon in Richmond.

loved all the poutine...mmmmmm...
and the hangouts.

a domestic woman

Artist Statement
Jennifer Stewart


self portraits put me in front of my camera. where there is room for chance. i can't predict how it will turn out. what i love about doing self portraits is that they are completely honest. the photographs are records of my most private moments.

taking a portrait of someone else puts me behind my camera in a completely different experience. i am deliberate and careful. i am not surprised. this portrait has been living in my box of negatives, hiding. i had this unsettling feeling when i looked at it. it's staged, out of context. it felt forced.

i'm looking at it now in a different light. this is a self portrait. there is a detachment, a loneliness, a strength.

"a domestic woman" is me.

family picnic

taken by gramps. circa 1955


(my dad is the one eating watermelon,
my grandmother beside him in the white blouse)

Jane

Jane, 2008
bleached silver gelatin print

show and tell: photo edition

yesterday was my birthday and i asked my friends to bring over 1 photograph each for show and tell. this was mine:




this is a picture of my cottage, which was built by my grandfather. it was taken around 1973 by my mother Judy. i chose it because i love fall, my family and trees.


happy fall!

clothes on, clothes off

these images were taken one after another, one day apart.
the identical posing was unintentional.

nfld.

I'm going through my videos/images from newfoundland right now. I'm putting together a slideshow for the Slideluck Potshow as part of Festival X. it will premiere Sat Oct 2nd. (www.festivalx.ca)

Festival X

Come to see my piece in Festival X!!

Vernissage: Sept 24, 5pm to 9pm
Red Wall Gallery at SPAO
168 rue Dalhousie Street, Bruyère/Dalhousie

www.festivalx.ca



title: domestic woman
model: Meredith Jay

self-timer mishap

...

i love you summer

bed

me sneaking pictures in my friends' beds.

bride 1, bride 2

reinterpreting spaces

this is my aunt shawn. she is a landscape painter and while i was staying with her and my uncle in Cow Head, she brought me to some of her paintings. this shot is taken at a place called tablepoint.

William Henry Stewart

November 29th, 1923 to August 12th, 2010

I will love you forever Gramps.

nfld.

i've been doing audio recordings of all my self portraits lately. here is one from one of the first shoots I had on my trip to nfld.



enjoy

...

mom:

"perception is everything in todays society.
people think im smart,
people think im strong,
people think i'm alot of things
....that im not really."

skull.

this is a skull i found at tablepoint in newfoundland

...

"I suffer from my own multiplicity."
Margaret atwood

collective sense of self

these self portraits are very similar to another local artist's self portrait. if you know who you are......let me know.


im really interested in the collaboration between artists. whether intentional or unintentional, the resulting work speaks to some sort of "collective sense of self" (mr.schreier)