Zoe Strauss

Don't Miss These Billboards

2012-02-01T14:35:00.001-05:00

DON'T MISS THESE.

2012-02-01T14:14:00.001-05:00

Hey! Anyone with a lot of knowledege of Mississippi Delta Blues, specifically Robert Johnson and knowledge about Bessie Smith, up for hosting a conversation about the Blues in the next month or so?

Hit me up at info (at) zoestrauss (dot) com!

Thanks!

Five Ways to Support Women's Health for All

2012-02-01T11:48:00.001-05:00

2012-02-01T11:44:00.001-05:00

2012-02-01T10:24:00.001-05:00

Thank you to Steve Earle for coming and talking at the Art Museum and for just being so great.

Cosmo Baker at the PMA

2012-01-31T15:53:00.000-05:00

Friday, February 3, 2012 at 5:00 PM

Enjoy a night dedicated to Philadelphia music with celebrated DJ Cosmo Baker, who blends hip-hop, disco, rock, funk, and reggae while staying true to his Philadelphia roots. Now based in Brooklyn, he helped found The Rub, an internationally known DJ/remix collective.

Free after admission to the museum.

NO ONE SHOULD MISS THIS!

2012-01-31T15:44:00.003-05:00

Yes. Yes, it was like this.

2012-01-31T12:25:00.001-05:00

At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, there is free admission for local art students. People do not necessarily need IDs, they just need some piece of paper that says they go any one of the local schools. This includes Fleisher, which I don't believe issues IDs, but I could be wrong about that.

El Hatch

2012-01-31T12:25:00.000-05:00

Photo by Thomas Devaney

2012-01-29T17:39:00.001-05:00

I love Steve Earle and encourage everyone everywhere to buy all of his CD and books.

Ain't No Stopping Us Now

2012-01-28T09:20:00.001-05:00

Dear Friends,

I think this Steve Earle event is golng to be amazing. I can't wait to hear what he's going to say.

Steve Earle in conversation with Zoe Strauss

Saturday, January 28, 2012

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Location: Van Pelt Auditorium

Free tickets required after Museum admission

First come, first seats.

And plan to be at the museum on this date too…

Philadelphia Dance Party with DJ Cosmo Baker (AKA MY BROTHER!)

Friday, February 3, 2012

5:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.

Free after admission

Hope to see you all tomorrow.

With Love,
ZS

Events!
Scroll down for all of them

Upcoming 10 Years Events
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/745.html?page=5&events=1

http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/745.html?page=5&events=1

Billboard Project

http://zoestraussbillboardproject.com/

Photos from Megawords Photo Booth at the Opening of 10 Years
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.345927552084744.93320.203646952979472&type=1

http://zoestrauss.blogspot.com/
https://twitter.com/#!/zoestrauss
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/745.html?page=1

Editorial mirrors the Heretical Society essay 'No More Ugly Murals' by Michael Macfeat

2012-01-26T16:58:00.002-05:00

History Will Absove Mike

and

Wile E Coyote
Genius

2012-01-23T15:03:00.000-05:00

2012-01-23T14:44:00.004-05:00

2012-01-23T12:44:00.001-05:00

For King Britt and Tony Thomas

2012-01-21T21:10:00.002-05:00

Friends on I Love You.
I Love You Dan Rybicky and Aaron Wickenden.

Billboard Project Contest

2012-01-21T08:49:00.001-05:00

2012-01-20T21:58:00.002-05:00

Office Hours are a total success.

Office hours included a variety of visitors: artists, communists, activists, lesbians, students and the final visitor was Max, my neighbor and produce guy at the Acme. I was thrilled that Max came and we talked about a lot of stuff. I was thrilled to hear that he was excited about La Corona, which is right across from his work place. And he brought a tape recorder because he had recorded a dream about me, which included me wearing a brown corduroy pants suit with a matching hat.

Timothy popped in to his office to ask for a raise, which I don't believe I'm authorized to give. But maybe I am... I'll ask around.

2012-01-19T12:04:00.003-05:00

Today I'm taking Allan to the airport, and I have been remiss in giving a shout out to Sally Stein and Allan Sekula who I love very, very much. I'm so grateful that they came for the opening and the panel discussion. Thanks to Sally for writing an incredible essay included in Ten Years, "How Do We Look: Counter-Intuitive Prompts and Probes in Zoe Strauss's Resurgent Social Documentary Photography." It was an incredible honor to have her write an essay for the catalog.

Here's two other great places to read Sally's writing:

John Gutmann
The Photographer at Work
By Sally Stein

Montage and Modern Life: 1919-1942
Which includes a knock out of an essay by Ms. Stein.

Thanks to Allan for screening The Forgotten Space in Philadelphia.

I love you guys.

2012-01-18T16:59:00.001-05:00

The Forgotten Space with an introduction by Allan Sekula
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Starts at 7:00 p.m.
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.

Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.

2012-01-18T16:54:00.001-05:00

2012-01-18T07:34:00.001-05:00

2012-01-17T11:33:00.002-05:00

I am very tired and still reeling from Saturday.

Saturday- Dance party.
Sunday- Panel Discussion
Monday- Office Hours
Today- a little Recoup, then Allan's talk.

Two Superb Allan Sekula Events

2012-01-16T21:21:00.004-05:00

The Demonstrators Also Waited: Allan Sekula in Conversation with Kaja Silverman

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Starts at 6:30 p.m.
Slought Foundation
4017 Walnut St.
Philadelphia, PA

Free

Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.

The title of this event comes from a short essay written by Kaja Silverman about Allan Sekula's Waiting For Tear Gas, a slide show consisting of 81 images taken in Seattle during protests against the World Trade Organization in the autumn of 1999. In Waiting For Tear Gas, Sekula records "the lulls, the waiting, and the margins of the events." Photographing without a flash, telephoto zoom lens, or auto-focus, he refuses the pressure "to grab at all costs the one defining image of dramatic violence." Instead he presents us with a sequence that evokes the slow time of conflict in the street where the orchestration of police operations opens onto moments of uncertainty. These are scenes where everyone's role is pre-determined, but no one is quite sure how things will actually proceed. The conversation between Sekula and Kaja Silverman will be an occasion to ask how a work like Waiting For Tear Gas appears now in the light of the politics of occupation that have taken hold in our own moment, as well as a time to consider the shifting relationship between photography and temporality in Sekula's larger body of work on the operations of global capitalism.

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The Forgotten Space with an introduction by Allan Sekula

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Starts at 7:00 p.m.
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

Free

Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.

Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.

2012-01-16T09:12:00.001-05:00

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

2012-01-16T09:08:00.001-05:00

Philadelphia Museum of Art is OPEN today... FREE ADMISSION ALL DAY.

2012-01-16T09:07:00.001-05:00

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Spider Martin

2012-01-16T08:58:00.001-05:00

"Billboard along the march suggesting that King attended a communist training school" by Spider Martin

2012-01-15T18:01:00.001-05:00

Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein

2012-01-15T12:24:00.000-05:00

Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein

Sunday, January 15, 2012

2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium

Free tickets required

Photographers Zoe Strauss and Allan Sekula; Peter Barberie, The Museum’s Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center; and exhibition-catalogue contributing author Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, Art History and Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, discuss Strauss’s photography and the ten-year project she held under Interstate 95 in South Philadelphia. The conversation will address the political and social concerns behind Strauss’s practice and how she garnered a mid-career retrospective at the Museum only twelve years after picking up a camera.

Tonight.

2012-01-14T16:44:00.001-05:00

Dear Friends,

Tonight is my opening at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is sold out, which is a great honor.

I hope to see many of you tonight, but no worries if you aren't able to attend. There are events planned for the next 4 months that I hope will spectacular and thrilling.

Here's one of those events:

Philadelphia Dance Party with DJs King Britt and Jerry Blavat
Friday, January 20, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Free after admission

Here's another one of those events:

Steve Earle in conversation with Zoe Strauss
Saturday, January 28, 2012
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Free tickets required after Museum admission

Here's another one of those events:

Philadelphia Dance Party with DJ Cosmo Baker (AKA MY BROTHER!)
Friday, February 3, 2012
5:00 p.m. - 8:45 p.m.
Free after admission

Here's another one of those events... And it's TOMORROW!

Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium
Free tickets required

I'll be having office hours all through the duration of the exhibition and I'd love for some of you guys to stop by... You can schedule an appointment online or in the Megawords spot.

I am filled with joy, anxiety, excitement and a sense of total disbelief. With deep gratitude, I thank everyone one of you.

With Love,
Zoe

http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/745.html
http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/745.html?page=5&events=1
http://zoestraussbillboardproject.com/
http://zoestrauss.blogspot.com/

Billboard 8

2012-01-13T21:56:00.002-05:00

Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein

2012-01-11T14:14:00.004-05:00

Conversation: Zoe Strauss, Allan Sekula, Peter Barberie, and Sally Stein
Sunday, January 15, 2012
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location: Van Pelt Auditorium

Free tickets required

Photographers Zoe Strauss and Allan Sekula; Peter Barberie, The Museum’s Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center; and exhibition-catalogue contributing author Sally Stein, Professor Emerita, Art History and Film and Media Studies, University of California, Irvine, discuss Strauss’s photography and the ten-year project she held under Interstate 95 in South Philadelphia. The conversation will address the political and social concerns behind Strauss’s practice and how she garnered a mid-career retrospective at the Museum only twelve years after picking up a camera.

2012-01-08T11:46:00.002-05:00

Rick Santorum is an ass:

Full Court Press

2012-01-08T11:20:00.005-05:00

PW Joins Artist Zoe Strauss in Bus Tour of Billboard Project by Tara "Super-Awesome" Murtha

and

Lens on Philadelphia by Stephan Salisbury
and video by Tom Gralish

2012-01-07T20:48:00.003-05:00

Me and Antoinette.
January 7th, 2012

Antoinette going up.

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Finishing installation and slideshows tomorrow.
Finishing loose ends Tuesday.
Billboard Project Launches January 12, 2012.
Dance Party is sold out.
Office Hours start on MLK Day.

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2012-01-04T22:21:00.001-05:00

I can't thank Sam Gainsburg enough for the work she's done for this exhibition. And the work she's done for me personally. Thank you, Sam Gainsburg. Thank you.

For Lynn Bloom

2012-01-04T21:53:00.000-05:00

For Curator

2012-01-04T21:48:00.001-05:00

BILLBOARD PROJECT LAUNCHING JANUARY 12, 2012

2012-01-03T22:31:00.003-05:00

2012-01-03T21:49:00.004-05:00

Oh, Rick Santorum, you are a racist and an idiot.

2012-01-03T16:36:00.002-05:00

A shout out to all my East Oak Lane, West Oak Lane, Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill friends!

2012-01-02T16:15:00.001-05:00

Thank You.

2012-01-02T08:32:00.004-05:00

I'll see you guys at the show.

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Happy New Year From Dickinson St.

2012-01-01T00:33:00.002-05:00

Liz Taylor's Ankle

2011-12-29T21:38:00.005-05:00

week of March 1, 1960

Elizabeth Taylor injures her ankle while she and husband Eddie Fisher walked
out of a Philadelphia restaurant. The actress slipped on ice. Both were in town for
a visit to Fisher’s mother

This happened at "Smylie's," a restaurant that stood next to the current Smylie Times Building. In 1968, Joseph J. Smylie
tore down the restaurant and bought adjacent land to develop a five-story, 50,000-square-foot office building, the Smylie Times Building.

White Diamonds Bonus!
A short jaunt from the Smylie Times Building, but only if you're time traveling or taking the Concord:

"Photos: Elizabeth Taylor in Iran"
Photographs by Firooz Zahedi

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Thanks to Ilene Baker for the Liz Taylor Smylie Times research.

ABSOLUTE MUST SEE

2011-12-28T15:00:00.001-05:00

The Forgotten Space with an introduction by Allan Sekula
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Starts at 7:00 p.m.
International House
3701 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA
Free
Space is limited and on a first come first serve basis.
Follow the exchange of container cargo and the workers who facilitate its journey around the world through The Forgotten Space, a film by Allan Sekula and Noël Burch. Sekula will introduce the film and discuss his ongoing exploration of the sea as an essential, but all too often invisible, site of labor and global exchange.

Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, the Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, International House, and the Slought Foundation.

2011-12-27T16:31:00.001-05:00

"At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality... We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving force."
-Che Guevara

RIP Helen Frankenthaler

2011-12-27T10:16:00.001-05:00

Strafing Mock Targets, but Holding Fire, Too

2011-12-26T21:39:00.001-05:00

2011-12-26T14:40:00.000-05:00

2011

2004

2011-12-25T08:58:00.001-05:00

Merry Christmas to all! And on this holy day if anyone wants to share a Christmas miracle with me... the miracle of a working photoshop Cs5.1 serial number in my inbox... well, we all know the joy that sharing can bring!

Greetings from One of the Newest Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant Recipients!

2011-12-24T14:38:00.002-05:00

The Dream Garden indeed. I'm happy to see this everytime I go to the gynecologist at the Curtis Center. THANK YOU LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY FOUNDATION!

Richard Renaldi's 4th Annual Secular Holiday Advent Calendar

2011-12-24T12:08:00.001-05:00

By the great Richard Renaldi! Thank you for making this... It's GREAT!

2011-12-21T07:35:00.001-05:00

On G-Town radio this morning!

2011-12-16T18:11:00.001-05:00

Marcus Hook, PA

Sunoco to sell or close S. Phila., Marcus Hook refineries

Megawords.

2011-12-16T13:27:00.001-05:00

2011-12-16T10:41:00.003-05:00

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Billboard 16: Noon Sun In Alaska

95600 Henry Ave and Allegheny Ave

Billboard 17: Moon In Lectoure France

95601 S Henry Ave and Allegheny Ave

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2011-12-16T10:08:00.000-05:00

There will now be 55 billboards in the billboard project.

"Steve Earle and Zoe Strauss have a Conversation About Art and Politics."

2011-12-15T13:09:00.002-05:00

January 28th, 2012
3PM
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Van Pelt Auditorium
Free Admission to the talk.

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Steve Earle is a musician, a political activist, a writer, an actor and a national treasure.
Mr. Earle's lastest album and novel are both titled, "I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive."

Zoe Strauss is an anarchist, a lesbian, an installation artist and a photographer.
Ms. Strauss's latest exhibition is 10 Years, on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from January 14, 2012 until April 22, 2012

2011-12-14T23:24:00.000-05:00

Still uploading.

THANK YOU LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY FOUNDATION

2011-12-14T11:03:00.001-05:00

2011-12-13T07:16:00.001-05:00

In bed, but still sending.

2011-12-13T00:36:00.002-05:00

The Mrs. is upstairs asleep and I've got about another hour and a half of uploading. I'm gonna make it.

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2011-12-12T16:39:00.001-05:00

2011-12-12T16:15:00.000-05:00

2011-12-09T16:47:00.001-05:00

The Clear Channel Outdoor posters I'm using are 100% recyclable, which is 100% awesome

Fugue state

2011-12-09T09:14:00.002-05:00

Last night at about 2:30 AM I woke myself up laughing at something I was dreaming about, and then found that I WAS STILL WORKING ON THE COMPUTER, cropping the Pacific Ocean image IN MY SLEEP. Then as I was coming to, totally confused, I saw that Gandalf was in a haze of light talking to the hobbits before they sailed away from Middle Earth and managed to wake up enough to turn off the muted Lord of the Rings and get upstairs and in bed with my lady.

Side note- often I talk in my sleep and at times with increased stress or when I'm working overtime, this increases.

Here's a good example of my sleep talking:

Begin

ZS (asleep)- "I just decreased the font size"
LB (awake)- "What?"
ZS (asleep)- "I'm so glad you're not Pippa Middleton."

End.

Billboard Project Map

2011-12-08T10:14:00.001-05:00

Made by the incredible cartographer and overall awesome lady Michelle Schmitt.

A Tribute on World AIDS Day, With Moves From the Street and the Clubs

2011-12-08T09:20:00.001-05:00

I love Rennie Harris.

2011-12-07T22:55:00.005-05:00

View Larger Map

View Larger Map
Full billboard route.

2011-12-07T17:01:00.000-05:00

THE BLUE STOOP
by Thomas Devaney Dec 02, 2011

2011-12-07T10:32:00.002-05:00

Hello Friends,

The Opening Dance Party for 10 Years begins at 8PM on Saturday, January 14, 2012. The museum is offering 100 free tickets for the dance party and you can grab one by RSVPing to the Museum, so call in first thing tomorrow if you can. RSVPs are required and this invitation is for one ticket only. Please call the Ticket Center: 215-235-SHOW (7469) and give them this super secret password: SUPERNOVA.

With Love,
ZS

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UPDATE: SUPERNOVA TICKETS ARE ALL GONE!

Zoe Strauss Exhibition Opening Dance Party

2011-12-06T14:08:00.001-05:00

2011-12-06T11:27:00.001-05:00

Red Sky at Night,
Sailors Delight

Red Sky in Morn,
Sailors Take Warn

2011-12-05T14:41:00.003-05:00

I have begun to move into insufferably selfish and myopic. I am only focused on my show, and this is at the expense of everything else in my life. Thank you for your patience and support, friends and family. Thank you especially to my immediate family. And thank you to my loving and supportive wife, without whom I'd be lost at sea. Or maybe just lost in Philadelphia. No matter what, it would be lost.

2011-12-04T20:54:00.001-05:00

Trying to force this to work at 15th and Girard. Nope, can't do it.

2011-12-04T20:46:00.001-05:00

2011-12-03T20:07:00.001-05:00

2011-12-03T20:03:00.009-05:00

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2011-12-01T09:50:00.003-05:00

MOVE: An Oral History By Victor Fiorillo

HMV Oxford Street Store

2011-12-01T09:49:00.000-05:00

Thanks to the Mrs. for this link.

Day Without Art

2011-12-01T09:31:00.004-05:00

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2011-12-01T08:11:00.009-05:00

Billboard Project (Fortune)
Atlantic City, NJ

From the Fitzgerald Translation of The Odyssey by Homer

I
fortune 314_9

II
fortune 109_22

IV
Fortune 97_56

V
Fortune 441_137

XVII
fortune 553_324

XIX
Fortunes 370

XXI
Fortune 404

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III
they kept on to their journey’s end. Behind them
the sun went down and all the roads grew dark 540-541_49

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Atlantic City
Bruce Springsteen

Well they blew up the chicken man in Philly last night now they blew up his house too
Down on the boardwalk they're gettin' ready for a fight gonna see what them racket boys can do

Now there's trouble busin' in from outta state and the D.A. can't get no relief
Gonna be a rumble out on the promenade and the gamblin' commissions hangin' on by the skin of its teeth

Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City

Well I got a job and tried to put my money away
But I got in too deep and I could not pay
So I drew what I had from the Central Trust
And I bought us two tickets on that Coast City bus

Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City

Now our luck may have died and our love may be cold but with you forever I'll stay
We're goin' out where the sands turnin' to gold so put on your stockin's cause the nights gettin' cold and maybe everything dies
That's a fact but maybe everything that dies someday comes back

Now I been lookin' for a job but it's hard to find
Down here it's just winners and losers and don't get caught on the wrong side of that line
Well I'm tired of comin' out on the losin' end
So honey last night I met this guy and I'm gonna do a little favor for him

Well I guess everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Put your makeup on fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City

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2011-12-01T01:00:00.001-05:00

“Silence=Death,” ACT UP New York. Courtesy of the New York Public Library, Manuscripts and Archive Division.

2011-11-30T22:25:00.003-05:00

Billboard Project: "These Are The Roads To Take..."

2011-11-30T21:45:00.009-05:00

Diving into the Wreck
by Adrienne Rich

First having read the book of myths,
and loaded the camera,
and checked the edge of the knife-blade,
I put on
the body-armor of black rubber
the absurd flippers
the grave and awkward mask.
I am having to do this
not like Cousteau with his
assiduous team
aboard the sun-flooded schooner
but here alone.

There is a ladder.
The ladder is always there
hanging innocently
close to the side of the schooner.
We know what it is for,
we who have used it.
Otherwise
it is a piece of maritime floss
some sundry equipment.

I go down.
Rung after rung and still
the oxygen immerses me
the blue light
the clear atoms
of our human air.
I go down.
My flippers cripple me,
I crawl like an insect down the ladder
and there is no one
to tell me when the ocean
will begin.

First the air is blue and then
it is bluer and then green and then
black I am blacking out and yet
my mask is powerful
it pumps my blood with power
the sea is another story
the sea is not a question of power
I have to learn alone
to turn my body without force
in the deep element.

And now: it is easy to forget
what I came for
among so many who have always
lived here
swaying their crenellated fans
between the reefs
and besides
you breathe differently down here.

I came to explore the wreck.
The words are purposes.
The words are maps.
I came to see the damage that was done
and the treasures that prevail.
I stroke the beam of my lamp
slowly along the flank
of something more permanent
than fish or weed

the thing I came for:
the wreck and not the story of the wreck
the thing itself and not the myth
the drowned face always staring
toward the sun
the evidence of damage
worn by salt and away into this threadbare beauty
the ribs of the disaster
curving their assertion
among the tentative haunters.

This is the place.
And I am here, the mermaid whose dark hair
streams black, the merman in his armored body.
We circle silently
about the wreck
we dive into the hold.
I am she: I am he

whose drowned face sleeps with open eyes
whose breasts still bear the stress
whose silver, copper, vermeil cargo lies
obscurely inside barrels
half-wedged and left to rot
we are the half-destroyed instruments
that once held to a course
the water-eaten log
the fouled compass

We are, I am, you are
by cowardice or courage
the one who find our way
back to this scene
carrying a knife, a camera
a book of myths
in which
our names do not appear.

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“The journey is the thing.”
atributed to Homer

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"What do you want—a cliff over a city?"
from U.S. 1 Muriel Rukeyser

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2011-11-30T12:17:00.002-05:00

Philadelphia Mag... the highlight of this is that I am the least cool person you'll ever meet. As is evidenced from that housecoat I'm wearing, because I was cooking soup when Ryan came over to make my photo. Also, I am eating a cheez-it in this photo. Please note it's not a CHEESE NIP, because I can't go for those.

Thanks to Mr. John Powell for the scan.

What Will People See?

2011-11-27T14:51:00.011-05:00

The image below will not work as a billboard. The urban visual landscape is filled with these images. I doubt anyone would do a double take at this disaster photo. Very few people will give this image more than a glance.

Gusher Site BP Catastrophe

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Here's a film still from Battle LA

I wouldn't see this image. We all know these images and what they mean. Because of the disaster film aesthetic, these images are invisible.

2011-11-26T20:01:00.002-05:00

"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth."
Raoul Vaneigem

For Michael Macfeat

2011-11-26T16:13:00.000-05:00

Zoe Strauss Exhibition Opening Dance Party

2011-11-26T14:39:00.001-05:00

2011-11-25T20:41:00.002-05:00

Funnest time anyone has ever had of their tooth getting pulled.

I love my dentists. And my dental assistants. And the receptionists. Seriously, who is like, "Getting a tooth pulled is a bummer, but if it has to get pulled this is the best case scenario of any scenario?" I can answer honestly, me. I could say that. Thanks for pulling my tooth!

2011-11-23T21:50:00.001-05:00

2011-11-21T22:47:00.001-05:00

2011-11-21T21:40:00.002-05:00

Did you know the entire PMA show was printed at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, a community darkroom? That's right.

2011-11-21T20:37:00.001-05:00

2011-11-20T19:02:00.001-05:00

From Michael Macfeat's blog.

Occupy Together.

2011-11-20T13:28:00.001-05:00

Any households who are genderqueer friendly and trans friendy have an extra place at their table for a friend of mine on Thankgiving? Please inbox me, info (@) zoestrauss (dot) com.

2011-11-20T01:37:00.001-05:00