Mobile Uploads

Cell phone pics. Updating the shaving theme from several years ago, below.

Farmville

With this post the age range of the photographs in this blog officially spans a quarter century.

The location is a publicly accessible farm with a field where I sometimes go to meditate or sun myself. When it has been possible I've chosen places to live with the idea of being naked outdoors in mind, but as things stand I have to travel a little bit these days.

Not much sun on the day of these pictures, alas. My photographer had to put her clothes on almost immediately as the rains came.

Trout Fishing in America

Effects

Sometimes you can take a picture of a normal object and manipulate it to create something impressionistic or abstract.

Echo Lake

These again are ancient. The strips below this post are recent, although I've been growing my hair very long in the last year and don't have any good extremely current pics. Still, I modelled for a class today (which inspired me to come back to post here) and the body in the "strips" post is the current edition.

Echo Lake is on Mt. Desert Island in Maine. When these were taken there was an area that was a generally accepted nude swimming area. I love places like that. I went back some number of years later and in the same area everyone was wearing clothes. I wonder whether another bit of clothes-freedom has been lost.

Strips

Sometimes I make these strips, each a variation on a theme...

Life Model

When I got a little serious about art a few years ago and started taking classes and attending live modelling sessions I thought I would be holistic and experience life on both sides of the easel, so I started modelling as well. It's interesting to see the different ways people would record me. I still model semi-regularly. The first time I did it it was a strange sensation to be the object of study, like knowing what it's like to be a pretty girl. Now it's second nature. It's a kind of meditative experience to hold a pose for minutes.