November 5th
If any of you are still wondering, I’ve bought a ticket for Guatemala and depart LAX the morning of November 5th. That will mark the end of 3 great and full months in Los Angeles. Burning Man, a beautiful trip to Kings Canyon (I haven’t posted any pics to the blog yet - they’re here), a photo published in Citizen L.A. (see below) and now a gallery show at the Dale Youngman Gallery in Downtown L.A. (featured photos are here).
Leaving Burning Man this year, I said I wanted to take my photography more seriously. I didn’t imagine it would be the photos I took there that would lead to this being a reality. Ever since being offered the gallery show, I’ve thought a lot about what it means to be an ‘artist’. With so many possible meanings, I’ve come to the conclusion that anybody who believes in their own creative potential can be an ‘artist’; a photographer, a DJ.
I’ll leave with a link to The Dynamics‘ sublime cover of Curtis Mayfield’s immortal ‘Move on Up’; I think it is apropos for this evening. The Dynamics are a contemporary Reggae group out of Lyon, France currently playing mostly cover songs. Their album drops soon - watch out for it!
