"Like Wildfire In the Moonlight" in support for Health Justice Commons
Happy New Year y'all- Last one was a doozy. Let's make this one exactly what our hearts (no matter how broken) tell us it should be.
In celebration of new beginnings, restarts, and second acts- I thought it'd be cool to share an outlier body of work that not too many folks have seen. It's a series of Polaroid photographs titled "Like Wildfire In the Moonlight."
Like Wildfire In the Moonlight, 2023
I shot them in the early 2023, just after I had had my second hip replacement. My surgeon had encouraged me to walk as much as possible following the procedure, and I was more than happy to oblige. Wandering - once an essential part of my creative practice - hadn't really been an option for a couple of years... And I was ready to make up for lost time.
Objectively speaking, it had been a particularity rainy Winter; which in turn made for a particularly robust Spring bloom. Subjectively speaking, the world was welcoming me back with wild explosions of over-saturated color; each night I was encouraged to walk further by the promise of more yellow and orange. More waxy green. More dusty purple and almost neon magenta.
Like Wildfire In the Moonlight, 2023
I was a newly bionic man; day-dreaming in the dark with antiquated technology hung around my neck. It's harsh flashes were my only source of light. I had no idea what I was doing. I had no idea where I was going.
The Health Justice Commons works at the intersections of racial, economic, gender, disability, and climate justice to support marginalized communities to re-imagine and re-design healthcare and healing for our times.
For the foreseeable future, the newsletter will now go out every other week. As it turns out I’m an artist, not a content creator. I need time to let it flow, and let myself go- Low and slow that is my tempo.
I think y'all get it. 🧡✌️
"You are not bad. You are a Jazz musician in a world trying to sell ringtones" - Robert Kingett
A call to action, commonly known by the initialism CTA, is a strategic marketing tool designed to spur an immediate response from an audience, guiding them toward a specific action.
NNH began with the (perhaps naive) hope that it could be of service to folks who needed it. I wasn't exactly sure who that meant- Was it the potential readership? The Mutual Aid groups that would be featured in each post? Or other creative types (equally fed up with the constant "me at the center" paradigm required by our Tech Overlords) looking for a place to get weird and do some good.
SO, if you're out there- whomever you may be- Let me know. Leave a comment. Click a link. Tell a friend. Pitch an idea. Do anything to feel less alone in the world.
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