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Dec–2025Self-Study #219 Instrument––psychic, body, camera

Mamiya 7 II

Dec–2025Self-Study #218 Moon and Venus, my way of talking to the universe.
God, erotic God.
Mamiya 7 II

Dec–2025Self-Study #217
Pentax 6x7

Dec–2025 WINTER WITCH
Pentax UC-1 

Dec–2025Self-Study #216 Erotic volumes
Pentax UC-1 

Nov–2025Self-Study #215 I keep losing my train of thought on the page recently. But I wanted to make my body more central, more primary, the focus & subject & instrument & record, and it seems words are dissolving in that process, loosening. And so be it. Deeper into my body as the vehicle & alter of an ongoing erotic meditation. Curious things are happening & I want more.
Pentax UC-1 

Nov–2025Self-Study #214 How much feeling and passion and eroticism and heat can I ride without disturbing my soul‘s peace?
Pentax UC-1 

Nov–2025Self-Study #213 Medals / Metal 23
Pentax UC-1

Nov–2025Self-Study #212 A young man in a low buttoned white shirt & silver chains 1 step ahead of me in line buying The Diary of Anaïs Nin.

Lipsticked cigarette on the pavement. The roads wild. Protests? 



Pentax UC-1

Sep–2025Self-Study #211 The aroma as I left Ojai, car top down, subtly of oranges and October brush? Soft burn. Bliss. Remembering these kinds of adventures and how I used to give myself permission to love them. 
Pentax UC-1
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