selkie
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| Gender | Female |
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| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Introduction | Photographer/Dancer-Performance Artist/Poet & All Around Loon… I am a girl – I take a lot of photos and write a lot of words, both which i manipulate and generally mess with until they look they way i want. As a teenager i began writing angst-ridden and incredibly bad poetry - but began photography quite accidentally – and because of an accident. I became ill in 2003 with an auto-immune illness, and shortly after injured my spine – an event that left me largely bedridden for several months; up until fairly recently, i wore a back-brace and was told i may never walk without a cane (they were wrong, as “they” almost always are…). I was given a camera as a gift, which i used on myself as a way to document my recovery and relieve the stultifying boredom. During this time i began the habit of writing and taking photos every day. I turned the lens on myself because there was no one else around, and i was confined to my own apartment for months, with only short physical-therapy walks in the Honolulu University district. My camera, pen and ballet slippers keep me from indulging in anti-social, murderous and possibly illegal behaviour. It keeps me sane. This is what i do. |
| Interests | Writing, Photography, Dance |
| Favorite Movies | Down By Law, Mirrormask, On the Outs, Night of the Hunter, Fifth Element |
| Favorite Music | Can, Ani Difranco, Ben Harper, Deftones, Eric Dolphy, Miles Davis, n.Lannon, Andrew Hill, Mingus, Cranes, Sufjan Stevens, Led Zeppelin, Gillian Welch, Erykah Badu, Decoder Ring, Danzig, Four Tet, Film School, Iron and Wine, John Cage, etc |
| Favorite Books | Master and Margarita, Love in the Time of Cholera, Long Way Down, Maia |