Binky
Binky 2012
In nearly 30 years of living, I still feel like a child, but I have picked up some wisdom. Here’s what I know, mixed in with some promises to myself for this year. Why the heck not?
Everything’s a trade-off
In the past couple of years, we
-left our jobs in NYC and our apartment in JC
-followed the [...]
My Space Odyssey
After working/living in two tiny studios in a row (both roughly 500 sq feet or less), I’ve learned to appreciate a good, open space. I long for it.
An ideal workspace should inspire you to grow, to think, and to be creative. Ideas need a place to be LOUD.
Penelope is Me
“The trick to not feeling cheated is to learn how to cheat.” – Penelope, The Brothers Bloom
When I saw Penelope in The Brothers Bloom, I thought, hey, she’s a bit like me; she collects hobbies! (She’s even from NJ and had severe allergies a child.)
While I have many, many, hobbies, I certainly don’t juggle [...]
In like a lion, out like a lamb
Ah, Florida. I came to this sunny place without regret. My mantra for the past year has been all about kinetics: move forward, onward, and up. I always wanted it to be on my own terms, and I barreled into town without a job, or a place to live. I knew where I wanted to [...]
Clean
What’s an opinion like
Why bother with a mind
Most thoughts are nothing
And they’re killing me
When I was just 13
Pastor laid hands on me
He was forgiven
But I’m still unclean
Tear yourself a bandage
Suck it up and let it heal
Take a coal and burn it
Don’t be a baby don’t you squeal
Cuz He saved you when you were on drugs
And [...]
Contrast
Here are two mobile photos I took in the same day.
The first was taken during the romantic lull of a laparoscopic case in the OR. My sharp back pain hits, and there’s the hypagognic jerk. How long have I been in here?
The second photo was taken when I was let out of work early. [...]
Garlic Fisheye
Like a fairytale mirror of distorted glass, fisheye photos, almost audibly perceived, carry my soul’s voice.
Then there’s food. Obsessed, I consume it, and it consumes me. What a good, reciprocative relationship we have going!
Garlic Fest in Delray Beach 2011
With the under-par food, based around one of the most facilitative of ingredients at that, this colorful [...]
Climbers
More on identity.
I think most people have different forms of themselves within. This is especially true for artists. Each artistic form is dying to come out and surface at the top, clawing to make their existence known.
It seems I’ve managed to keep my focus on work and money-making, that I have left little time for [...]
Kristen Veloria
My first name has always had last priority. There was Kristen, lurking behind Binky and Bianca. All through life, at formal places: at school, at work, I would present her to my peers. Here is Kristen. But they’d become my friends. Loved ones. They’d catch on. Oh, but I see you’re really Binky, [...]
2011! …or, 2010 part 2
I loved 2010 for its simplicity. Anthony and I whittled away our treasures, took off in our car, and started a journey with no end. We’ve learned to appreciate the people we love even more, crave our art even more, and we’re still learning. Needless to say, whatever I promised myself in 2010 wasn’t shabby. [...]