Draped Figure by Daniel Arsham #fiberglass #sculpture (Taken with Instagram at Richmond Center for Visual Arts (RCVA))
Do your part. Be informed.
There is nothing quite like trudging through wet dirty snow with a bunch of gear and a 4x5 to realize you left your tripod bag hanging on a tree. FML. (Taken with instagram)
The Cool Kids
Tis The Season For Cryptococcal Meningitis. (Taken with Instagram at University Of Michigan Main Hospital)
A Room With A View
// it cuts across the land, it cuts across the heart//
I never thought that I would ever be in the situation that I am now. Watching my father as he lay in a hospital bed is beyond intimidating and awfully damaging to ones heart.
Two full weeks and counting.
Hospital, Rehab, Emergency, Hospital.
Orthostatic Hypotension. Hypertension. Bone Marrow Biopsy. Neuropathy.
Cardiac Progressive. 5th Floor Oncology. Neurology.
In two weeks I’ve learned more about medicine than I ever wanted to know and found a reason to be responsible which is not the reason I was hoping to force me into adulthood.
I’m not ready for this. I’m not ready to lose. I’m not ready to be on my own, again. I’m not ready to be strong for others. But ready or not there is often no choice.
I’d give anything to be out of this hospital. I’d give anything to be out shooting and spending time thinking about the world at large. I’d give anything for my dad to be ok.
Why is normal so hard to do these days?
It’s been a great vacation thus far.
My Kitch. (Taken with instagram)
![Alley View live at Jukes [grand rapids, mi] (Taken with Instagram at Jukes)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw0uk3BwtV1qaus5mo1_500.jpg)
Alley View live at Jukes [grand rapids, mi] (Taken with Instagram at Jukes)
Back to the daily grind tomorrow! Gum prints all day ‘ery day!
©ELLEN ARDEN 2011
Jake Simmons and The Little Ghost.
Need I say more?
Cheers.
Ahoy!
I have been incredibly busy with so many things that those silver prints I promised days/weeks ago have not made it out of their home in my portfolio. But soon they will travel from there to my scanner and right to the world to view. They are looking forward to it and so am I!
In other news I am currently working on a series of images based on the Brothers Grimm fairytales such as; The Frog Prince, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel… ect.
This suite of prints are all gum bichromate and framed. Cant wait to shop them around to galleries. What an interesting process.
Later Kiddies.
Hello. I am Ellen. I take photographs, hang out at concerts with cocaine cowboys, and smoke american spirits because it makes me look cool.
