Holly McCrea - Model - Poet - Creation Conduit.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
My Mother's Red Shawl - El Rebozo Colorado
Holly McCrea - Model - Poet - Creation conduit.
A silver ring inlaid in a black cased box,
From it comes
something precious and rare.
A moment that the
machine soon locks,
Cellophane strips in
gray-scale fair.
I admit it, I'm a
mechanophile. Pistons, valves, rivets, and tubes. The places where one component
locks in to another, like where a lens fits in to a camera. They make me tingle
in the part of my brain only reserved for reaching long term goals, not the
same flash as when I began molding my body in the way I wanted but a simmer of
that heat,
It may be from my want
to some day augment myself away from my current form of flesh to something
more, post-human. "Replacing my meat with chrome," as some cyberpunk
offshoots are oft to say. A subtle, future bit of narcissism.
Or it could just be
that a functioning, well kept machine is sexy as hell, with the oil slick
movements flowing through my vision in the same way that good sex does. Like
the way that H.R. Giger fuses sexual frustration in to paintings of
labyrinthine machinery, his paintings do speak to me in the same way that I see
some robotics in motion.
Ether way, my memory
of shooting this piece isn't what I came to do but what happened afterwards.
Digital was traded in for this monster of a camera and after it came out it was
all I could see. Well, that and what it produced.
From that sexy and old
technology came something that some people of my generation may not have seen
and may never see; instant Polaroid [Fuji Instant Film]. A little bit of
physical magic that I've never actually owned before. The crisp gray-scale
image and the changes that the medium produced were literally stunning. I felt honoured
to both have my image burned in to it and to own something so lost.
I'm worried now, what
to do with this? I'm afraid to touch it lest I ruin the crisp surface with the
oils on my fingers and I don't want to frame it because it defeats the
aesthetics. For now I guess I'll treasure this afterglow and become utterly
entranced by it.
Lisa Ha Model - Volunteer - Friend
Carmen Alatorre Diseñadora de vestuario
Roberto Baschetti Sociólogo, Investigador Histórico - Amigo
Jennifer Froese Youth Worker
Rachel Cairns Actor
Jennifer Landels Espadachina
Judith Currelly Pilot- Artist
Jim Erickson Set Decorator
Alexandra Hill Soprano
Georgina Elizabeth Isles Figure Model
Emma Middleton Actor
Mark Pryor Author/Lawyer/Assistant DA Travis County TX
Brother Edwin Charles Reggio, CSC Mentor & Teacher
Veronica Vex Burlesque Dancer
George McWhirter Poet
Raúl Guerrero Montemayor Padre-Compadre
Alexandra Waterhouse-Hayward Maestra
Shirley Gnome Singer/Provocateur
Yeva & Thoenn Glover Dancers/Choreographers
JJ Lee Writer
Jacqueline Model
Cathy Marsden Psychiatrist
André De Mondo Wanderer
Colin MacDonald Saxophonist/Composer
Nina Gouveia Yoga Instructor
Stacey Hutton Excercise Physiologist
Colleen Wheeler Actor
Sarah Rodgers Actor, Director,Mother
Tim Turner - Real Estate Agent
Kiera Hill Dancer
Johnna Wright & Sascha Director/Mother - Son/Dreamer
Decker & Nick Hunt Cat & 19th century amateur
George Bowering Poet
Celia Duthie Gallerist
Linda Lorenzo Mother
Katheryn Petersen Accordionist
Stefanie Denz Artist
Ivette Hernández Actress
Byron Chief-Moon Actor/Dancer
Colin Horricks Doctor
Ian Mulgrew Vancouver Sun Columnist
Jocelyn Morlock Composer
Corinne McConchie Librarian
Rachel Ditor Dramaturg
Patrick Reid Statesman, Flag Designer
Michael Varga CBC Cameraman
Bronwen Marsden Playwright/Actress/Director
David Baines Vancouver Sun Columnist
Alex Waterhouse-Hayward Photographer
Lauren Elizabeth Stewart Student
Sandrine Cassini Dancer/Choreographer
Meredith Kalaman Dancer/Choreographer
Juliya Kate Dominatrix
