Linda Lost & Found
Thursday, January 12, 2017
While I am alive I want to know where every picture I ever
took is. This is both unreasonable and unlikely. There are many photographs that I took with my first
couple of cameras that I cannot find.
Loss can be
random and yet I remember moving from one little apartment to another with my
Rosemary around 1969 when my best pipe, an English Bewlay given to me by my
Argentine uncle Fred Hayward and one record, Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
disappeared from our moving van. I will never know if those two Mexicans from a
small moving van company knew what they had taken.
The sheet
of negatives that you see here I lost approximately 10 years ago and every time
I remember the loss I feel like crying. Who do painters cope with the selling
of an original work?
These
photographs are of Argentine model Linda Lorenzo with whom my friends and
Argentine painters Juan Manuel Sánchez and Linda Lorenzo worked in a project of
“colaboración that we called Nostalgia. We had a grand gallery show of our
output.
In this
contact sheet (in this case the scanned negatives) in which I used Kodak B+W
Infrared Film the theme was the Borges labyrinth and the other posing with an
Argentine ostrich egg. Lorenzo had
fabulous curves so I could not resist sliding of the theme. The Borges
labyrinth is interpreted with Lorenzo posing in a sofa with the sofa itself
part of two painting by Sánchez and Patrich.
I found the negatives between my alphabetized files. Somehow I had returned them without putting then in the file in question labeled, Lorenzo, Linda.
