Image Archive
Good graphic design. Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall awkwardly gripping his forehead at a premiere. Candle wax and quilts and girls jumping out the window. Clay rings and clay candle holders and Chloë Sevigny wearing a cat mask. Doilies and book covers and ashtrays shaped like prayer hands.
Late-20th century fish bowl. A Triple-crown special with a post-punk Kentucky Derby that melts into a DC hardcore Preakness and bursts into a butterfly clips Belmont Stakes. Rugs and boots and candles and Cass Elliot. Fingertip library of polaroids and lakes and rivers and snakes and babies.
Black box time machine. Pamphlets and posters and Brian Baker and Jeff Nelson fighting for the last piece of sandwich ham on the last Minor Threat tour before things fell apart and Reagan took office and Pinterest, the Church of the Digital Image, was erected. Before I was born and baptized into an image archive.
Typeface and titles and movies and tiles. Printmaking nuns and parades. Holy days and holy bread and the blood you can drink. Vampires and Dave Vanian. Sense and Captain Sensible and low-budget music videos and Easy Lemon Butter Fish In 20 minutes. Mommy blogs and the Mari Winsor buns and thighs pilates program pirated on Youtube. Everything in a flash of blue light. Like grains of life on earth in a big cosmic rice cooker. Vessels and mirrors and ceramic objects glazed in hazy pinks and blues, like sailors’ delight skies.
The internet is a loaf of bread, formed by human hands.
The internet is the holy matrimony of code and heart.
The internet is seeped in human touch, in fine craftsmanship and wild nights and beautiful actresses. Drawings of flying rabbits and Drew Barrymore’s top 12 red carpet looks of the 1990s.
This is the church and it’s filled with saints and sinners. Pins and pinners in a lazy river of wine and roses and Dazed Beauty tutorials and 10 easy one-pan dinners perfect for weekdays.
Millisecond masses, questions and answers and homilies floating around in the Image Archive.