I'm done being the lampshade


Guest Mara has a comment about Katrina.

This entry was written during a long low point in this amazing blog by Clayton James Cubitt , a NY photographer who grew up in New Orleans and who's mother's home was in the Eastern Eye wall. If you want to read this click on the site and go to the archive and read it from bottom to top. The pictures are startling and the story telling is good too. I think it should be published as a book., because you feel the struggle from the inside and from the level of the survivors. It takes a couple of hours but is worth it. I cried and laughed, I know that sounds trite.
Fuck keeping hope alive. Who are we kidding? Our lives are that fragile lampshade, and our fate is that black mold, and that's it. I want to sleep, not take pictures or talk to FEMA or put on a happy strong face.
Enough. Sleep. Ignore. Delay. Distract. I'm done being the lampshade, I want to be the black mold.


Posted: Thu - August 31, 2006 at 11:28 PM            

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