Category Archives: Everyday

Field Notes: Walk with Me

2/24/18

 

Walking along,

Don’t know what I will encounter.

I can anticipate, but not know.

I can expect and may receive.

I can grow or die.

 

This light, this heat, the air on my skin,

Touching you,

You are soft.

Is this moment forever?

No.

 

Look here, not there.

Reaching for you, but you are gone.

With you wherever you are.

Are you gone?

No.

 

Walk a little further.

Blister more.

Your heart is strong.

Mine is strong.

No.

 

Walk with me

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Back in Black (and White)

1/13/18
2017 was an incredible and tumultuous year for me. I started a new and completely different chapter in my life. Everything in my personal life has changed beyond what I ever thought was possible, for the good mostly, but not without immense pain. I discovered dark truths about people I’d considered family for over a decade, and chose to be true to myself and to what I know is right.

I went into a bubble of isolation from most people and from my work for the past year just getting through the day-to-day and dealing with the grieving.

I’ve been in survival mode.

I never thought I could live through the loss I did last year, but I am trusting that love and truth will triumph in the end and I’m ready and to move forward in my life and in my work.

05-01 - Grasping_Gina DeGideo

o5/01 – Grasping ©Gina DeGideo

All year I’ve been looking at my unprocessed film and fresh packs of photo paper, knowing I need to get back, so it’s time for New Years Resolutions!

2018 Goals:

Finishing my Along the Way film processing and printing

Complete my writing and book for the project

Exhibit Along the Way as a solo show

Get back to blogging regularly

Process my new 4×5 film and keep shooting

Resolve Flex series printing

Down the Rabbit Hole…

9/20/15

"Found" ©Gina DeGideo

“Found” ©Gina DeGideo

Years ago, I made this photograph on a family day trip up to small rural town in northern Arizona for my nephew’s fourth birthday party. My son, along with a couple of his cousins and I, ventured down a pathway leading from the party for a quick walk. I carried my small point and shoot digital camera to take some snaps of the boys by the creek. I had remembered that down this path was also an amazing tree house my cousins and I had grown up climbing and playing in.

Just minutes into our hike on the trail, often used as a roadway for everyone in town to ride quads, jeeps, and dirt bikes, I stumbled upon this completely flattened and decomposing rabbit in the sand. The animal’s fascinating form, preservation, cleanliness, fluffiness, and unfortunate situation demanded my full attention. I responded to my found object by photographing it (how could I not) including my foot. Its perfect face and form make this one of my favorite photographs to date.

The American Southwest at 75mph

7/25/14
I finally was afforded the one-way opportunity to be a passenger, instead of a driver, on our most recent road trip from Arizona to California. I am a natural observer of the land and I love to look! It has always interested me how while passing through the world at such a high rate of speed your eye creates a visual pattern of objects in your view. You know this to be true if you’ve ever driven by a cornfield in a car. When passing through the desert, my gaze is always focused on the far-away mountains and the curious things I can see in the distance. On the trip I found myself photographing with my cell phone. What was revealed were the patterns, shapes, colors, and alien objects that exist in the middle of nowhere. Looking at all of the images together worked even better to affirm the idea of a deconstructed view and an abstracted landscape.

SW LAndscape at 75mph WEB