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What Moves, Moves

Posted on November 28, 2012 by stephenarcher

What nature makes is bet­ter. The right angles that I focus on are not found in what flows eas­ily, nat­u­rally. My mind finds the right angles, my heart, the flow. Sim­ple as that. Or this… I can’t write about any­thing new. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Ping…Pong

Posted on August 1, 2012 by stephenarcher

When I lived in Atlanta I played ping pong ( dur­ing the Olympics you call it Table Ten­nis). I would go to Keith’s house and on the way I would stop at the biggetst Farmer’s Mar­ket ever. I bought what­ever … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Oregon via Chicago

Posted on April 7, 2012 by stephenarcher

I went to Chicago and walked and made some pic­tures and let myself do noth­ing too impor­tant for a lit­tle while. I went to the Museum of Con­tem­po­rary Phở­tog­ra­phy at Colum­bia Col­lege to see an exhibit called “Lim­its of Phở­tog­ra­phy”. … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Eddy

Posted on January 8, 2012 by stephenarcher

What is a truth and a lie? A phở­to­graph is the lie sit­ting, like a spi­der in the web of the truth. What stays and what moves? A river does both and stops doing both at the same time. What is valu­able … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Untitled 13

Posted on October 21, 2011 by stephenarcher

Some­times the beauty comes by acci­dent; the cam­era sees it for me. This is one of those pic­tures where I won­der if I am the only one who sees some­thing poetic, grace­ful. Does the same feel­ing arise in you when … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The Rain.

Posted on October 16, 2011 by stephenarcher

I lay in the rain to let the drops hit me like down­beats to the next breath, like lit­tle knocks on the apart­ment door when I lived alone on a Sun­day after­noon and the quiet was every­where. The clouds, mov­ing … Con­tinue read­ing →

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As the Shadows, Long

Posted on July 29, 2011 by stephenarcher

god, the uni­verse, the not-me, the power, the void, noth­ing at all: Like the arm on a skeet trap fling­ing clay, auto­matic, relent­less fling­ing a spin­ning disc to water, fly­ing, the crit­i­cal first few rev-o-lu-tions deter­mine entry angle, pro­vid­ing work for sooth­say­ers who … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Molten

Posted on June 29, 2011 by stephenarcher

Today I learned that 65% of the stars we see burn­ing through the draped vel­vet are really dou­ble stars. If one looks through a tele­scope it is two stars most of the time. I am think­ing of rela­tion­ships. The bright ones are … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Swim Away

Posted on February 26, 2011 by stephenarcher

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Bling

Posted on January 4, 2011 by stephenarcher

Bling Con­tinue read­ing →

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