Showing posts with label journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label journal. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2012



bits & bobs

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Bits and pieces of my apartment.  I don't think I will ever stop adding things.  On my nightstand, I have a bunch of fake peonies.  The real things bloom for such a short amount of time; what would the winter be without soft pink peonies to look at from bed?  The sun-catcher with my name on it, a gift from another Kelly that I lost to the west coast.  A palm-sized kitten medallion that was a birthday present from another friend several years ago.  Driftwood from Mexico and a few stones that have caught my eye that  I have collected over the years.

I went outside this afternoon and collected a handful of what I can only assume are weeds.  My desk needed a bit more wildlife to it.  My front yard is overgrown with bittersweet vines and the peonies are long gone.  I trimmed a bit of overgrowth that was expanding over the stone walkway to my front door.


This is my little work nook in my bedroom.  For the past year or so, I've done all my work from the couch.  I recently rearranged my furniture and moved my desk out from its dusty corner.  Hopefully I will one day replace the desk with a good solid wooden table.  I'm thinking good thoughts and hoping the hot weather goes away so the fan isn't needed.  It's been a warm summer up here so far.

Monday, July 16, 2012



Old

Monday, July 16, 2012

At least once a year all I want to sit down (or go out) and do is make photographs.  I look at old pictures, hoping that there will be some unexplored scrap that I could launch off of.  I feel out of scraps, you know?  A girl without scraps.

I took this picture in 2003.  An old boyfriend and I used to ride around in his car, hoping to end up someplace that we had never been.  We always ended up in the same spot, no matter what roads we took.  I came to realize that you can't get lost in the suburban streets that you grew up in.  But the picture reflects a different side of me that I think I repressed while I was in college.  

I very much became someone who likes to have a specific project they are shooting for; a goal, a theme.  And I've been doing that the past two years now.  But I've also been someone who very much gets caught up in their own head.  My most recent "work" has been literally all about the inside my head: breaking down, building up, being poked, prodded, diagnosed, medicated, followed-up on.  Waiting rooms.  Side effects.  Easy listening.  I'm feeling better and I'm tired of myself.  I'd like to take a drive and just shoot on instinct.

In 2003: it was almost summer, May.  School wasn't yet out for the year.  I was 17.  It seemed like I lived for those drives where I could be the passenger and look at things.  I'm going on a road trip this summer and I can't wait to loosen up.  Sorry for all of the stuffy posts abut exhibitions and whatnot.  I think somewhere along the line I also misplaced my ability to say anything interesting.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012



root beer float

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Sometimes I need a little pick-me-up at work to get me through the day.  This root beer float did the trick.

Thursday, May 3, 2012



went for a stroll

Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Diner - Arlington, MA

I live in a pretty quiet neighborhood.  Not quite suburban and not urban.  We have a stretch of "downtown" with restaurants, shops, and a theatre.  I can walk to the library, the post office, and my favorite Chinese food restaurant.  I spend a good portion of my time just strolling around the town, looking at things.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012



wet day

Wednesday, May 2, 2012


Not a rainy day today, but wet and grey.

Thursday, April 26, 2012



Thursday, April 26, 2012

My first save the date card.  I think that means that I'm an adult now.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012



morning from the bed

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Stay tuned for regular photo updates.

Tuesday, April 24, 2012



instagram

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
I'm pretty new to the Instagram trend.  I've been admiring the yellow-tinted square pictures for quite a while, but I wasn't able to try it out until it came to the Android market.  I resisted for a long time, thinking it kind of gimmicky, but I finally succumbed since it matches my aesthetic almost perfectly.  I never want to be one of those people who completely forgoes using their actual camera and just takes cell phone pictures, but it is rather nice to always have a camera with me to catch the tiny moments, diary style.


My instagram name is kelly_burgess, feel free to follow.