Year: 2015

Lee Miller in uniform.

From the astonishing, unmissable exhibition Lee Miller’s Second World War at the Imperial War Museum.

If you don’t know about Lee Miller (Vogue cover girl, surrealist, Man Ray collaborator, muse, mischief maker, artist, war photographer, existing at the intersection of major world events & lives for decades) I urge you to read the available biographies. If you do know about her, don’t miss this show.

1994 model of “The Ghetto” – two streets in Hackney squatted by artists who later successfully prevented the council from tearing down the derelict neighborhood. London Fields is now subject to hyper gentrification, with prices of these units averaging over £1 million pounds.

Museum of London

Dollhouse reconstructing the life of a family during WWII.

From A Family in Wartime, Imperial War Museum, London.

On January 7, 1983 I was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the second room on the left. I was 12 years old, my mother was 30. I was sick, but she was alone with a dying kid; it is very hard to imagine that moment, even though I remember it. Even standing in front of the building.

Stumbling around Kitsap County in a haze of grief, confused and amazed that so many things look the same.

Hometown sunrise. USS Turner Joy in foreground.