Thursday, November 26, 2009

Thanksgiving Game: Macy's Day Parade or Burning Man?



Thursday, November 19, 2009

mobile documentation

Monday, November 2, 2009

Nevada Temptation




















For more images and thoughts on the romance novels check out the SNC/FA Blog Post "Nevada Temptation Thanks Chris for the images and thoughts.
Here are some images Chris took:

Sunday, November 1, 2009

The West: Romance


















A few hundred romance novels have recently come in to my possession. I love thinking about the western landscape as a place that humans project their desires on to. I have loved reading the almanac from Silverland Gallery run by Leah Ruby. When displaying these fine specimens of 1980's western lust, I also included a page of the almanac. Sorry the photos are blurry.


















Here are some other ideas that I like about the novels:

-their background images create wonderful western landscapes as dyptics.
- for a novel to fit in to the literary camp of romance it needs to end happily. This guaranteed happy ending is a kind of safety structure that interest me.
- they are written by women for women
-they are escapism literature which always becomes very popular during bad economic times, like now.


















































Sorry for the pathetic documentation.. will try to post some better images.