May 2026
An eternity we can’t see.
An eternity we can’t keep.
Flowers of the moon,
silver in the sun.
I deny what I’ve become.
For the last four weeks, I have been participating in a workshop called “Writing for Photography,” which is taught by George Weld and facilitated online through the Penumbra Foundation out of NYC.
It has been great so far, and it is helping to drive me out of my slump I’ve been in creatively for months now, since I have been stuck at home recovering from two herniated discs (though I am happy to say things are slowly getting better, and I have been able to spend time almost every day in the mini park next to my apartment).
Of course, as the title of the workshop implies, I have been working a lot with words and how they relate to images lately, and so I needed to get my idle hands busy today and make something.
Inertia is a letter-sized zine printed on kraft paper for the covers, and two different types of rice paper (a thin rice paper for the text, and a thicker one for the images), and bound together with brass fasteners.
I’ve had these “constellation” photos sitting around on my hard drive for about two years now, and they have been bugging me as I want to make more this summer, so I thought I would take a stab at the material I already had and see what I could come up with that would also be good practice for the workshop I am taking.
The results feel good to me for something made in a few hours, and it is giving me ideas of what to try next this summer to add to this body of photographs.
In case anyone is wondering what these images are of, guess!
I am going to keep pushing forward with my explorations of short-form printed matter with images from my archive to practice book-making, sequence, design, and all that good stuff while I still have the spare time to focus on this hobby of mine.
Hope you are all doing well, and that you are fighting the good fight wherever you are!
Take care, Matt.
PS: I accidentally disabled the comments section on my last couple of posts, but that is fixed now.