Building This Thing.....

Pop ups begging you to sign up for a newsletter. Invitations to "Like" this page on Facebook twitter or whatever. When I was building this thing, i had an epiphany: those weren't irritations- those were choices. Somebody, at sometime, somehow actually thought what a good idea it would be for a visitor trying to leave a site to instead get a pop-up request to sign up for a newsletter. Many someones, in fact. Just as many someones all over the internet see nothing wrong in leading you to a site or even a page with no content.

Obviously, I'm cheating a bit, including a 'starter kit' of posts that are older than this site, but I figure that if it's relevant to how I paint and how I see, it's better than there being no there there, even if it was written a few years ago. Because I don't care that you've dressed it up with a cute little emoji of a bulldozer and a 'page under construction' note- an empty link is a waste of time. If your website isn't ready for prime time, don't tease.

When I talked about building a website for my paintings, a friend suggested that I should also have a space featuring my photography, so my intent is to use this blog page as that space. We'll see how it works.

Oh- and here's a picture of a bulldozer, if it makes you happy:

March 23, 2017

Tonle Sap, Cambodia

March 23, 2017/ Kedrin MacKenzie

Cambodia, the first time: Super-saturated colors- jungle greens built by monsoon rains, temples red from iron leached into sandstone.

And the lake:

It was the end of the rainy season, when the lake is four times its dry-season size and this same location would be drained and dusty.

I have been back to Cambodia in other seasons, and re-visited many of these sites, finding, of course, changes- the vine growing up the temple just a bit thicker. That waterfall a trickle in the dry season. The greens somewhat staler. But I haven't returned to the lake. Photos fix moments in time- even when the subjects overwrite themselves and move on. I'd like to keep the lake fixed- as blue as it is in these photos, and not overwrite it with the bleached browns of dusty, abandoned streets.

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