Category: Photos
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Ascent
The Van Blankenships had a pretty solid weekend. Pat and I climbed the tallest mountain in Arizona on Saturday: Humphrey’s Peak at 12,633 ft. This was quite possibly the hardest physical thing I have ever done. We started the hike at around 8,000 ft and climbed 4.8 miles across roots, boulders, lava rock, loose gravel.…
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Coin Purse – video poem
Coin Purse from Rachel Van Blankenship on Vimeo. My latest video poem. It’s still in the works, I think, but I’ll figure out this whole movie making thing eventually… Enjoy!
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Don't belly flop the art
When I was in NYC, my friend Elyse and I went to the MoMA in hopes of seeing the Rain Room. If you haven’t heard about the Rain Room, it’s, I suppose, a traveling box from London where inside, duh, it’s raining, but all along the floor are sensors so whoever is walking around in…
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Royalty
Remember me royalty in a dive bar New York City where everyone becomes someone and no one all at the same time
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Good Art Day!
New video poem and a photo published. Check it out here Everyone gets free gum courtesy of moi! I’m leaving today for a wedding in Pennsylvania. We’ve been looking forward to this wedding since we left Pennsylvania, so needless to say I’m pretty excited. We’ll be gone the whole week. WHEEEEEEEE! (whenever I do that…
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Say: writing
Take your pen, light it like a cigarette, brace it between your fingertips say: Writing is proof I am not alone, proof I am not standing outside so many closed doors for nothing proof even my voice is a torch sometimes, hope chimes on the porch sometimes, even wind smells like home.