“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” – Matt Hardy

“If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.” – Garry Winogrand

Creating new work for the upcoming Biddeford Art Walk gave me an opportunity to review a variety of photographs I’ve made over the years. In this upcoming body of work, titlted “Private Walk”, I’ve used images I’ve made using a mixed bag of formats: conventional 35mm photography, Polaroids, pinhole cameras and digital means. As connected as we are as humans, especially with the dawn of e-communcations and social media, I feel we’re still struggling at what it truly means to communicate as we persue our own private walks through this life. There are still barriers we struggle with breaking down, whether they’re political, spiritual or racial and our ways of seeing are the ways we take along our journey as we all create our private walks. The photographs below represent my viewpoint along my own personal and private walk.

^ Private Walk, b/w print, Maine, USA

^ Walk, b/w print, Mexico City, Mexico

^ And the band played on. b/w print. Mexico City, Mexico

^ Gary. b/w print on art paper. Brighton, UK.

^ Self Portrait, b/w print, Barcelona, Spain.

^ Fallen Angel series, pinhole camera, Notthingham Cemetary, Notts, UK

Fallen Angel series, pinhole camera, Notthingham Cemetary, Notts, UK

Fallen Angel series, pinhole camera, Notthingham Cemetary, Notts, UK

^ Statues, Crystal Palace Serics, Polaroid, Crystal Palace, London, UK

^ Statues, Crystal Palace Serics, b/w print, Crystal Palace, London, UK

^ Living Room series, b/w print, Nottingham, UK

^ Living Room series, b/w print, Nottingham, UK

^ Don’t Bless War, Polaroid, London West End, London, UK

^ Cottage Window, Polaroid, East Sussex, UK

^ The Door to the Left, Polaroid, East Sussex, UK

^ The Door to the Centre, Polaroid, East Sussex, UK

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For Sam & Annie and all my family and friends in Europe

My little visit to Boston on the coldest day of the year so far to see Eddie Izzard seems to have been just the tonic I needed to get out from under my duvet and back to some outdoor activity. Thing is, though, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE. Yes, I did choose to live in a place where there is a definite “winter”, but I think as I get older, it is getting much colder in my little winter haven. However, this may be the first year in a very long time that Europe also seems to be in the grips of a cold spell and I thought it was time to comiserate with my brethern abroad. Now, I don’t know about anyone else, but there does come a stage in the winter when everything is blanketed in anywhere from 3″ to 3′ of snow and all I can think about is green grass, flowers and warmth, aka spring!

As I head out to my garden today, it is covered in about 4″ of crusted-over, icy snow. However, the thought of what my garden will look like in the first weeks of spring and early summer fills me with a wonder for the icy white stuff and the ground underneath. Below, you can see an image of what my garden borders look like today compared to how they will look like in the spring. And thinking about spring with all the life, warmth and beauty it brings during these cold, cold days (as well as Eddie Izzard) is what keeps most of us who choose to live in a winter wonderland going! If you need to see more flora, please check out my flower gallery at http://www.angelacoulombe.com/flowers.php,
and remember to keep your sunny side up!

^ Garden view in winter

^ Garden view in spring

^ Garden view in winter

^ Garden view in spring

^ Close up view of garden in spring

^ Garden view in spring

^ Garden view in spring

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Baby it’s cold outside. So cold, in fact, I’ve barely been able to stir myself from the depths of my duvet after the bewitching hour of 9pm when we’ve set the thermostat to a temperature conducive to the onset of paralysis. That said, for Eddie Izzard, I would and did kick off the duvet, dawn an extra layer of long-johns, and head to TD Gardens in Boston on the coldest night of the year so far. What is it about Eddie that would motivate one enough to leave the comforts of a well heated house (that is well heated before 9pm) and drive 160 miles on the coldest night of the year for a few blessed hours in his presence? Where do I begin, and how long do you have? Apart from being fabulously funny (in my opinion, his comic genius is unparelled) his activism is testimony to his courage of conviction and personal drive. He’s also become my personal hero and a huge inspiration to me when he ran a seven week marathon through the UK to raise money for Sport Relief beginning on 27 July 2009. In just 51 days he ran 43 marathons. Think of it, the mind boggles!

The last time I had seen his live show was at the Brixton Academy back in the 1990’s. I fell in love with his performance then and have followed his goings on since. His show last night in Boston made my day, my month, possibly my year, and after seeing him, oddly enough, it didn’t seem quite so cold outside anymore.

Eddie Izzard during his performance at TD Garden, Boston, MA, Jan. 12, 2010

Getting a sense of how large the stage and backdrops were.

Couldn’t take my eyes off Eddie(s).

Collecting animals two by two.

Latin as a language, hmm.

Who else can make the f-word sound like a love song?

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