Just Looking Photo

Limbo Baby

long past your epiphany not quite ready for your quia pulvis es your party looks like it already started before your chance to come out   all the smudgy crosses in the world will not wipe away the fat Tuesdays emendemus might as well have another bite of king cake while catching another string of […]

Winter Ostinato

i   i feel you slowing my steps the heaviness in my feet the spinning of the wheels the up and down it must create threads of a different kind   i feel you striking my face the numbness on my cheeks from wind absorbed by my skin like the pointillistic marks of a Sunday […]

Resilience

not all fractures occur suddenly in fact many happen slowly over time the acknowledgement of either process neither augments nor diminishes impact and i’m seeking models of resilience that resonate   recognizing the fracture can cause distress in fact that one realizes something has pulled apart maybe cracked or crumbled separating and i’m still seeking […]

Chicago Serenade

i forgot to be cold again and instead something else happened i don’t know if it was the kind of memory that one feels or smells (like spray starch) or something else because i’ve never really had the kind that people say is like a picture in your head (and what a cruel joke the […]

On Agnosticism

for one to say they do not hold onto belief paradoxically requires it and so the rightness of honesty when resting in the uncertainty of the not knowing now even without knowing one does is

did i ever know you

there is a feeling undefinable but uncomfortable some might call it hiraeth but it even goes further than that for in it is encapsulated an intensity in which one simultaneously refuses to release grasp and yet still seeks to touch that which cannot be consciously recalled recounted regurgitated and so we learn to love the […]

Welcome to Just Looking Photo

I’m glad you’re here. Come to think of it, I’m pretty glad to be here myself. It’s been a long time coming, but thanks to a grant from Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the excellent work of Connor, my web designer, I now have a home online. Honestly, life feels a bit like an Apricot […]

Beth Gillian

Meet self-taught photographer Beth Gilleon. Beth has always liked cameras. In fact, one of her favorite things to have in her hands as a child was an old Sony video camera that used mini cartridges. She still has it in her closet, but doesn’t really use it much any more. Beth really developed her interest […]

Chad Kessler

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Chad Kessler is a web-thinker. It wouldn’t be a very shaky limb, since I spent an hour with him in the delightful funhouse known as 451 Spirits, tucked away in the back of an old commercial building on Oakland Park Avenue, somewhere between Indianola […]

Chris Cropper

Chris Cropper has been creating art for about thirty years in Central Ohio. His early experiences of drawing off in the corner during Baptist youth group Lock-Ins, and drawing late at night in his bedroom helped him to build a well-developed style early on. He believes that his gift was from God, and was present […]