_ cellular corpse/exquisite travels with robert possehl, 2008

In this time-sensitive artistic exchange, artists/writers Robert Possehl & Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein assign photographic intentions to one another via text message and voice mails. Hinged on distance between the midwest and the east coast for 10 days, we record our poetic assignments, frame images within our given spaces, and in doing so, orchestrate cartographic conversations -- imagistic snippets snapped in the digital divide...stay tuned for text/images surfacing as a result of this exchange...

start time/date: february 29th, 2008 12:00 p.m.
end time/date: march 10th, 2008 12:00 p.m.


#1

2/29 12:30 p.m. O'HARE
vm from robert "take a picture of the first image of calm that you see..."
terminal B, gate B9

i asked robert to take a self portrait of himself before he got out of the car. he was on the highway driving south.

#2

3/1
text message, amanda to robert
"take a picture of a moment of warmth as soon as possible," sent in Cambridge, at Longfellow Hall, Appian Way, right after the Rounds, probably around 1 pm, sent in the lobby while trying to say goodbye to people.

#3

3/2
text message at 9.30 sunday morning robert to amanda

dyptic -- order/ordered
self portrait with stranger

text message amanda to robert
3/2/08 5:29 p.m.

brokeness/wholeness
rotting/thriving
take a picture of each in the next 24 hours

sent in the sort of desolate lot where i took the dyptic


text message robert to amanda
3/2/08 5:22 p.m.
'tie first sighting of an eagle-image.'


#4

text message amanda to robert
3/3/08 2:55 p.m.



counter/balance
counter/culture
counter/crush

one of each in 3 hour period
sent in lobby of henrietta's table, at the charles hotel

text message from robert to amanda
'foiled
dysbelied'
received at the bed/muffin in cambridge


#5

text message robert to amanda
3/4/08 12:50 p.m.

'find and photograph fire.
seek it out. happen upon. directed towards'
received while sitting at the gutman library, harvard graduate school of education

#6

text message amanda to robert
lecture on light and the nature of shadows
sent on the train from boston to providence, commuter rail
9:13 p.m.

#7

text message amanda to robert
sent march 6th, 2008 1:10 p.m. from apartment in park slope
"self-portrait with numbers on walls. self-portrait with letters on walls."


#8

text message robert to amanda
"fulcrum. balance. justice -- one or more visually captured" -- sent 3/7 friday 2:38 p.m.


#9

text message from amanda to robert
"today: 'aggressively ordinary" patterns. actions. desires. any, either, all."
sent 3/8 saturday 8:38 a.m.

#10

voice message amanda to robert
sent on sunday 3/9
"up close and very personal" to the point of distraction"