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New Portfolio Page with New Work

Finally, after what seems like forever, I’m back, and I’m beginning to migrate my old “davehebb.com” site and its portfolio contents to this blog site. I’ve added a new page called “portfolio” which currently has only one sub-page for “photography and digital“, which is where all my most recent work is displayed.  Take a look at my newest work, much of which is actually printed and grouped by series – you’ll see some familiar earlier works as well, but with better color, contrast, etc.  As usual, I have big plans to update this site as well, and change the layout to be a little easier to navigate and hopefully not look so cluttered.  Let me know what you think so far!

Narcissus Kisses Sisyphus (or Dave Shaves: A Self Portrait)

A new video work is complete!  This has been a busy week – I’ll add a bunch more stuff that I did a few days ago in the next post, but I wanted to add this video first, as it was a “commission” for my friend Nick for his new short written work titled “daveDave”, which will be performed as a reading along with this video in the Detroit area in the near future, and eventually be published in a limited edition “chapbook” along with the video as a limited edition as well.  More on that as it develops….

This video represents a huge departure for me, in that it actually uses the human form (myself), and it is not directly dealing with the natural landscape and industrial/technological infrastructure as a subject, but is metaphorical in its representation of natural phenomena – namely the growth of hair as a metaphor for the seemingly infinite renewal power inherent in Nature.  More chatter after you view the video:


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