I need your help! link www.jessicapetersonphoto.com by Jessica Peterson

So I did something really stupid, I let me website go for a few months and now google wont read it. If you search my name I am nowhere to be found and because my name the most common name on the planet I have disappeared.

If you would please link my site to your blog post or visit my site a few times within the next few days hopefully I can get back google search...

Thank you!

Jessica

Gone by Jessica Peterson

Cleaned out the rest of the house yesterday. It was strange to be in such a familiar place and have it become so unfamiliar in a matter of hours. I took pictures.


moms guitar
the first time the garage has ever been this clean
wall floor door

my old closet. many nights i sat in this space as a kid...

Bye home. I'll miss you.

Boxes and boxes by Jessica Peterson


This last weekend was the longest ever. My mom moved out of the house we have been in for that last 22 years. I knew it was going to be difficult for me to pack up 22 years of our families history and say goodbye to our childhood home, so I photographed a little bit in hopes it would preserve some of those memories. It was a trip going through boxes of lost treasures.

a favorite book and dress I wore
Bothers karate belts and scout shirt
some old dolls I made and forgot about. Ashley, I had made the white bunny for you, your initials are on the butt.
Jammas Ash made me in Jr High and a Ninja Turtle I got for breaking a bad childhood habbit
Shirt of me, old jammas and a poodle skirt mom made for me for a play in first grade
tiny jacket dad got me when i was a little kiddo

Okay...
This is my baby blanket, I thought this was long gone but I found it. I guess I really needed it as a kid, It was my one true love, I couldn't do a thing without it.



And the drawings!



Old stuff
Grandma stitched pillow and a blanket that my mommas moms friend had made for her.

Sylvia Plath and her words by Jessica Peterson

I like her words although at times they are too sad for me to take.

Here are a few of them...

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
(I wish I had this one tattooed onto my hands)

"The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm."

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
(claire, this one is for you)

"Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and eat men like air."
(and this one makes me smile)

Sandy Skoglund Blows My Mind by Jessica Peterson

For class this week we are talking about using color to our advantage. Today for class I will be showing the students a ton of work that shows how important color can be, of course the first images that came to mind were Sandy Skoglund. She creates the most interesting, beautiful installation pieces and has them photographed.

Honestly amazing and inspiring.




Deer in the headlights ... by Jessica Peterson

I am a deer stuck staring into the headlights (even though it's T in the picture below).

Forks in the road scare the crap out of me if I can't see where they lead. Sometime the forks are small enough that I know either path will work out just fine, but it's the BIG ones that cause me to stop dead in my tracks with legs as useless as my swollen tonsils. I sometimes wish I was a robot and didn't have to choose, I wish there was only one pathway to walk and it was a beautiful one... but nope, I feel and I reap the consequences of my decisions wether they be good or bad.

Well let's look at the bright side... at least deer are cute.