Lensculture article is live, and only 4 days to go on Kickstarter!

The thoughtful article by writer/artist Liz Sales is live on Lensculture, and already some photographers have been getting in touch after seeing the work there. It is very cool to connect with some new people through this article, which I hope will be seen by photographers all over the world, since Lensculture is such an international site.

Incredibly, I am nearing the final stretch, and it looks like my book Pseudologia will be fully funded. It’s been scary, exciting and so affirming. Now that I can see the finish line I feel like I can finally take a breath. It’s been a marathon of self-promotion, which does not come easily to me. Self-promotion should be easier going forward, but I hope not to have to push like this again anytime soon. It’s also a crazy time between COVID19 and pushing for police reform, so I am just incredibly grateful for the interest in the work.

Link to Lensculture article: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/rebecca-horne-pseudologia

Kickstarter is heartwarming and hair-raising experience

It has been so incredible to re-connect and connect for the first time with people about my work. It really is profound for me—it is true that since my solo show in 2006 at Roebling Hall in NYC, and a group show in San Francicso’s City Hall in 2013, I really haven’t shown my work to anyone other than a few friends, and on my blog, for over 10 years.

I was making work though, steadily, through all that time—I was not showing it, but I was making it. Which was pretty lonely, except when I worked with friends as models. Being a solo parent when Oliver was little really did require the rest of my time. In those days, I raked myself over the coals—was there something wrong with me, why didn’t I get out there and show/share the work? Didn’t I want to succeed? But I see now I was being hard on myself. I really couldn’t do it all, especially with a young child.

The Kickstarter has been affirming and also a little hair-raising. Perhaps more so now that I am nearing the end of the campaign. Most days, I check the status of the Kickstarter, and see how I am inching forward, and bite my nails while I worry about reaching the funding goal. Just 11 days to go!

To reach the goal will be an incredible boost for me—not only will I have the satisfaction of the completion of a project that has been in the works for 4 years, but I will be certain that yes, there are a fair amount of people who like my work and are interested in it. After working alone for so long this is monumental. Kickstarter link: https://bit.ly/36ZOTiH

17 days to go!

I continue to be amazed and grateful at the interest in the book.

This past week I was interviewed by a super smart, cool and talented writer/artist, Liz Sales. She will be posting about Pseudologia on Lensculture sometime soon. I look forward to sharing the link when this goes live. I found myself in the position of answering that predictable final question in an interview, one I often have posed myself: “Is there anything you want to add?” So I mentioned that my father was an archeologist, and that going on digs with him as a child was formative. I remember all the forensic details around a ceramic shard, or a bit of stone, and how much could be reconstructed, filled in, imagined or understood from this one piece. I think this process does have something in common with the creative processes I use today.

I've been a working single mom since my son was 3, and I have continued to make artwork during that entire time. It has only been in the past two years, now that my son is a teenager, that I have been able to start sharing my work--for better or for worse, this campaign is a little bit of a coming out for me as an artist. So it is especially meaningful to me when people show interest or support the work. THANK YOU.

Pseudologia launched

Today is the second day of my Kickstarter campaign for my book Pseudologia. I can’t pretend that right now feels like a good time to launch a Kickstarter for an art book. Coronavirus is ravaging the world, hate crimes are being committed by those in power, protesters are risking their lives to have their voices heard, and our President is doing all he can to divide the country and destroy democracy while looting what he can from the American people.

Right now I wish I was the kind of artist who could make work about current events. But that isn’t who I am as an artist. I can’t ‘decide’ to make anything, it just never works. I have to let the process lead. My brain isn’t good at directing my art process consciously. At least, I know I’ve never made anything good that way. And I know it can’t sustain my interest over time. That’s not to say I can’t get involved in other ways in what is happening now, because I can and I do.

I am not yet posting on social media about this campaign. I know I should be, but it just feels irrelevant at this particularly sharp moment to be talking about my artwork. Nonetheless, people are looking for a few moments of inspiration, and many are still stuck at home. And art can provide respite and a reminder that we are capable of good things. Link to my Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rebeccahorne/pseudologia/