30 Day Photo Challenge – Day 12 – Week Of Colors – Pink

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30 Day Photo Challenge, Art, Blue Lines, Blue Lines Blog, book, Challenge, Colors, Day 1, iPhone, Key Yemaya Walker, Like The Singing Coming Off The Drums, Photography, Pink, poetry, Prose, Sonia Sanchez, Week Of Colors

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Blue Lines Blog: Favorite Prose – Sonia Sanchez

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Blue Lines, Key Yemaya Walker, poetry, Prose, Sonia Sanchez

I gather up
Each sound
You left behind
And stretch them
In my bed
Each nite
I breathe you And become high.
-Sonia Sanchez

The manuscript Blue Lines is the fictional coming of age narrative of a young California woman Key Yemaya Walker, and her 2 year growing journey through school, love, and life period piece, written by Kenneth Suffern, Jr., taking place at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill between the years of 1997 – 1998. Loosely based on true events, and experiences during that time, told through the eyes and voice of the main female protagonist, a freshman first attending the school.

Blue Lines Blog #11 The Artist Interview Kat Goduco pt 1

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Atlanta, Blue Lines, D.C., Josh Smith, Kat Goduco, Kenneth A Suffern Jr, Marcus Fizer, New York, Nikki Giovanni, Photography, poetry, Rise Sushi & Lounge, Sense[Ability], Sonia Sanchez, Venice, Washington Redskins

This week, the Blue Lines Blog has interviewed currently in Atlanta, photographer, poet, jack of many trades extraordinaire, my Pinoy sister Kat Goduco (www.KatGoduco.com).

Q: Describe your current showcase to the fans
KG: Sense[Ability] is a showcase depicts the 5 senses illustrated through photography. It was a collection done for Rise Sushi & Lounge, and is currently being displayed in the restaurant.

Q: Do you ever have photographer’s block and if yes how do you deal with it?
KG: No, there is always an image to be taken.

Q: What types of assignments are you attracted most?
KG: People.

Q: Describe what black and white photography means to you?
KG: Black and white photography captures a real image. It brings out the strengths and you cannot hide the flaws.

Q: Do you think of yourself as an artist and what do you think of the word artist?
KG: Everybody’s an artist, information is displayed differently through each person. And artists is someone with something to say. “I live not to exist, but to express.” That’s also what I want as my first tattoo.

Q: How do you describe your photographic style?
KG: -after a brief pause, Kat’s answer was “lifestyle photojournalist.”