#duovisum

We're coming around, too soon, to a full year of days and weeks and minutes in which Rick Ochoa ( transientrandom ) wasn't here to cheer us on, reveal to us our own selves, and just generically keep all of us 'wrangled'. . . 

I don't know if I knew it at the time, but "Blue" is really just all about him.

And it is even more relatively poignant that the beautiful humanoid in this film is desalle  , as she's always been a bit of my own muse, but was a shared sentiment by Rick, as well.

This was shot in just 4 minutes, no direction, one take and chopped into bits. It really is magic when you see your past, present and future-selves play out in front of you on the screen....and have shared that with someone. 

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. -Desmond Tutu

Model: Holly Rogue

Photo: Carly O’Neil // duovisum - visumconsto - carlyrocksphotography

An in-memoriam set of portraits of the uncomparable Mathias Oppersdorff, with whom I had the pleasure of sabbaticals from the Metropolis of NYC, with a Land Camera and a uniquely, odd but elegant man in the magic that is, lifelong Rhode Island’s South County- where he was a native and resident. 

He is a photographer I posed for a few times and in tiny moments could learn volumes. 

We ate simply- I remember often heading back to NYC and grabbing the first slice I could get my hands on, but for tiny moments in time I could feel the chill of the old home, if not feel the echoes of the Family who had been raised there, and a little Mathias running through the fields, shooting rabbits and the like. As an adult he had set up his own rifle range on-site to continue his family’s joy of the sport. 

 The first photos are in the house he was raised and lived most of his adult life in, when not travelling. In the first photo- he is surrounded by 4+ generations of his family in photographs. 

I can imagine he was ‘quite a looker’ in his day- he always had such a magical way of staring down my camera. A charm, no doubt, that lead to his success in co-mingling with a long list of ‘characters’ in his personal, book-work. 

He worked for Gourmet Magazine for over 18 years! His three books of photography, all published by Syracuse University Press, include, Adirondack Faces, People of the Road: The Irish Travelers (a chronicle of Mr. Oppersdorff’s 26 year involvement with the "gypsy" group in Ireland known as the Travelers), and Under the Spell of Arabia (images from the photographer’s 14 months of travel in Saudi Arabia and the Middle East in the early 1970's).

A friend of Mathias’ had written some lovely things, after Mathias’s passing: 

http://markelpower.tumblr.com/post/43007079270/mo-oppersdorff

{Image Credits Below}

Ripped; Removed Relieved from Duty: no longer the need to counteract the two realities that devolved from the construct and it’s support system.

No Winner when lines are drawn in chalk; the Back and Forth  degrades the Delineated and Frays the tendrils of the short end of a long Rope. Cheaters chide as though one could argue the rules of the game; No matter the calculations: No Victor, here- only the ragged Rightful in restart. (A perfected process from the partitions placed upon and upon and upon until restart becomes muscle memory to allow for the spaces in between to become the only space for the intuitive to elaborate.)

The Sole-Proprietor and The Soul, Seismic Events at epicenter, separating it all into The Infiltrated and The Instigated. Segregating the shadow from the Light; but such as the Sun- That light shall rise again, and with it Beat back the shadow to it’s in-title: Meant not to be seen, but for the Light.

Rise, Light! Lift your starry eyes to the sky and seek the subsequent, suspending disbelief of Self as Rising, Light.

-Carly O’Neil // visuminflecto​ // visumadastra​ // carlyadastra​ April 2015

Self-Portraits, 2015