Sailboats and Swans OOP Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

These images possess the erotic and dreamlike qualities of the films they are taken from and stand on their own as haunting individual glimpses into the artist's imagination

Equipped with a large format view camera

Chelbin searches for a certain expression in which they have almost calmed their breath but not yet fully regained their self-awareness

and clichés of a Californian paradise

Sailboats and Swans OOP Louis Armstrong"There is nothing easy about it. It is a constructed moment, a scene within a scene, the real within the unreal. They are moments, lunga fermata, suspensions of time in the midst of what might otherwise be unbearable. The images are about a kind of discomforttheirs, hers, mine and ours. It is like an old fashioned staring contestone guy looks at the other and the first one who blinks is the loser, except Michal Chelbin never blinks. Instead she