JOSEPH ANDERSON MONDELLO
20 Pictures Of Dee Evetts
poet (2006) What are the aesthetics of failure? When I took a snapshot of my friend the poet Dee Evetts in May of 2006, the autofocus of my camera failed and yielded this image. I immediately took another which came out fine, and yet I kept this picture. When I asked mutual friends "Who is this?" they'd reply "Is that Dee?" Further autofocus failures yielded additional images which I found intriguing, evocative and oddly more memorable than their in-focus counterparts taken but a second later. By deliberately de-focusing the lens I found that something essential in the human form was revealed. No longer distracted by specifics, the eye is drawn to more abstract forms and gestures.
20 Pictures Of Dee Evetts JOSEPH ANDERSON MONDELLO
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DEE EVETTS Poet Dee Evetts was born in London during the Second World War. Evetts left his native England in the 1970s to spend 8 years living in Thailand before travelling to the United States and settling in New York City. Evetts is the founder of the Spring Street Haiku Society, a member of the British Haiku Society and coeditor with Jim Kacian of the XXXXXXX series of Haiku from Red Moon Press. His most recently published work is entitled "Endgrain."
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