Selma Eugenia

Photography & Filmmaking Archive and Musings ❧

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Meeting Patti Smith and witnessing her create her work at Kurimanzutto in New York City.

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Thinking about this photograph I found of Angelina Jolie wearing a Woman Under The Influence t-shirt.

What I wrote on Letterboxd after watching the film for the first time:

The moment the opening credits started rolling and the name of Peter Falk appeared before Gena Rowlands’ I knew I was going to have conflicting thoughts on this film. Is there an alternative title for this film that I’m not aware of called ”A municipal construction worker whose woman is under the influence”?

Nonetheless, they were absolutely brilliant together. An honest and raw exploration of midlife mental illness in 1970s America, specifically in suburban housewives. A book worth reading if the subject resonates with you is The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedman.

An excerpt from the opening page of the book:

”The problem lay buried, unspoken, for many years in the minds of American women. It was a strange stirring, a sense of dissatisfaction, a yearning that women suffered in the middle of the twentieth century in the United States. Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night—she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question—”Is this all?”

For over 15 years there was no word of this yearning in the millions of words written about women, for women, in all the columns, books and articles by experts telling women their role was to seek fulfillment as wives and mothers.”

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Sacred space,

Reading Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing

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Search for the perfect heel continues….

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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to."

- Jim Jarmusch

[MovieMaker Magazine #53 - Winter, January 22, 2004]

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Pages from a 1970s Finnish book;

“The Vanishing Beauty of Finnish Peasant Handicraft”.

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what a stylish way to light your cigarette

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European Starlings from my photobook “On Belonging”,

January 2026

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Little boys. 💕 Postcard from my collection, unsent, 1902.

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the trees you grew up with have not forgotten you. their branches still whisper your name in the breeze and their roots remember the paths your feet once traced through their shade.

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Portrait of a heterochromic cat. Postcard from my collection, mailed 1908.

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scythes and detail

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Kathleen Cohen, Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: The Transi Tomb in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance

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Susan Sontag, Photo by Duane Michals, 1959