Sunshine Hair

Self Portrait by Erika Flynn, 2017

Home Garden

Photographs by Erika Flynn

I love the time of year when the lilacs leave thick mats of fallen blossoms on the ground. This spring carpet is a fine luxury. I leave the irises to spend their blooms away. Their stalks and molting brown petals are so enchanting. On the night I took these photos the air was damp and heavy. It was low tide and I could smell the wet seaweed on the beach all the way down the block.

Goblin Gloaming

"Goblin Gloaming" by Erika Flynn, 2014

Blue gloaming pushes at the yellow light melting in from the next room. Fall brings a chill when the sharpest colds are still distant enough to feel romantic.
Red silk Wren turtleneck.

Café Table

Here's a recent project: a set of three 5-layer stencils. I was commissioned by a Café owned by three badass women to paint one of their tabletops! It was really rewarding to get back into spray-paint. I love the process of thinking in reverse when cutting the stencils. There are so many ways you can represent ideas with layers of shapes - and you can further stylize with the application of the paint itself. One of my favorite areas is the lace fringe on the end of the Pirate's cloak, which is covered by the coffee creamers in this photo. The Café had requested a "street art" design. I twisted this aesthetic slightly to riff on Japanese Manga line work.

I started with a treatment of gesso to the raw fiber-board table, then used a concrete colored paint for the base (about two cans). Each figure had a golden focal-point representing their powers.

The whole project was completed in around 60 hours this past summer. I ate at the Café the other night and finally saw it in action.

Photographs by Erika Flynn

Winturd

Photographs by Erika Flynn

Here I am, sporting a thin veil of patience while I wait for the arrival of Spring. In a month or so, I'll be knocking pollen out of these old cushions and sharing a sunny spot next to the dozing neighborhood cat. Yes, I can almost hear the tinkling of ice in my Campari...

Also, I cut my hair! I wanted to look like a little German boy. It looks like a mushroom cap / Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber / early Beatles mop.

Trannnnsforrrmm!

My once deep emerald green hair has now become an earthy cornhusk green. In a weird way, it almost looks natural. The color has never looked the same twice. It's been a little over a month since my initial dye job and I have a good half-inch of dark roots now.

One of my favorite features in the bathroom is the glitched-out pattern of tile on the wall. I imagine that the person responsible was probably shooting for a uniform job but got lost somewhere along the way.

Previously faded hair after a ruby-red dye job: 

Initial colors for both:

Goodbye Summer

Shot with an old plastic MAXIM 101X 35mm.
After developing a trial roll of film was completely blasted by a light leak, I taped up most of this camera's body with painter's tape and didn't remove it until the film had been wound back into its canister.

I then brought this old plastic camera with me to visit my family at the beach. I wasn't even sure if my tape experiment would work so I was completely careless with my photo-taking. Many of these pictures were snapped by curious friends and relatives who found the Franken-camera sitting around  and wanted to see if it worked. The resulting photos ended up capturing this summer weekend nicely.