although her response to my current senior portfolio work didnt seem to give any real sense of direction (atleast any that i am particularly ready to follow at this point in time), i did have a very good talk with justine kurland .needless to say we ended up talking more about motherhood than images i project and re-photograph... yet she made the comment that she wanted me to be the little girl again that took the original pictures.....being a product of yale, she has a very specific idea of what photography should be and the techniques that really speak to the traditions of the medium. (while i have my own ideas of what is inherent in the medium)she did however really seem to like my self portraits with miles; these were images i have been taking before and after he was born that i havent shown anyone yet....she said something along the lines of how motherhood, (when done right) can be just as raw as those larry-esque heroin addicts......" you could photograph the shit that gets under your fingernails when you change his diaper" ~kurland