OPEN SPACE
This weekend, on January 15th from 8-11, I will have the opening of my first solo photo exhibition at the beautiful Known Gallery on Fairfax in Los Angeles.
I have been working tirelessly on this collection of images and installations, and my friends Brendan Lynch and Sage Vaughn will also be showing work in the Project room. I got a good look at the final prints the other day before they were sent off to the framer and I can’t begin to say how excited I was to see the body of work all together in its final stages. It was a mix of pure joy and excitement as tears almost filled my eyes as we rolled open the images, one by one, my face grinning ear to ear as each passed by. The gallery is beautiful and the installation is going to be amazing. Please come out and hang, have a drink, find me, say hi, and enjoy the night with a bunch of us.
Thanks to EVERYONE for all the support, including everyone who checks this site out. Below are some words describing the motivation for this collection of images.
“The ocean is and always has been the epicenter of my existence on this planet. I am an aquanaut on a thruster in this ever amazing and boundless liquid energy. I have optimized and streamlined my life to ensure maximum time gliding across water. Every choice and relationship, all decisions and waking thoughts (and most dreams) are influenced and infused by the pull of the tides, the whiff of an offshore breeze, and the lucid corduroy lines gracefully stampeding
towards the coast.
I go to the sea to surf, to bond with friends or to be alone, to let out aggression or to find inner peace. The moving ocean is my solid ground. The moment one stands up on a board, propelled by a wave racing across the sea, one is only aware of the present – nothing else. I have never found any other way to achieve that absolutely pure and meditative mindstate.
Open Space is my expression of the state one falls into while floating weightless off shore, looking out to sea, hoping and waiting for the next set. Troubles are isolated far away on the unreality of land, while you are free in the truest reality of water. It is a timeless unspoilable state that cannot be ruined, not even by the angry local that may be slashing your tires and waxing your windows simply because he doesn’t want to share some waves. To a surfer it’s an understandable
act of necessary evil to keep an ungoverned subculture in form, and from it breaking into full bore beachblanket-bingo havoc.
Open Space is a collection of images, collages, and installations that evoke the balance in my life.”
Cheers,Keegan
identities. 1
My whole life I have feared expectations and intentionally hindered myself to prevent from rising to an occasion. Although a small expectation, the last couple posts were pretty fun ones, and it is a daunting task to try and follow those up.
No more.
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death comes around
I have been very aware of the concept and event of death recently. I think everyone has a certain moment when they are young where they realize death is inevitable. My sister, who is 4 years younger than me, was having a hard time with this realization when she was 7 or 8 years old. I was probably her age when I first thought about death, however, it wasn’t until I saw her fear, that I started to fear death myself. Now, I don’t fear death but accept it as something that is going to come, at some point that I have almost zero control over. Maybe if we were conscious from a very young age, that we were actually all slowly dieing, and that death wasn’t something to fear, but something to gauge how valuable our lives are, we as people would live life as full as possible, and take more chances. I am not positive, but I think it is the emotion of fear that causes people to live so cautiously and safe. The people I admire the most are almost always ones that take those risks and do something different.
I’ve been gone.
I just stumbled upon this welcoming sentiment this morning down the street from my house. Good to see someone is keeping the dream alive. iPhone photo.
New posts coming soon. The waves have been unusually good the past few weeks, and please check out the new launch of We Are Con Artists in the meantime to see some of my friends work along with some of mine.
Penmar
I like to golf. I used to think it was a sport for old stuck up assholes. I kinda still do sometimes, but its really fun with these guys, some of my best friends, Spencer Robins, Karston Demers, Johnny Pease and Jamie Jacobson at the Par 3 Hole #3 at Penmar Municipal.
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rocket
Behold my new plank. Really excited to get on this thing hopefully this weekend. FIrst time I have painted one of my boards in years. Can’t wait to get it to Indo. Fingers crossed…
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