Sucker by Parsley Steinweiss

These days websites, business cards, bios, and books often receive more dedicated time than the actual production of new work. Not necessarily a bad thing, such activities tend to take time. Today I am thinking about names. How much time is wasted tossing our own around, ways we could shift them to make them really pop?

Even in my most self-conscious of moments, my name is the one thing I would never change, I am rather fond of it. In the early stages of my romance with photography, I was sifting through the shelves of a used bookstore and ran across this. Not only did she have my name, her photos looked oddly similar to my own, and, on top of everything, she used my typeface of choice. Since then, my font preferences have changed and so has my work, but to my name I still stand true. But it's always entertaining to think of the possibilities, just like the hours spent practicing our autographs as kids—self-branding can be fun!

Aspiring Hot Shot Parsley Steinweiss does not have a website, instead, a really great name. From Parsley's statement:

I am interested in the microscopic, in what the human eye cannot see on its own, in how organisms behave - how they feed, produce, protect, communicate, decay. In our domestic spaces we deny these organisms and interactions from existing in our minds. We think of ourselves as clean and hygienic. However, our personal spaces are inundated with living organisms - mold, dust mites, sprouting potatoes. I like to imagine the lives of these organisms.

Keep the work up Parsley Steinweiss. As for everyone else, another day has passed. Enter now!