https://jessehowarth.cargo.site Jesse Howarth Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:48:22 +0000 https://jessehowarth.cargo.site en https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/home-1 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:01:51 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/home-1 Weathervane with built-in-obsolescence. Site-specific installation, Marquette, Nebraska, 2022 https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/i-m-thinking-about-photos Mon, 18 May 2026 21:04:31 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/i-m-thinking-about-photos <img width="1698" height="1214" width_o="1698" height_o="1214" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b362f581e2751401a5c41ef597bba4eb67a24c6c30eab0da89a8b57988832e37/Screenshot-2026-05-18-at-8.15.26-pm.png" data-mid="248449184" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b362f581e2751401a5c41ef597bba4eb67a24c6c30eab0da89a8b57988832e37/Screenshot-2026-05-18-at-8.15.26-pm.png" />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; how do you capture something that refuses to be fixed? <img width="2876" height="1616" width_o="2876" height_o="1616" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/54707845144b12aabfcb0b9c27784298176a1617a13e53b96802efecf4d02ed8/Screenshot-2026-05-18-at-5.38.24-pm.png" data-mid="248449187" border="0" data-scale="91" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/54707845144b12aabfcb0b9c27784298176a1617a13e53b96802efecf4d02ed8/Screenshot-2026-05-18-at-5.38.24-pm.png" /> Work in development: A besuited academic delivers a formal PowerPoint presentation on a series of queer photographs salvaged from a long-deleted Tumblr blog. The photographs, however, are imaginary, and the PowerPoint is blank. The performance dwells not on the truth or existence of an image, but on the desire to be recognised, represented and remembered through photography. Documentation from informal scratch night performance at The NewBridge Project, 2026 <img width="6611" height="9344" width_o="6611" height_o="9344" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d87870272a8f1f3aab7483ac0c5f911dcc0825140f9c5338a05206124930c606/im-thinking-about-photos-scan-.jpg" data-mid="249110125" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d87870272a8f1f3aab7483ac0c5f911dcc0825140f9c5338a05206124930c606/im-thinking-about-photos-scan-.jpg" /> <img width="6611" height="9344" width_o="6611" height_o="9344" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f0aff692d7e5a97899f1b47e5c87f16c3b31ef5aa0ce61e6cd91876a3b0e610e/im-thinking-about-photos-scan--2.jpg" data-mid="249110124" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f0aff692d7e5a97899f1b47e5c87f16c3b31ef5aa0ce61e6cd91876a3b0e610e/im-thinking-about-photos-scan--2.jpg" /> <img width="6611" height="9344" width_o="6611" height_o="9344" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7af469c6dd3ece009fefea2c168319b9863e8adf02af7f485cefa1a0caa87fd6/im-thinking-about-photos-scan-3.jpg" data-mid="249110126" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7af469c6dd3ece009fefea2c168319b9863e8adf02af7f485cefa1a0caa87fd6/im-thinking-about-photos-scan-3.jpg" /> . https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/Punctum Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:48:22 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/Punctum <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2fe7db5f29bed7f34d41ed63845324438bfe503e4332db1e80bc7e87617313fe/IMG_3527.jpeg" data-mid="249109880" border="0" alt="Punctum. Projection onto a smear of butter on a window in Heaton, Newcastle 2023" data-caption="Punctum. Projection onto a smear of butter on a window in Heaton, Newcastle 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2fe7db5f29bed7f34d41ed63845324438bfe503e4332db1e80bc7e87617313fe/IMG_3527.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6fc8dc7f61ed7f0aefd1bc78d0b1854937616d4b614e1b800cf92c41b2241a19/IMG_3572.jpeg" data-mid="249109737" border="0" alt="Punctum. Projection onto a smear of butter on a window in Heaton, Newcastle 2023" data-caption="Punctum. Projection onto a smear of butter on a window in Heaton, Newcastle 2023" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6fc8dc7f61ed7f0aefd1bc78d0b1854937616d4b614e1b800cf92c41b2241a19/IMG_3572.jpeg" /> https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/Bit Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:41:55 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/Bit <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4978dd07207efe04de8adac7674fa08cb393dde5000721a00c37f25c9a7588d5/giles-b--46.jpg" data-mid="229787526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4978dd07207efe04de8adac7674fa08cb393dde5000721a00c37f25c9a7588d5/giles-b--46.jpg" /><img width="992" height="1502" width_o="992" height_o="1502" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ea99b91cf5278c95d79f0f48025fc8c9a1b03ce25a89cb980160a40c89c0105/3FA70C51-1D5F-4C70-88C1-3FC3251FF52E_1_201_a.jpeg" data-mid="229788047" border="0" data-scale="99" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/992/i/7ea99b91cf5278c95d79f0f48025fc8c9a1b03ce25a89cb980160a40c89c0105/3FA70C51-1D5F-4C70-88C1-3FC3251FF52E_1_201_a.jpeg" /><img width="3067" height="4603" width_o="3067" height_o="4603" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b17d7fcd5fc22f9e80717729fbac2dbb8d39d71780cc3048247d962b545ad70/giles-b--47.jpg" data-mid="229787639" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b17d7fcd5fc22f9e80717729fbac2dbb8d39d71780cc3048247d962b545ad70/giles-b--47.jpg" /> &nbsp; Bit, ongoing (since 2022.)live performance, duration 5 minutes Sweet iron, mild steel, video, acrylic nails, patina, smoked figured eucalyptus veneer. She wants to talk about photographs. She wants to say:I like to imagine slug-snail tentacles unfurling like a punctum, extending out into space. I like to prise the picture from its shell, pull its soft body out. &nbsp; She wants to lean in closer over the table, right up to your ear and whisper:I’m gonna suck this punctum up into my mouth and let it coat my gullet. I’m gonna take the little snail and swallow it down whole. It's funny to think of a hole as a lack. Have you ever put your fingers inside one? Bit is a quiet performance, it’s tender but uncomfortable, a little sexy. Bit is about the feeling of being obsessed with other people's photos. It is a physical attempt to become one with a photograph. The performer chomps at the bit onto which is projected a video of their fingers running over glossy pages of photographs. Bit explores the queer gaze, a desire for images of one’s own desire. The screen is made from mild steel, known in equestrian circles as ‘sweet iron’ due to its use in horse bits. Supposedly the steel rusts in the horse’s saliva and tastes sweet, compelling the animal to accept the bit, and submit to the rider’s control. During Bit the performer is locked in an enduring kiss. We watch their hands caress the metal screen as though it's an unyielding lover. Polished fingernails stylise and weaponise the hands, exaggerating their movements. The initial performance of the work is stippled with symbolism questioning what makes something visibly queer? But each performer brings something different to the work. Lucas with his bitten nails, wrists looped in silver, wears the artist's rings and iridescent polish on his fingers, trying on her yearning for size.&nbsp; https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/Quarter-marks Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:11:57 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/Quarter-marks <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb2b89f811bad0b880a1112df3114b36a4e56c1c6f6afc5d115105b5a46201a2/giles-b--49.jpg" data-mid="186330201" border="0" alt="Kissing screens and Punctum for Del LaGrace Volcano, Curated alongside work by Rosalind Duguid. 2022" data-caption="Kissing screens and Punctum for Del LaGrace Volcano, Curated alongside work by Rosalind Duguid. 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb2b89f811bad0b880a1112df3114b36a4e56c1c6f6afc5d115105b5a46201a2/giles-b--49.jpg" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/72be3adb50feaa8065cacd96be74a548e1992d240fce657cb6f34f674f065191/giles-b--5.jpg" data-mid="186330210" border="0" alt=" Kissing screens, detail (Plywood, sapelli, MDF, resin wood filler, mild steel.) 2022" data-caption=" Kissing screens, detail (Plywood, sapelli, MDF, resin wood filler, mild steel.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/72be3adb50feaa8065cacd96be74a548e1992d240fce657cb6f34f674f065191/giles-b--5.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd18f9a21c941d7f545be685a40aedf68e381dc2bdf7e348c0a0bdccf23f4ab9/IMG_0772.jpeg" data-mid="186330208" border="0" alt="Punctum for Del LaGrace Volcano (Bronze, hammered mild steel.) 2022" data-caption="Punctum for Del LaGrace Volcano (Bronze, hammered mild steel.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fd18f9a21c941d7f545be685a40aedf68e381dc2bdf7e348c0a0bdccf23f4ab9/IMG_0772.jpeg" /> <img width="3185" height="4778" width_o="3185" height_o="4778" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86acf5296f9192b9ac30a93b14823b03a277369da8f7c9e2dffd16093eca2890/giles-b--1.jpg" data-mid="186330188" border="0" alt="Horse (Sapelli, smoked figured eucalyptus, beeswax.) 2022" data-caption="Horse (Sapelli, smoked figured eucalyptus, beeswax.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/86acf5296f9192b9ac30a93b14823b03a277369da8f7c9e2dffd16093eca2890/giles-b--1.jpg" /> <img width="5133" height="3422" width_o="5133" height_o="3422" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ce285dacf497adad380b987189338cca04e4a8c4d5713f44d83108181c12127/giles-b--34.jpg" data-mid="186330193" border="0" alt=" Blank Screen (MDF, sapelli, mild steel.) 2022" data-caption=" Blank Screen (MDF, sapelli, mild steel.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ce285dacf497adad380b987189338cca04e4a8c4d5713f44d83108181c12127/giles-b--34.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/129a37b4da00f5e8379d99ebad4620472e0598ae572c6036d1034d80f6602fa1/giles-b--19.jpg" data-mid="186330191" border="0" alt=" Blank Screen (MDF, sapelli, mild steel.) 2022" data-caption=" Blank Screen (MDF, sapelli, mild steel.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/129a37b4da00f5e8379d99ebad4620472e0598ae572c6036d1034d80f6602fa1/giles-b--19.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f6ff825aa302058c51c0d430dc6d0df243838a7f250bbc1fc14605419719831/giles-b--42.jpg" data-mid="186330197" border="0" alt=" Speech Marks (MDF, resin wood filler.) 2022" data-caption=" Speech Marks (MDF, resin wood filler.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f6ff825aa302058c51c0d430dc6d0df243838a7f250bbc1fc14605419719831/giles-b--42.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ca0354f4780d7a4143800d1de6b2b5092a99972ed727862e650ebfcdac13bc23/giles-b--39.jpg" data-mid="186330195" border="0" alt=" Speech Marks reverse (MDF, resin wood filler.) 2022" data-caption=" Speech Marks reverse (MDF, resin wood filler.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ca0354f4780d7a4143800d1de6b2b5092a99972ed727862e650ebfcdac13bc23/giles-b--39.jpg" /> <img width="3996" height="2997" width_o="3996" height_o="2997" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f2dcb5b4db6770e034ef0997d7eef9c4258147872f733b4fd7c705940c07dbef/giles-b--43.jpg" data-mid="186330198" border="0" alt=" Lean In (MDF, sapelli and ephemera) 2022" data-caption=" Lean In (MDF, sapelli and ephemera) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f2dcb5b4db6770e034ef0997d7eef9c4258147872f733b4fd7c705940c07dbef/giles-b--43.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/385dad451c8d584c67bf934f6c6f17689ea799fab9edd30e0cbc59137f044a3c/giles-b--44.jpg" data-mid="186330199" border="0" alt=" Lean In (MDF, sapelli and ephemera, (Digital print photographs courtesy of Phyllis Christopher, pencil drawing on paper, silver foil punctum, masking tape, blue tac.) 2022" data-caption=" Lean In (MDF, sapelli and ephemera, (Digital print photographs courtesy of Phyllis Christopher, pencil drawing on paper, silver foil punctum, masking tape, blue tac.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/385dad451c8d584c67bf934f6c6f17689ea799fab9edd30e0cbc59137f044a3c/giles-b--44.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/369879c36362ac0d57ffc3f3abe8692f95f92db93592ab475e08a3191b558795/IMG_5173.jpg" data-mid="186330206" border="0" alt="Laser Etching on Plywood, 2022" data-caption="Laser Etching on Plywood, 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/369879c36362ac0d57ffc3f3abe8692f95f92db93592ab475e08a3191b558795/IMG_5173.jpg" /> <img width="6000" height="4000" width_o="6000" height_o="4000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8737b3c0f5b4e863514532b102bd28ca7103526af36c2f8be84c8d77ba7e8dcb/giles-b--37.jpg" data-mid="186330194" border="0" alt=" Quarter Marks (Plywood, resin wood filler.) 2022" data-caption=" Quarter Marks (Plywood, resin wood filler.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8737b3c0f5b4e863514532b102bd28ca7103526af36c2f8be84c8d77ba7e8dcb/giles-b--37.jpg" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d33e5c10b2878740e4adfdab586ac30ea3b5357df2f3182cff88dca02b7da6ed/Screenshot-2023-07-26-at-7.58.33-pm.png" data-mid="186333006" border="0" alt="sweet-iron-desire (video projection on MDF screen, black satin household paint.) 2022" data-caption="sweet-iron-desire (video projection on MDF screen, black satin household paint.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d33e5c10b2878740e4adfdab586ac30ea3b5357df2f3182cff88dca02b7da6ed/Screenshot-2023-07-26-at-7.58.33-pm.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6913e3b3adf66c9a636834e8aec9255f0bf4c99c36ec929bb8af34fe76b77b5/Screenshot-2023-07-26-at-7.58.13-pm.png" data-mid="186333005" border="0" alt="sweet-iron-desire (video projection on MDF screen, black satin household paint.) 2022" data-caption="sweet-iron-desire (video projection on MDF screen, black satin household paint.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6913e3b3adf66c9a636834e8aec9255f0bf4c99c36ec929bb8af34fe76b77b5/Screenshot-2023-07-26-at-7.58.13-pm.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eac3fc530f009e678a52c217925ec991b7c7041c10c2f012c270a25e7ae683aa/Screenshot-2023-07-26-at-7.57.22-pm.png" data-mid="186333002" border="0" alt="sweet-iron-desire (video projection on MDF screen, black satin household paint.) 2022" data-caption="sweet-iron-desire (video projection on MDF screen, black satin household paint.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eac3fc530f009e678a52c217925ec991b7c7041c10c2f012c270a25e7ae683aa/Screenshot-2023-07-26-at-7.57.22-pm.png" /> <img width="3456" height="5184" width_o="3456" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4978dd07207efe04de8adac7674fa08cb393dde5000721a00c37f25c9a7588d5/giles-b--46.jpg" data-mid="186330200" border="0" alt="Bit, live performance dur 5min, (Sweet iron, mild steel, video, mouth, hands, acrylic nails, patina, smoked figured eucalyptus veneer.) 2022" data-caption="Bit, live performance dur 5min, (Sweet iron, mild steel, video, mouth, hands, acrylic nails, patina, smoked figured eucalyptus veneer.) 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4978dd07207efe04de8adac7674fa08cb393dde5000721a00c37f25c9a7588d5/giles-b--46.jpg" /> <img width="3067" height="4603" width_o="3067" height_o="4603" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b17d7fcd5fc22f9e80717729fbac2dbb8d39d71780cc3048247d962b545ad70/giles-b--47.jpg" data-mid="186330209" border="0" alt="Bit, live performance (Sweet iron, mild steel, video, mouth, hands, acrylic nails, patina, smoked figured eucalyptus veneer.) 2022 " data-caption="Bit, live performance (Sweet iron, mild steel, video, mouth, hands, acrylic nails, patina, smoked figured eucalyptus veneer.) 2022 " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b17d7fcd5fc22f9e80717729fbac2dbb8d39d71780cc3048247d962b545ad70/giles-b--47.jpg" /> https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/weathervane Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:33:47 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/weathervane <img width="5184" height="3888" width_o="5184" height_o="3888" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c2a2aa74211df8ab30e76c6bccba7349a1015f91275fdb4f5372648a7fd3dd25/weathervane-1.jpg" data-mid="186333606" border="0" alt="Weathervane-with-built-in-obsolescence (Mild steel, stripped hazelnut) Site specific installation, Nebraska USA. 2022" data-caption="Weathervane-with-built-in-obsolescence (Mild steel, stripped hazelnut) Site specific installation, Nebraska USA. 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c2a2aa74211df8ab30e76c6bccba7349a1015f91275fdb4f5372648a7fd3dd25/weathervane-1.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e7e313de248a9cf5ab4157e8bdda1c52358de764ad60f6c7fcce983fbf25bf9b/weathervane-3.jpg" data-mid="186333608" border="0" alt="Weathervane-with-built-in-obsolescence (Mild steel, stripped hazelnut) Site specific installation, Nebraska USA. 2022" data-caption="Weathervane-with-built-in-obsolescence (Mild steel, stripped hazelnut) Site specific installation, Nebraska USA. 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e7e313de248a9cf5ab4157e8bdda1c52358de764ad60f6c7fcce983fbf25bf9b/weathervane-3.jpg" /> <img width="3888" height="5184" width_o="3888" height_o="5184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be82a548bdb495da81daa3afdf26c3ff0295a345036af2cdd6b2afd7243f0d24/weathevane-2.jpg" data-mid="186333673" border="0" alt="Weathervane-with-built-in-obsolescence (Mild steel, stripped hazelnut) Site specific installation, Nebraska USA. 2022" data-caption="Weathervane-with-built-in-obsolescence (Mild steel, stripped hazelnut) Site specific installation, Nebraska USA. 2022" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be82a548bdb495da81daa3afdf26c3ff0295a345036af2cdd6b2afd7243f0d24/weathevane-2.jpg" /> <img width="2708" height="3611" width_o="2708" height_o="3611" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e55c904d52a40d9eb982ee2d42f45ffd58de20c72529b4f21b54459f3a6e383/IMG_0438.jpeg" data-mid="186334669" border="0" alt="Sketch on paper from an old barn" data-caption="Sketch on paper from an old barn" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e55c904d52a40d9eb982ee2d42f45ffd58de20c72529b4f21b54459f3a6e383/IMG_0438.jpeg" /> https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/EYEBALL Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:33:47 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/EYEBALL Two channel video – 2020. Footage shot during residency at Art Farm Nebraska, 2019. Content Warning: Contains Xenophobic language and images of animal butchery https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/in-progress Thu, 20 Jul 2023 17:33:47 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/in-progress <img width="2048" height="1536" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/250b2e46ad246e0c44b8734a40de24e8c45444360553399a25648124c7911bcb/CDC3A788-8B48-43DC-84E3-E349F7C998A5_1_102_o.jpeg" data-mid="219999614" border="0" alt="Gazing Paintings (WIP). Oil, acrylic, bin bag, newsprint and tape on canvas. 2021-2025-?" data-caption="Gazing Paintings (WIP). Oil, acrylic, bin bag, newsprint and tape on canvas. 2021-2025-?" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/250b2e46ad246e0c44b8734a40de24e8c45444360553399a25648124c7911bcb/CDC3A788-8B48-43DC-84E3-E349F7C998A5_1_102_o.jpeg" /> <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0319848e6906c69962f0f4a6786f17d026ae02b0434b7ca332107ea4dccbeae/Untitled-presentation-2.jpg" data-mid="229567400" border="0" alt="Film Still. Currently developing a process of inkjet printed, scanned film negatives, created from digital video." data-caption="Film Still. Currently developing a process of inkjet printed, scanned film negatives, created from digital video." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/960/i/b0319848e6906c69962f0f4a6786f17d026ae02b0434b7ca332107ea4dccbeae/Untitled-presentation-2.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bc3f01d5b4f948c8a6d601aea0aa9ac4488b4877289840b5a0fe380c01d24d48/IMG_2776.jpeg" data-mid="186715491" border="0" alt="Sticky Wall. 2023." data-caption="Sticky Wall. 2023." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bc3f01d5b4f948c8a6d601aea0aa9ac4488b4877289840b5a0fe380c01d24d48/IMG_2776.jpeg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/451a90859f1c64355fd6d8e1133386e70cdc17e77cb3aab6afd7e45fc1b21915/IMG_3527.jpeg" data-mid="229568356" border="0" alt="Punctum. Projection and butter on window, installation behind. 2023." data-caption="Punctum. Projection and butter on window, installation behind. 2023." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/451a90859f1c64355fd6d8e1133386e70cdc17e77cb3aab6afd7e45fc1b21915/IMG_3527.jpeg" /> <img width="1024" height="768" width_o="1024" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/544c034d9ee25d44e77e1f31c117b17c0ea39b288bcd90a42af235825c5b347a/2CFD6978-CE38-43D4-9465-D5E70A6A493B_1_105_c.jpeg" data-mid="200361669" border="0" alt="Punctum. Projection and butter on window, installation behind. 2023." data-caption="Punctum. Projection and butter on window, installation behind. 2023." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/544c034d9ee25d44e77e1f31c117b17c0ea39b288bcd90a42af235825c5b347a/2CFD6978-CE38-43D4-9465-D5E70A6A493B_1_105_c.jpeg" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/48318986eda6c1ef728ee578ca7c43fa1ab59e513484554a2de8c9251d400eca/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-8.24.03-pm.png" data-mid="229567782" border="0" alt="Trick. Oil, acrylic and iridescent medium on MDF and woodfiller. 2025." data-caption="Trick. Oil, acrylic and iridescent medium on MDF and woodfiller. 2025." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/48318986eda6c1ef728ee578ca7c43fa1ab59e513484554a2de8c9251d400eca/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-8.24.03-pm.png" /> <img width="3017" height="2449" width_o="3017" height_o="2449" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e49e869e65dd819133adad36af0f07c9053b11aa9bfad11250c6e27c3dcde982/IMG_1791.jpeg" data-mid="186171950" border="0" alt="Bit Bits. WIP casting materials and sketches. 2023." data-caption="Bit Bits. WIP casting materials and sketches. 2023." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e49e869e65dd819133adad36af0f07c9053b11aa9bfad11250c6e27c3dcde982/IMG_1791.jpeg" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ad0972b53196dc245d9574c5d0c8aba8d21d5f1a5b4c033cca6876330ec374d/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-8.12.16-pm.png" data-mid="229567547" border="0" alt="Gazing painting (WIP) Oil on canvas. 2022-2025-?" data-caption="Gazing painting (WIP) Oil on canvas. 2022-2025-?" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ad0972b53196dc245d9574c5d0c8aba8d21d5f1a5b4c033cca6876330ec374d/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-8.12.16-pm.png" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ad669daf962c67167c84fa76a4661d92bfbc18b90b43516ab089ac8e99d6f1e6/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-8.18.25-pm.png" data-mid="229567697" border="0" alt="Haunch. MDF, wood filler, graphite, hammered iron hook, pin. 2024." data-caption="Haunch. MDF, wood filler, graphite, hammered iron hook, pin. 2024." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ad669daf962c67167c84fa76a4661d92bfbc18b90b43516ab089ac8e99d6f1e6/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-8.18.25-pm.png" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3a7a6e45cc3add5f7ea8a0a84779a662defe08f9a858ec51fef30d2c40c29c75/IMG_0156.jpeg" data-mid="216878544" border="0" alt="Studio. 2024" data-caption="Studio. 2024" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3a7a6e45cc3add5f7ea8a0a84779a662defe08f9a858ec51fef30d2c40c29c75/IMG_0156.jpeg" /> <img width="3862" height="2896" width_o="3862" height_o="2896" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/737de6c3ae6eaebf0ba7c0bb5931e8c4d4691761e160c0227baf6b73872d69a1/IMG_4348.jpeg" data-mid="219999680" border="0" alt="Double sided drawings. Ink and iridescent medium. 2024. " data-caption="Double sided drawings. Ink and iridescent medium. 2024. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/737de6c3ae6eaebf0ba7c0bb5931e8c4d4691761e160c0227baf6b73872d69a1/IMG_4348.jpeg" /> <img width="2880" height="1800" width_o="2880" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c8b54d9590f6d5265feb985bcf70c0ee08a31bf70e00231f6a79d4b5fd7c37c/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-8.22.03-pm.png" data-mid="229567696" border="0" alt="Postcard. Ink on paper, 2nd class stamp. Part of PUNCHCARD, the Auxillary, 2023." data-caption="Postcard. Ink on paper, 2nd class stamp. Part of PUNCHCARD, the Auxillary, 2023." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c8b54d9590f6d5265feb985bcf70c0ee08a31bf70e00231f6a79d4b5fd7c37c/Screenshot-2025-04-09-at-8.22.03-pm.png" /> https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/wishing-well Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:26:51 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/wishing-well <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ac3bdfa7c75b855614e5b3817265ffcaedfc85d2ac82b863bfbcef4245ab3676/IMG_1253.jpeg" data-mid="186274256" border="0" data-scale="60" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ac3bdfa7c75b855614e5b3817265ffcaedfc85d2ac82b863bfbcef4245ab3676/IMG_1253.jpeg" /> You can read the full story in Responses to Untitled (Eye With Comet) (c.1985) By Paul Thek. Pilot Press. ed. Richard Porter. An extract: A wishing well in a casino in Las Vegas takes the form of a fountain. Tiled in green and gold and bordered with fresh flowers, it dominates the foyer. People might throw a couple of dimes in when they pass. Some make a wish. The official line is that they donate the money to charity, but it amounts to so little that the guy who comes to clean it is told to just pocket what's there. After work, he might spend it on a McDonald's or give a dollar to each of his kids. They had been in Vegas November of last year. They talked each other into booking the tickets one hysterical night at his. Their eyes shone bright with the blue of the laptop screen as they sat on the floor in his bedroom. H had a glass of red wine pressed against his cheek, reading out his credit card number. He shrieked as he clicked confirm. They’d had an alright time. Looking back, the sheer impulsiveness of the trip was enough of a sign that they were drifting apart. It spoke of their desperation for some kind of excitement. Now he tells people that the diagnosis didn't have much to do with it at all. Vegas was the real wake-up call, Vegas reminded him just how finite time is. This isn't entirely true, but it makes him less sad than going into all the details. He hates describing coming to the realisation that he couldn't keep pushing his body that hard, and how for H, ultimately, it wasn't worth slowing down. He’s accepted it now, this need for a gentler kind of joy. He's glad though that they took the final trip. From the moment they touched down in Paradise, Nevada, everything was bright, harsh, and painfully expensive. Neither of them understood much about gambling, and it turns out it's not as fun if you don’t know how Poker works. They kind of figured out the slot machines, but even these seemed sly. With so many lights flashing, he felt sure he was winning but was so distracted by the blinking neon that he couldn’t tell. H spent a lot of time talking to other tourists in the hotel. He tried to charm neighbouring tables when they went out to eat, joking and flirting with the waiting staff, and drank lavishly while asking other patrons to explain the rules of games in a beguiling manner. While H glowed under raucous attention, he became quieter, beginning to worry every time he left to go to the bathroom or fetch a drink that he might return to the sight of his lover pressed against someone else. This idea made him feel relieved, and that concerned him. His most powerful memory from the trip is of the casino mall. He’d gone alone as H was nursing a hangover and had said something bitter about having no desire to traipse around a capitalistic Disneyland as if that wasn't the whole point of the casino. As if they hadn't been sitting at a bar last night with an honest-to-god money-themed drinks menu (He’d gone for the ‘Silver Dollar’ - a clear gin-based something which had been very nice actually, not too sweet) He’d spent the whole journey to the mall arguing the unfairness of this comment in his head. Hadn't H understood that to see “capitalistic Disneyland” was precisely why they were there? He’d imagined their presence here as a salient aside, aware of the ridiculousness of the display, but finding a peculiar honesty in this environment and its translation of money in the purest sense. He’d thought he could write an article about it. By the time he reached the mall, he was angry. He felt stupid for thinking he was seeing some bigger picture and panicked that it had slipped away. H was now somehow a step ahead of him simply by not caring in the first place. The mall remained unchanged. It appeared just as described by the tourist sites: ostentatious with marble pillars and imitation Roman statues. The shops were sunken into faux classical-style architecture with sparkling plate glass windows. The vast domed ceiling painted like a blue sky, loomed above them. It was studded with the 215 Reach Powercore luminaires and 46 ColorBlast Powercore luminaires and performed a sunrise and sunset every day, cycling through bright cyan daytimes to navy nights. You could watch all of this without ever needing to go outside. The mall was bustling. The closed-in warmth of its fake sky roof felt like a theme park. A Niki Minaj song played over the speakers in the indoor street. Walking into each shop immersed him in a different high-energy pop song, each with a certain BPM, H would have said, to make you spend more. He wondered what the BPM was in the bar last night When H had bought an 80-dollar round. If he was here now he might have said that made him laugh, but he couldn't figure out how to turn it into a joke for later without sounding sharp. The street was at its busiest at 5 pm. Everyone was preparing for the beginning of that day’s “sunset”. A hen party group were posing, ready for a reliable, mechanical golden hour. Next to them stood a pack of young men in clean trainers, each holding a shiny oversized smartphone, and behind them was an older couple busy getting out their digital cameras to record the spectacle. He overheard someone earnestly telling his partner a rumour that on Tuesdays and Thursdays the patterns were pinker, whereas the rest of the days it was redder, and on Fridays, sunset lasted an extra 15 minutes because there was more footfall. According to this, today would be a pink one. He stopped near a bench and looked up, fighting his embarrassment at being a lone sunset tourist. At 4:57 the sky was still and blue as ever. He was walking towards the central fountain, constructed out of triumphal arches and marble figures when he noticed a bird drinking the chlorinated water. It looked like a sparrow although he wasn't sure if they had them in America. As he approached, the bird took off, and he stood watching as it looped over the roofs of the shops, then came to rest on a concealed light fitting, casting a shadow onto the edge of the sky. Its wings were surprisingly large against the forced perspective of the clouds. He watched as it shook out its feathers and took off again, realising with surprise that he could hear it calling above the crowd’s warm jumble of voices as it shunted against the trompe l’oeil sky. He wondered what it ate, where it slept, and how long it might live. When it happened, he was still watching the bird. He was considering if the sunsets messed up the bird’s circadian rhythm, or whether it got dark enough for the thing to sleep, when, without a sound, the mall plunged into darkness. It happened too fast for anyone to realise what was going on. One second they were seeing, and then seeing was impossible. **** https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/Mud-2024 Thu, 27 Jul 2023 19:09:38 +0000 Jesse Howarth https://jessehowarth.cargo.site/Mud-2024 You can listen to this story, and hear a little context for it on Slacks radio:&nbsp;‘this isn’t just a song this is a story” Mud The window faces a small field trimmed by sleek grey road. It was once common ground for the workers, but now the houses are split into flats and the field is private property. She watches as men begin to clear it. The few spindly trees and patches of brush don’t take long to crush into furrowed mud but the subsequent digging takes forever. In early summer the men arrive before the heat gets fierce and within an hour they are soaked with sweat. They drive a digger up and down for a week, and the earth piles up in mounds, crumbly and grey on top and dense and brown beneath. But then weeks will go by and the men won’t arrive and the digger will wait in the mashed earth and the kids will sit in the pit and drink and smoke and shout. Sometimes when it lasts all night the neighbours call the police and their flashing lights slash through her blinds, gutting the dark flat. Autumn comes and the plot is still derelict. The wind picks up and cuts brutally cold through the glassy September sun. One night there’s a storm with lighting and the chestnut tree across the road looms and creaks and threatens to break. The weather warning passes and the days go by, and the wind alternates between mild and icy. As the leaves begin to drop, the men return to pour foundations. Alma describes the unbearable noise they made drilling into the earth with massive corkscrews. She says she could feel the sound through the soles of her feet, shaking the walls and making the glasses on the draining board clink. The ground is divided into neat trenches, stuck with metal rods and crisscrossed by walk boards. An orange cement mixer sits in the digger's spot. The men pour and shovel and then leave again and all winter the concrete base lies covered in holey white plastic that tears and whips in the wind. It's soaked, frozen, snowed on. In January a new group of workers arrive to spend a day constructing a fence around the site. She gets home in the dark to the smell of paint and it's as if half her vision is blacked out by the navy wall that gleams wetly in the streetlights. After this, the build slows back down. Sometimes there are heavy sounds from behind the fence but nothing grows above it. It exhausts her, how it crawls and groans with colossal wealth. Twice a day she commutes down diverted pavements overhung by scaffolding and adverts for luxury apartment blocks —all hazy rendered edges and blue skies. It’s hard to get her head around how much it all costs and why. Hard to believe that the rendered highrises won’t rot like teeth if their insides stand uncovered and exposed to a winter's worth of rain. The puddles on the roads are milky brown from the dust. Rubble piles up in skips. For every block finished another two collapse and begin again. And sometimes she feels excited and she runs through the city at night and the huge plastic sheets suck in and out of the empty windows of the half-built tower blocks like sails that crack and bellow in the wind, a force enough to slap her in the chest and blow through the arms of her coat. The men come back and this time it's with the steel frame and the speed it goes up with is astonishing. Then it's still again, untouched and incomplete for another full year. Meanwhile, the local news runs a story about a huge crack in the foundations of a building by the same company. Residents get evacuated and there are petitions, fundraisers and protests. The story reaches national TV. Walking home one evening she catches a glimpse of the report on a screen in the new glass-fronted gym and she wonders if things might actually be changing but it drops quickly from the news cycle. She still gets weekly emails from the housing union who are trying to take the company to court but the city sits back in apathy. Work on the streets rolls on slowly as before. Her landlord informs them he’s putting up their rent and they can’t afford to keep the lease, even though there's damp in every room and the extractor fan in the bathrooms broken again and the washing machine keeps fusing and all the taps leak and the door handles periodically pull off in their hands . Alma picks up an extra shift a week and spends evenings on her laptop refreshing rightmove. They put windows in the frames of the complex on the main road and it looms greenish on the horizon until four in the afternoon when it shines, burning orange in reflected light. Then the days get longer and she stops seeing the sunset on her way home. ****