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Thursday, June 24, 2010

All Rights Reserved*


All Rights Reserved*
Originally uploaded by no3rdw.

Monday, May 10, 2010

metal book with hebrew...


metal book with hebrew
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Lipstick pipe dreams with strings attached.

Friday, April 16, 2010

ecstatic motion bliss


ecstatic motion bliss
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Thursday, April 08, 2010

The Westerfeld House


The Westerfeld House
Originally uploaded by Kevissimo.

future sight of one of my upcoming shoots! This house has a very interesting history! OMG

Tuesday, March 09, 2010

newness in video


newness in video
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin
inspired by everything....(Thanks for the music David Naugle, it caused an imagery collision) go to the following for the full version http://www.facebook.com/video/editvideo.php?v=351827299489#!/video/video.php?v=351827299489

Monday, March 08, 2010



Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

someone new...very true and happy in front of my camera, patient..too.
Word up to Mary Van Note

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Souls on Sleeves



Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Images for the interview with the gibbous fashion house.....created for the first issue of SwankSpeak!
Our new zine from the voice of the House of Swankety Swank!
Subscriptions of 6 issues for $25 per year are available from swankspeak@gmail.com

Friday, January 01, 2010



Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Helpful hands find home?


Helpful hands find home?
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Everything is OK


Everything is OK
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Monday, November 02, 2009

for you


poetic animation
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin

Friday, October 23, 2009

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Met & affected


Met & affected
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

I went to the Met in NY..things stick with me.

Penn is ART


Penn is ART
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

A lonely night walk down Broadway in New York...became kind with the gift of seeing this portrait of Nadja Auerman, by the late Irving Penn, staring at "me" ....sweet!! Thank you Mr. Penn...you will always be inspiring to me.

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

init


init
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Come see my show...its up till the 28th of October.
The closing costume vortex portrait mania starts at 5pm
until 9pm...the last Wednesday in October..
SEE YOU THERE.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

layers of life, touched


layers of life, touched
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.


My muted answers
My hopeful heart
Spills over with tears
Hollow and creative
Makes death seem ok
Quiet darkness simple with no smells

Shivering empty
Love blows in and out
Of the trees like wind
Words and wine
Never enough time
Ocean changing the sand
Drinking my love
Killing the dove
Flying failed dead beach
Spilled glasses broken bottles
Airline tickets
Leftover crickets
Chitter chatter
Dreams deferred
Reality- A tower

Eyes are blurry
Cold and flurry
Cuddle's end
Cuddle's end

Tears like a flood
Up and over
Red rover

Losing friends
Keeping secrets
A part of what purpose
To heal
To keep safe
Save face

I am so humbled
Yet clearly, I am
A woman moves

Indebited to me
She has said
I gladly gave my heart
To he who was dead.
He gave me groceries.
He confirmed the dread.
I found someone who found me
With love we sped.


My love is with them.
In awe with their own creation
Thousands of miles away
I remember that this is just life before death
Between tears I will fold and sew
Remembering my own breath

This mOrning I wake reminded
Finally out of coffee and that all
the calm ends.

The truth that bends
And always his smile
Confirming my ends.

Friday, August 14, 2009

a moment on the road


a moment on the road
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

tears stunned
for a moment
power eludes
me on the other side
at the curve in the road
reflecting on my focus
of each tear that has landed

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Solo in The Wooltex Gallery


Solo in The Wooltex Gallery
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.


I took this before my meeting about my upcoming exhibit, October 2-30, at the Wooltex Gallery at the Tower Press building in Cleveland, Ohio
Ironically and oh so timely, I created my Vortex on the same floor.....more to come on this...

Sunday, May 24, 2009

transmission


transmission
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Monday, April 27, 2009

St Remy Lavande


St Remy Lavande
Originally uploaded by laurencemartini.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009


Eartha_G_Mask
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin

Tuesday, November 04, 2008

A woman moves

dos
The woman moves...
Her petals transition
with a haunting beauty.
She enters into motherhood
with a gasp of wonder.
PS
Her days pass
with a harmonious
passion and acceptance
of what is light and dark.
C
She is conscious of her whereabouts,
the weather, and this something
of which she feels
is about to become
known. She waits
and hopes for truth.
A
Miracles occur all
around her. Pure beauty
of the truth
through her child grants
her peace. She rests
in the arms of love.
She slips off into a dream.
Her talent multiplies and her
vision becomes clear.
envirovixen
Death and Recognition.
Environmental Awareness
A connected balance
of three shifts
to a path for one.
She goes on...
with faith.
thoughts of the forests
Transitions
and knowledge have
brought you here.
pestilence
You have been stripped
of your identity
of your place.
But with skills...
you will love what it is
that you do.
transitionary and posed
Finger printed by fate..
the wondering soul
struggles with having
a sense of place.
What was once so ingrained
has dissolved into a
view of a thousand little
tiny houses, set on a hill
in the distance.
fingerprinted
Certainly, I will
find myself here, she thinks.
A place of warmth and love-
a groove.
feeling in San Francisco
The thousand little tiny houses
looked back at the woman
staring in the mournful bliss.
They reflected her soul
and everything went quiet.
notclev
She reflected inward
to find darkness.
A light of soft round
diffusion appeared
only to reveal itself
independent of pain-
But energized by
personal truth.
She found shelter
and planted some seeds.
tres
Now there is a new woman.
Her shape once again evolving
into a most magnificent
complexity. Her form
is different-more advanced.
She has moved again.
The gesture of discernment
awakens and the woman moves once more.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Espace at 10.5 by Nate


Espace at 10.5 by Nate
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Monday, August 25, 2008

10.5



Originally uploaded by Nate Lucchese.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

intrid


intrid
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

beautiful..

Friday, February 01, 2008

Thursday, January 10, 2008

the great big LOVE YOUR BODY show!

Love your Fat front
see http://www.swanketyswank.com for readable details

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Photo intensive in Portland

read the description.
An image of Samae created by her student, Shawna, who used the 4x5 camera to capture this portrait during the photo intensive at New Space Photo Center in Portland.
This past week I traveled to Portland to be a guest instructor to a group of selected students from a local public high school. The students made portraits of one another using a 4x5 camera in a studio setting...at New Space Photo Center.
Each day, after an intense 4 hour studio session at Newspace, we toured exhibits at The Pacific Northwest College of Art and Design, the Contemporary Crafts Museum, and the Portland Museum of Art.
The students created many 16x20 inch fiber based prints in the darkroom at Newspace Photo Center **did I mention how cool Newspace is...and that they are Not for profit--and they know what is up in photo..they rent! Ask for Chris! www.newspace.org
Here is a little video of some time I had free to shoot video...not much..but you get a hint of what it what was like...I HAD A BLAST!

(i think i get to go back in the Spring for another intensive!)

Sunday, November 25, 2007

there's peace here


there's peace here
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

RE-visiting the Environmental Awareness series...This piece is now hanging in my "room"...and is also framed and for Sale in Swankety Swank-a boutique of art, furniture, and gifts in San Francisco.
Visit www.swanketyswank.com to get all the details.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Burnin' the Midnight Oil


Burnin' the Midnight Oil
Originally uploaded by dj_metronome.

computing on the west coast

Friday, July 06, 2007

Tremont neighbors


Tremont neighbors
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Mittal Steel puffs upwind to the neighbors of Tremont in Cleveland, Ohio

polluted flow


polluted flow
Originally uploaded by Eartha Goodwin.

Mittal Steel in Cleveland, Ohio

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

the unbearable lightness of being

new light

intricate growth

growth

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

My first time: The Scene Magazine Cover

The time is 10:50 pm, Tuesday, I can feel Wednesday coming close. This Wednesday is special for me, as it will be my first time.

One of my pictures will be printed on the cover of the Cleveland Scene Magazine (and over 8 more inside). I can hear the presses doing the chitter chatter of newsprint slapping down into stacks of this weeks issue. I will be out and about doing a photo series of where "my cover" will show up...and I was wondering if ya'll could keep your cameras with you and eyes open for interesting use of ohio's largest alternative weekly magazine...ooou.

I came up with the concept for the cover based on visions of my image crumpled up in the trash with coffee on it, blowing down the street in downtown Cleveland, being used as cover by a homeless person or a guy in a suit. My photo...is about to be altered and translated and re-interpreted by thousands of people in one way or another....and I think that is pretty awesome.

I was blessed to come into contact with exactly who was needed to pull this idea off.
TanyaSadieDaveLeah
Tanya, Sadie, Dave, and Leah were an incredible team of individuals who represented...our theme..in a most positive way.

Ivan Williams just touched the hair with his hands. Pat Murphy held the reflector, and brought refreshments. Terri at Turnstyle Boutique in Lakewood turned out some clothes, as well as Tanya from her Vintage Dollz Cleveland collection, and Krisztina Lazar delivered us into the eighties with the leg warmers.
I got to express my makeup artist self...and shoot my vision...

floatation and vortex reflection.

Thanks to everyone for helping us making this a super fun experience.
I am a happy Eartha.
duende


Peace.