Words by Justin Howard @jthnomad
Photography by Paul Kaiser @paulkaiserart
Models John Strand @johnstrand Keslie Smeby @kelsiesmeby
Make Up by Erik Torpe @eriktorppe
“I do know the difference between right and wrong, but I just like the way wrong feels. It’s an impulse, an urge more intense than anything else.” – Unknown
As a believer in romance, and the enduring power of Love – that
connection between two human hearts – I can’t help but observe in the
“Insta Age” that romance seems to have taken on a dark quality. What I
mean is that while romance celebrates the euphoria and sublimity,
it now seems tinged with feelings of intense fascination with melancholia,
mixed with the irrational. I mean, who amongst us hasn’t found themselves
at 2 a.m. obsessing over your cell phone screen about a crush whose
only communication for the last three days reads “Hi.” If you are
lucky they might have added an emoji to it. Yes, the mixture of one’s
romantic life and a cellphone seems to inevitably turn it into a toxic
incubator of second-guessing and self-loathing.
We here at Black Chalk wanted to explore what Love really looks like in
the “Insta Age” so we partnered up with fine art photographer Paul Kaiser
to do just that. By working through the mixed mediums of polaroids and
digital photography, we aimed to captured that feeling we all experience at the
beginning of a crush. That overwhelming sense of lust that makes you weak in
the knees. As we all know, beneath the lust is a pure desire to really
bare your soul to the other person and for them to truly see you as you are without
any filters. We tried to honestly examine all these elements and to present a
narrative that would do justice to Love in this “Insta Age.”
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