Nail Pro

Even when your Jetblue flight is delayed at JFK while you're wrapping up your daughter's College Tour which is nothing short of determining the future of her entire life -- there are always fashion moments that are very important to document and you hope will have some meaning or merit two months or two years later. again, that pesky balance between the substantive and the superficial. and where to Draw the Line.
i just know when i have to shoot something. and thank god, these days, it's just a camera. yet, it also feels absurd but somehow blogworthy that i'm spending the better part of this morning trying to Nail down an illustration gig with Nail Pro Magazine who polished up at the Maggie Awards friday night. i never knew they existed. never even saw the mag at the beauty salon. me--an artist who paints and photographs nails on a regular basis, just a few miles from the San Fernando Valley publishing firm called Creative Age Publications that publishes Nail Pro and DaySpa.
so here's my shot of the lovely elderly Holocaust Survivor with acrylic nails and fake cheeta handbag.
and here i am, WLA Jewish artist who paints fashion figures with painted nails looking for work from Nail Pro magazine.
there is a war in Iraq. there was a mass murder at a college two weeks ago (just after shopping for colleges for my daughter) and my current photographic subject survived a genocide and for some weird reason i snapped a photo of this 3 weeks ago.
i guess because, any way you buff it, we're all blessed survivors and some of us are Nail Pros.