Shawn Avery: Liminal Photographer

It’s my esteemed joy to welcome the photographic talents and heartful brain of Shawn Avery to our desk to discuss his liminal visioncraft. There’s a crop of bountiful insights and candid questions from a curious head who came to meet this stranger out of sheer equanimity as we tour spaces real and unreal and draw in obscure angles of many more besides. Enjoy. Back again soonest.

Shawn Avery (Averygraphic on Instagram)

Through the Sparks “Meteors in Gorges” (closing music) & We Own the Sky (Shawn’s Label and Collective)

“The lyrics were adapted from a notebook of a few abandoned ideas that “place absurdities — love and nature’s cruelty — in a world without Newtonian physics, where they make more sense,” [Shawn’s bandmate Jody] Nelson said.” [Chosen of course, on impulse for feeling, then come to find out…]

Stay close for a video edition of this episode, replete with so many linked images you’ll think you were in a cyclotron. Thanks for your patience, old and new.

Thanks to Shawn for images and the gorgeous instrumentals featured in this episode. Thanks to Mandaloregaming for the nightmares and the intro stinger-flynn.

00:00:00 – cursed opening
00:00:36 – Operator’s Welcome (feat – “Dead Ice,” “Ascending”, “Dirty Trip”)
00:17:18 – Interview
01:09:14 – Through the Sparks “Meteors in Gorges”

*Instrumental tracks by Shawn Avery from Music for the Earth Hotel