Amanda! My Substack Sister!! This letter had me grinning ear to ear. Thank you for getting excited about my Weston find (literally no one else on the internet cared but you). The videos and instructions were not bossy. If anything, I felt seen, like you knew I was in the midst of reaching for rusty kitchen scizzors to tear the back open with my sweaty palms. And instead I went to Baller Hardware (in Silver Lake) to get a clean pair of cotton gloves and fresh blades for my exacto knife as per your instructions to "carefully open the bacK". And now I know I have an original Edward Weston printed by Cole Weston and an incredible story to go along with it!! I think I'm going to keep her. This find feels truly kismet. Thank you. <3
The internet does not know what it's missing. Weston, Charis, the love, the art, your find, and our chaos together through text messages, a modern letter, writing exchange in real time on two separate coasts.
Keep her. She is a gift.
It is wild that I have a NYC photo of her, and she has lived with me in New York, New Jersey, and now Miami.
So your California image of Charis deserves you.
P.S. When you told me you had always loved this image and then found it at the flea market, that was kismet.
Amanda! My Substack Sister!! This letter had me grinning ear to ear. Thank you for getting excited about my Weston find (literally no one else on the internet cared but you). The videos and instructions were not bossy. If anything, I felt seen, like you knew I was in the midst of reaching for rusty kitchen scizzors to tear the back open with my sweaty palms. And instead I went to Baller Hardware (in Silver Lake) to get a clean pair of cotton gloves and fresh blades for my exacto knife as per your instructions to "carefully open the bacK". And now I know I have an original Edward Weston printed by Cole Weston and an incredible story to go along with it!! I think I'm going to keep her. This find feels truly kismet. Thank you. <3
Tess, SS
OMG, the story gets even better.
I love it.
The internet does not know what it's missing. Weston, Charis, the love, the art, your find, and our chaos together through text messages, a modern letter, writing exchange in real time on two separate coasts.
Keep her. She is a gift.
It is wild that I have a NYC photo of her, and she has lived with me in New York, New Jersey, and now Miami.
So your California image of Charis deserves you.
P.S. When you told me you had always loved this image and then found it at the flea market, that was kismet.
It was meant to be kept.