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Derek Jarman & Leland Wheeler's Day-Book - Today and Tomorrow (all images included below the description)

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  How this project came to be. In 1991 Leland received a hand inscribed copy of Derek Jarman' s unusual day-book, Today and Tomorrow . It's a lovely book, showcasing some of his paintings from the 'Luminous Darkness' series and it offers the numerical date of each month but not the days of the week, or any specific year. Leland showed it to me a few times, remarking he had never actually used it. Somewhere about 2009-10 he decided to make a few entries. He did not continue to use it however, and so it remained until his death in 2022. He did, however, keep some odd clippings, fragments of notes (written in his elegant handwriting in pen & ink), peculiar little cut outs intended for a collage (I think), and some photographs. Earlier this year, 2024, I unpacked the day-book and was inspired to do something with it to honor the memories of both Leland and Derek. As I looked at the cache of Leland's tucked-away items and the book itself, it came to me th...
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The Iconoclast

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 The Iconoclast Leland Wheeler Photo-shoot as the allegorical figure of the Iconoclast. Based on the emblem images of Cesare Ripa.  
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William Lance Van Hettinga

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William Lance Van Hettinga (Duke University Yearbook) William Lance Van Hettinga b. 2/8/1938 – Ann Arbor Michigan d. 9/18/1989 – Charleston, South Carolina William graduated from Duke University in 1963, with an M.A. in English Literature. His thesis, The Theme of Nonfulfillment in Three Plays of Clifford Odets" , was his parting offering to official Academia. The following year he took some courses at the Institute of Theater Arts in Vienna and returned to New York City where he immersed himself as a denizen of the prevailing “Beat Generation”, finding a niche among like-minded friends. By 1965, he had begun making avantgarde films and his first work, Motherlove , was premiered at Film-Makers’ Cinematheque in 1967. The film was a colorful spoof, labeled as “Oedipal Dracula” in theme, and featured Van Hettinga himself in the role of Dracula’s mother. This was followed by Happy Birthday Baybee Starr , a satire of an aging film starlet’s descent into...
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