An Annotated Index to the Photographic Work
of Diana Kingsley
by Tan Lin
with anecdotes and emendations by
M. Moore and E. Dickinson
affair (Lake Temagami), see Ontario 3
Alfred Bullard Antiques 3 , 15
American genealogies
and affairs 15
“Anecdote of the Jar” (Wallace Stevens),
see also “Bantams in Pine-Woods” 4
arrangements (of),
affections (mushrooms vs. napkins) 14
floaters and tokens 7
gouda 13
melons 8
purple aster (Symphyotrichum patens) 2
“the coins in her hand” 1
travel (itineraries), see also Egypt 3
artist residency programs, see also Hambidge 6
aspects
of kindness (doyenne) 15
love (apples) 5
rubato
at a certain distance from the fire 7
Aunt Sally
balloons
bursting 8
dialectical nature of 8
flimflam 7
interest in melons 8
reclusive exactness 14
vs. optical illusions, i.e., unlikelihood of transcendence 10
borrowing
in relation to the arbitrary 6
as imposition of order on nature 9
as austerity, and its insistence 5
doubling (hendiadys) 5, 12
fodder (lineage) 3
bowls
anecdote depletes narrative 4
Crate and Barrel 8
olive bearing
silver
breast cancer
cartoons in Punch (20th century)
Chanel Inimitable Multidimensional #10
cheese, relative forms of
18-month black wax gouda
Capricho de cabra with herbs goat milk
Carmody (6 weeks)
Gruyere surchoix
Gabietou sheep and cow's milk
Mahon raw milk (60 days or more)
Chestnut Hill Academy
children
Oriental (Pinyin) 6
embroidered nature of 14
those who read Time Magazine 7
Cigna Insurance Company 5
Civility
Cartographer's Cabinet-American-1860-80 3
(China ) “crackle” glaze 6
color
artificiality of passim
and British law
connections to picnics
recreational desuetude 12
and fading
good luck (links to sunset clauses)
penises (not pretty) 9
and statutes of limitation
as causes of suspicion 6
commerce (regulations)
common law clusters
“contempt for sham”
conversations among relatives
polychromy in
“corrosive smoulder” of the bee
(Jennifer Logan Kingsley, December 1, 1926-March 6, 1970)
Cuckfield (Sussex)
death of mother (age 6)
definite article “the”
in place of a personal pronoun
“discounting disappointment by anticipating it”
doublets
eyes 6
Red Haven (peach) 14
duck bottom (luscious fluxus) 4
earliness of colors
picrocarmine
Eastern purple cone flower (Echinacea purpurea) 12
and high school sweethearts
eau de Nil
embalmed moonlight 6
epigrams on the death of feelings, see flat file
Femmes, violent (1984)
flat file (antique), see friendship
food coloring families 6
free-floating idea of a thing
friendship
and cats 6
and mortality 3
and high school
copulation 7
8:37 pm, ramp butter over radishes
ferns 14
as species of explanation 5
Garden of Sorrows
where a greater Teacher was found 14
Glass plate
(Chorus of Propolis) (intoxication) 1, 2
Goldsworthy, Andy (American photographer)
and corporate art photography 14
gouda
Guttiferae 12
précis of corpses 13
love of, passim
relation to rock music
relation to still born moonlight (“the digital”) 1
heirlooms
as allowances/caricatures for regret 3
hydrangea (hortensia)
and cancelled plane flights
and leftover “lobster dinners”
and suburbia
and stepmother
in front of the Office de Tourisme Building in Chartres, France
index (Japan double),
blue liner notes
interrupted accounting 1
Japanese beetle
as philosophical footnote
Japanese cosmoses (with bee) 2
“kangaroo paw” anigozanthos 10
and reservoirs of kindness
and lateness of sensation
large pink backgrounds 8
lateness of color
gamboge
law firms
leisure
childhood 2
implications for picnics 14
pink slips (Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobsen LLP)
punishment for nostalgia 4
“living off someone else's capital”
love story
as furniture
as hippie make up
in twenty-seven volumes
in the tabloids
(a “Japanesely fantastic reverence for a tree”)
along Meadow Scabish (obs.) Symphyotrichum puniceum
melons
something in the afterlife 1
gloat
Miss Prissy (Priscilla)
modern rock balancing
Japan 10
links to contemporary photography 13
Monk, Theolonius “(Just One Way to Say) I Love You” 12
morphologies of sadness 2
music of the undertaker (Photoshop) 9
Nars Orgasm Blush, see foundation 14
vs. Le Metier de Beaute Echo 13
National Trust (U.K.)
Oh! Canada
New Brunswick Southern Railway (formerly European and
North American Railway 7
Toonies 7
transportation 4
Rothesay 5
paintings of houses with people who left them 5
Parker, Brenda Campbell “Moo,” (June 23, 1895-1981)
people
absence of passim
brevity of 12
substitute for photography 13
relation to mold 13
general unprettiness of 9
perfume
insufficient theatricality of 2
of doorways 12
of olives 3
of still lifes 8
and yachting 3
Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art
(University of the Arts) 14
placement
of dining room windows 8
of a poem with pauses 7
Green & Blacks free trade chocolate 10
polished grapes (Concord) 3
propeller fins 2
proximity to Sobeys Grocery Store 7, 13
Psilocybe atlantis 9
railway travel (different months)
Rhomborrhina mellyi 7
rooms
co-axial and asymmetric
architecture is toffee shaped
empty
vacuumed
with honeymoons in them
with furniture in them
resembling cheeses
sex in them
things repeating in them
sad sack eyebrows, see vases
School for Visual Arts (SVA), New York
shininess (fact-checked) 3
Slade School of Art
SMS
relation to postal service 7
Soft Skin, The (Truffaut) 5
Soutar, Merelle
The Driftwood Flower Arrangement Book 10
stock photo melancholy
stories
Egyptian, (circa 1920)
grandmother (“Nandy” Dorothy Lee Brown, 1895-1980)
the near-East Moroccan wax, and later
and probably, Egypt
and followed by, a trip (something else: it consists of two parts)
and “Ah there”
and You mark the spot with singing
You put some sugar in it
And then she put some olives into it
and Revere, circa 1978.
and To be left standing in Connecticut.
It gave out the CDHG (Chestnut Hill Development Group)
Flower Show Trophy, 1974. It was a Standing Child
summers in Canada
tape and whimsy
tasting notes circa 2010
“woozy blossom with hints of marriage”
theatricality
resemblance to jokes 15
and stupidity 8
Rhomborrhina resplendens
things that are Japanese 15
tiny treble of pink 8
tomato (skin),
and liquids
as affair gone wrong
as cinematic (minus gasses)
as sensuality (The Soft Skin)
on Diana's birthday
vases of intoxication, see Lorazepam (“Japanese whimsy is literary”)
Weltschmerz
onomatopoeia for “stack and squish” 13
links to Shiva
“we think of the rule in yachting”
what else would you take a picture of?
what is a fun fact?
what is the nature of grief in the human animal?
Whole Foods Ikebana 13
William and Mary “Joint” stool (1689-1725)
Wyndmoor Elementary School (Pennsylvania) 3
Zuccardi Tempranillo Mendoza (drunk May 14, 2012)
List of Works:
1. Allowance
2. Lousy Lovers
3 . Infidel
4. Anecdote of the Duck
5. The Soft Skin
6. Sneaking Suspicion
7. Summer Friends
8. Afterlife
9. Small Brown
10. Bohemian
11.
12. Community Plot
13. Weltschmerz
14. Principles & Partners
15. Auspicious One