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Some Mornings

Australian photographer/video artist Darren Sylvester sent me an e-mail out of the blue last May, asking to see my pictures of The Carpenters’ back yard. I’d had the fortuitous privilege of visiting Karen and Richard’s former Downey, CA abode a year earlier, when I’d lucked upon an estate sale held by the current owners of the property. From the street, it looks like any other nondescript stucco ranch style home, but the decaying backyard garden serves as a sad reminder that the property was once a suburban sanctuary for the duo that personified a more conservative, domesticated rock n’ roll, running their lives completely counter to the status quo of debaucherous rebellion (at least, on the surface level). What should be a veritable pop culture landmark has fallen into complete disrepair in the 15 years since Karen’s untimely death.

Sylvester’s interest in the pictures I shot that day stemmed from a video project he was working on, about “time and decay in music.” He ended up creating a scale simulation of the Carpenters’ backyard at its zenith, perhaps recapturing the serene splendor that is now all but gone from its real-life counterpart. “It looked amazing, albeit strange,” he told me in a recent e-mail. “It was around 60 square metres in size, and we put it together in a day, filmed the next day, took it down the next.” The video, entitled I Was The Last in the Carpenters Garden, will be premiering on November 15th at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia.