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Lilliam Rivera: Writer at AROHO
Lilliam Rivera grew up in the Bronx, New York. An entertainment journalist, she’s worked for E! Online, Angeleno, Latina, and was the editorial director for the lifestyle site Mondette.com. She’s a PEN Center USA 2013 Emerging Voices Fellow and is currently writing her first contemporary young adult novel, My Shelf Life, a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles and can be found online at http://www.lilliamrivera.com.
In August of 2013, I was an Artist in Residence at AROHO (www.aroomofherownfoundation.org), a women writer’s retreat. There I documented the talented writers as they read their work aloud.
One Million Rising with Eve Ensler!
68 Years Since The Hiroshima Bombing: August 6, 1945
In 2010 I created Art After The Bomb, to document Leonard Meiselman’s Atomic Bomb series. In 2004 he went to Hiroshima and at the Peace Museum where he saw a child’s shirt, tattered and destroyed, that had been found after the Hiroshima bombing. He was also struck by the image on a child’s student Identification Card. Inspired by these objects, Leonard created a series of paintings to be used to benefit peace movements, he says:
“There are thousands of people all over the world working for peace and working for non proliferation and if some day I can exhibit my works, all of them together, to benefit non-proliferation treaty groups and peace groups I will die happy.”
Tiny Window – A Portrait of Lucile’s Creole Cafe
I went to breakfast with my sister at Lucile’s in Boulder Colorado, when I turned around I became fascinated by this tiny window which frames the hand movements so well. Enjoy!
-Rebecca
Movie on a Fence
I suppose it has been way too long since I hosted The Movie on a Fence, movie nights in my backyard. I am now living in the heart of the East Village with no room to project a film anywhere. Though I will say there are plenty of films screening here in NYC so I don’t feel the need to project like I used to. Occasionally I will be screening my own work for review and discussion. If you are interested in being part of a viewing please contact me with the subject head of “Put me on your Screening list.”
RebeccaScheckman@gmail.com
My Pop-pop (Grandfather)
This photo of a pup tent was taken by my Pop-pop while he was in WWII. What I love about this photo in particular is the lighting. His photo makes me wonder what he was thinking when he raised the camera.
Watching many contemporary documentaries it seems the biggest trend with archival footage is the ability to linger on an image, come back to it multiple times in new juxtapositions and to explore the multiple meanings the image communicates. This image makes me think of Pop-pops story but it also makes me want to know what was important to him. I have a few dozen of his images from WWII and all of them not only document the time, and the world during WWII, but they reveal my grandfather’s idea of the world, and shows what was important to him. I want to know why his tent was important? Was this his home often, or was it the beauty of the light that day that motivated this document to be made in the first place?
Rebecca Scheckman 