Now Rita. I received an email last night saying it looks like Jonno is going to have to evacuate again, from the house he’s been crashing at, still unable to go home after almost a month (read the tearful story of his cat Lola here). Next week on Fleshbot should have a guest editor to give us relief, though I did play hooky yesterday, as you might be able to tell.
So I’m getting posts together on Fleshbot right now, but just received an email from Siege’s girlfriend expressing thanks and an update. His mom lost pretty much everything; and he’s blogging his journey and experiences. Take a minute to check out his Operation Eden blog, but most of all please do visit to see his heart-stopping portraits of the survivors. You won’t see this in the New York Times, in Time, or anywhere else — no media outlet has the courage to do what Siege is doing, though I can see that as an artist, and because of those extra-soft spots us creative people have that give us paralyzing empathy, this is the way he’s surviving it. By recording it. Like with his portrait of the woman on the right: Orealia Marshall, 45. Her face is so beautiful. “Orealia and her two children and a cousin survived by clinging to the branches of a tree. The cousin died the day after the disaster struck, and Orealia and her two children waited three days for officials to take the body.”
