ixxxix

I leave you with this as I take my haitus from photography…


What's in a name?


There's a lot of confusion surrounding ixxxix.  Some people poke fun at it but I take it very seriously, actually. 

One of the things that drew me to photography was the fact that I could be a faceless entity behind my work.  I could allow my imagery to speak for me.  Loudly if I wished.  Or in a whisper, if that was my preference.  Through my work, you can hear my voice.  You can hear my accent.  Its depth and timbre.  I can say something amusing or something serious.  I can send you a message. 

I could opt to shoot this under my name, but that was never my desire.  And creatively, my identity has always been ixxxix.  It is me.  It is the day I was born.  The day I came into being.  It was (quite separately) the day I began shooting erotica.  It was the day I stepped away from the confines of commercial work to shoot something that had meaning to me.  And in doing so, this work has come to define me.

At first, I gave ixxxix a definition.  Now, it defines me.



Somewhere out there, there's a creative dictionary.  When you look for my entry, you'll see


Blackwood, Kincaid:  (blăkwʊd, kĭnkād)
noun-
    1. ixxxix

synonyms:  none.


You might think it doesn't make sense.  You look me up and my definition is ixxxix?  Huh?  What does that even mean?  So you figure you'll look up ixxxix and see what that definition is:

ixxxix: (ī ĕks/ dŭb'əl ĕks/ ī ĕks)
noun-
   1. Funk Shui.
   2. that Funky Cold Medina.
   3. see also Kincaid Blackwood.

synonyms:  none


It's confusing, I know, just a bunch of Roman numerals without meaning to you.  A source for jokes, jabs & jests.  For me, however, it was my inception.  A date in time.  The birth of something real.  It represents all I know and all I am creatively.  My creative brand, if you will.  I never really wanted a name associated with it, but if you really don't feel whole without a name, just read that date and think "Kincaid Blackwood."  Or you can call me "Cade."

Though some of you might even call me "Kinc" but I digress...

ixxxix is the photographic definition of the erotica writer Kincaid Blackwood. There are no synonyms…


But just in case you can't live without a visual aid, here I am:




I wear panky rangs 'coz Sita Mae Edwards told me that's how pimps like Wayne Brady & B. Powder do it...

I can't do the top 12.  It's waaaaay too much pressure, dude.





Noice...