Bio

Aging for me has been a slow, painful process. I have not been ill or had an accident. Nothing major has occurred, just the slow process of decay. April 3, 1950, is my birthday — I grapple with death, a recurring theme in my life. With one bout of major depression in my life for a year and a half when I was 22-24, the scar of that event has never left. Add to that scar growing up homosexual in a time when it was still a diagnosis, before 1973 when the APA took it out of the DSM. I have struggled with the question: am I good enough, man enough in a world that has hated me. A MJWCPA: Male Jewish White Gay Privileged American now toward the end of my life, the final one-third, the finale — not so grand.

I photograph myself struggling to make sense of me, now ‘A Stranger in a Strange Land.’ Grokking where I’ve been: HELL. ‘Selfieing’ myself with 3 cameras — the one on my iPhone 6S, my Canon point and shoot and my DSLR 70D — documenting the pains and joys of the simple home existence of my life through the use of selfie sticks, delayed shutter, tripods, backdrops, lighting and more. Here I introduce NKA Dove Nasir, an aging content and malcontent ‘MJWCPA’ cisgender human from CKA (currently known as) Earth. Documenting glimpses of his home, three rooms, his life in play and torment, his memoir in pictures…in an Ed McMahon intro, “Here’s Dove!”