It Wasn't Me, I Swear.

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I was sitting alone in my wagon-lit compartment when a more than usually violent jolt of the train swung back the door of the adjoining washing-cabinet, and an elderly gentleman in a dressing-gown and a traveling cap came in. I assumed that in leaving the washing-cabinet, which lay between the two compartments, he had taken the wrong direction and come into my compartment by mistake. Jumping up with the intention of putting him right, I at once realized to my dismay that the intruder was nothing but my own reflection in the looking-glass on the open door. I can still recollect that I thoroughly disliked his appearance. Instead, therefore, of being frightened by...[my] 'double'...I simply failed to recognize...[it] as such. Is it not possible, though, that [my] dislike of [it] was a vestigial trace of the archaic reaction which feels the 'double' to be something uncanny? (U 248).

2011-07-16T09:37:00.000-07:00

she used to "cover her eyes with her hands - not even the world of images could get through, since all of her anxiety was projected onto them, transforming them into terrifying symbols" (S 151).

2011-07-15T09:25:00.000-07:00

This phrase seriously won't get out of my brain.

2011-07-14T19:06:00.000-07:00

So I'm working on a book project about haunted spaces in and around Los Angeles. I’m not necessarily looking for somewhere haunted by the undead; rather, I’m interested in spaces that, when you pass by, go inside of, or even think of, remind you of a specific event/memory/person/etc. This project is about documenting lingering personal hauntings within Los Angeles that affect its residents. All material will be attained via personal experience and the stories of friends, relatives and strangers.

If you'd like to participate, please send the address (or details regarding how to get there) and a little note about your experience with this space to hauntedspacesla@gmail.com. Any help at all is truly appreciated, and you will be contacted by me personally if your space is used in the project.

Examples of the type of thing I'm looking for:

- a school across the street from an old lover's house who loved waking up to the sound of children playing

- the empty panels on the side of the la river that used to be covered with a memorial for someone who died on the 5 there

This is a super basic cover idea I've been working with (though it may just be plain text, no images, and will definitely be in more of a "zine" than "book" format, but this seems a weird application of the word zine):

& here are a few example images, which for not are just off of Google Maps Street View and are a possible indication of what I'd like to do with them:

hauntedspacesla.blogspot.org will go up once I start taking and playing with imagery and text, layouts, etc. My hope is that this project will be ongoing and possibly result in more work than just this book - larger photos, an interactive map of some sort - and that all media will be easily and cheaply disseminated.

Also, if you'd like more about my work, please visit www.artemisaclark.com.

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2011-03-13T23:31:00.001-07:00

In an attempt to fully work out this obsession with following others, I am turning myself into the subject by live blogging my location for the next week. The updates will occur on this post with timestamps.

March 14, 2011
10:32 AM - Starbucks, Glendale at Fletcher, Los Angeles
10:58 AM - 7-11, Normandie at 3rd, Los Angeles
11:15 AM - Home, Serrano at 5th, Los Angeles
3:58 PM - Garrett Markenson Coiffure, Summerhill Lane at McBean Parkway, Valencia‎
6:32 PM - Sarah's, Valle del Oro at Newhall, Newhall
10:04 PM - Home, Serrano at 5th, Los Angeles

March 15, 2011
11:53 AM - The Getty, Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles
2:30 PM - Home, Serrano at 5th, Los Angeles
7:03 PM - Fred 62's, Vermont at Russell, Los Angeles
8:52 PM - Home, Serrano at 5th, Los Angeles

March 16, 2011
10:02 AM - Starbucks, Glendale at Fletcher, Los Angeles
10:21 AM - Ruha's, Cove at Silver Lake, Los Angeles
4:48 PM - Ikea, San Fernando at Grinell, Burbank
6:54 PM - Home, Serrano at 5th, Los Angeles
8:02 PM - Mexico City, Hillhurst at Avocado, Los Angeles
9:34 PM - Home, Serrano at 5th, Los Angeles

March 17, 2011
10:01 AM - TENOVERSIX, Melrose at Croft, Los Angeles
6:24 PM - Terminal 3, LAX, Los Angeles
6:50 PM - Gladstone's, Terminal 3, LAX, Los Angeles
8:03 PM - Gate 35, Terminal 3, LAX, Los Angeles
9:48 PM - SFO, San Francisco

...Well, that only partially worked.

2011-02-08T08:25:00.000-08:00

2010-10-25T21:52:00.001-07:00

Innermost fears, confessions, worries, etc, printed in bold, caps Arial with random(ish) words missing. Traced onto paper. Paper & ink. This may be part of a series. Not so sure yet.

& detail:

2010-10-21T02:44:00.000-07:00

2010-10-18T12:49:00.001-07:00

Stills from a performance I did for my 25th birthday in which I attempted to bleach out the pages of the notebook I had used over the past year. The pages had been torn out and were on a table for people to read before they were erased. Unfortunately, it only sort of worked and I need to do some further tests.

2010-08-28T03:52:00.000-07:00

Scala Santa, Rome, Italy
Santuario de San Lázaro, El Rincón, Cuba
Potala Temple, Lhasa, Tibet
Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, Tibet
Hussein Mosque, Karbala, Iraq
Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe, Mexico DF, Mexico
The Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Fatima, Portugal
El Cristo Negro, Portobelo, Panama
El Santuario del Señor de Chalma, Chalma, Mexico

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The body is at its most interesting when it is falling.

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All of the killings/torture, except for Hudspeth, took place at 703 E Colorado Street in Glendale. All victims were found naked, thoroughly cleaned, having been raped and strangled to death with a ligature.

Yolanda Washington, 19, prostitute
- discovered around what is now 6510 Forest Lawn Drive on October 18, 1977
- went missing October 16
- viciously raped, corpse cleaned, ligature marks visible around neck, wrists, ankles

Judith Lynn Miller, 16, prostitute
- discovered at 2844 Alta Terrace (La Crescenta) on November 1, 1977
- raped, strangled, etc. like Washington
- laid out on La Crescenta resident's flower bed. Body was covered with tarp as to hide it from children going to school in the morning. Miller had been posed with her legs forming a diamond.
- Buono + Bianchi recorded the audio from the torture of Miller for eventual sale on the black market

Lissa Teresa Kastin, 21, dance student (ballet)
- discovered in ravine 30 ft south of the 3000 block of E. Chevy Chase Drive (3067 E. Chevy Chase Drive? Googlemaps shows this address as being in the Chevy Chase Country Club. A lot of these "exact" addresses are different; of course, the Los Angeles landscape has changed a bit in 32 years.) on November 6, 1977
- ligature used to strangle her still around her neck
- first body not "dropped" at an obvious, accessible site

Dolores Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson, 14, students
- discovered by two boys (who thought the bodies were mannequins) in a trash heap at Stadium Way & Landa Street on November 20, 1977
- believed to have been dumped from the 5 fwy overpass
- abducted November 13, 1977 from Eagle Rock Plaza on their way home from school (seen approaching a car after getting off a bus)

Kristina Weckler, 20, Art Center student
- discovered on 4100 block of N Ranons Way in Eagle Rock on November 20, 1977
- body fairly fresh; found with oozing injection marks - first sign that the hillside stranglers were torturing their victims in addition to strangling them, tying them up, and raping them
- Buono + Bianchi attempted to kill her via suffocation by reworking natural gas pipes for her to breathe in. This was ineffective, so they strangled her to death after enduring likely prolonged attempted asphyxiation.

Jane King, 28, actress
- discovered a few feet from the westbound Los Feliz 5-South offramp on November 23, 1977
- King went missing November 9, so her body was badly decomposed when found.

Lauren Wagner, 18, student
- discovered at 1217 Cliff Drive on November 29, 1977
- Buono + Bianchi attempted to kill her via electrocution by duct taping raw electical wires to her palms. You cannot electrocute someone like that, so they just continually burnt the same area of her hands. She was eventually strangled and found with burn marks, later explained by Bianchi's testimony.

Kimberly Martin, 17, prostitute
- discovered around what is now 2006 N Alvarado Street, "15 ft down the slope of a freshly tilled hillside adjacent to a house," on December 13, 1977

Cindy Hudspeth, 20, clerk (raising money for college)
- orange datsun discovered at around the 4.3 mile point of Angeles Crest Highway by helicopter on February 16, 1978
- Hudspeth had been stuffed in her trunk, then the car was rolled into Angeles National Forest