Dove Nasir

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. Currently 73 — April 3 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 this 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 of whether am I good enough, man enough in a world that has hated me. Male Jewish White Gay Privileged American now toward the end of my life, the final 1/3, the finale, not so grand. I photograph myself struggling to make sense of myself, now 'A Stranger in a Strange Land.' Grokking where I’ve been, HELL. ‘Selfieing’ myself with 3 cameras — the one on my iPhone 14pro, 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 ‘mjwgpa’ cisgender human from CKA (currently known as) Earth. Documenting glimpses of his home, 3 rooms, his life in play and torment, his memoir in pictures...in an Ed McMahon intro, "Here’s Dove!"