Gene's Presents A Stranger to Myself: Joshua Abelow

Release date: February 14, 2026
Color photography by Katya Kirilloff

B&W photography by Lev Lazarus

 

This exhibition was documented on Sunday, July 13th,2025 in Taiban, New Mexico when the artist and his family took a trip there together.  The paintings were created in Santa Fe, New Mexico during the summer of 2025. A Stranger to Myself is the third track on the album, I Was a Mod Before You Was a Mod (1995), by the English post-punk band, Television Personalities.

I'm a danger to myself

And I won't deny it's true

And in the stillness of the night

I feel so troubled through and through

And I know I have to change

But it's easier said than done

And after all nobody said that life had to be fun

But if I close my mind

To the world outside

But I can't close my mind to the pain inside

But if I close my mind

I can close my eyes

To all the pain I feel

But I'm a stranger to myself

And to the ones that I hold dear

And I feel so helpless every time I fall

And I know you find it hard

Trying to get inside my head
Don't you think sometimes
It's just as bad for me
'Cause I'm a stranger to myself and I always will be
I'm a danger to myself
I'm a stranger to myself