EMBELLISH IN JULY
I'll be showing new work at Embellish, 223 S. First in Mount Vernon during the month of July. Please stop in to take a look. And I'll be there at…
LET’S CELEBRATE!
“It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” ~Kojiro Tomita The gallery, of course, is the space that enables…
LOOKING BACK
It’s Throwback Thursday! The photograph above is a very early zone plate image. This week, in the process of updating my website’s ABOUT page, I recalled my beginnings with black…
WHO WILL SPEAK FOR THE TREES?
If we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. ~ Edward Burtynsky The Project My fascination with trees has followed me from childhood. Surrounded by woods, my daily life centered on exploring…
IT’S A POLITICAL AGE
Though I consciously have avoided the political in my photographs (and my poems), more and more I am drawn to projects that involve moral issues. Confronted daily with images that…
GONE INTERNATIONAL!
I’m so excited to be in this exhibit, “Art Across the Water,” showing at Tulista Gallery in Sidney, B.C. It’s my first international exhibition, and I can hardly wait to…
REFLECTION
Reflection; the act of, not the image of, is a way of reconsidering where we are in relation to reality. ~ Joel Meyerowitz
SEEING BEAUTY
I see beauty where some see only ugliness. These places that offer little in terms of what we usually think of as beauty—industrial landscapes, junkyards, sites of detritus and decay—I…
THE MOMENT
No matter how many times I stroll through the alleys in Mount Vernon, the lyric of these narrow liminal spaces always trips my senses. I love the old brick…
FRESH STARTS
Xīnnián hǎo! Monday, February 8 was the start of the 2016 Chinese New Year. It is the year of the Fire Monkey. I read somewhere that the Year of the Fire Monkey…
