That persistent dread
The End The flame that lured me through the pain Of frantic pleasure has flickered and gone out. My rigid fingers scream with gout, And […]
A clean well-lighted place
That elusive wonder
“Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent […]
Surveillance
I didn’t even see the guy in the far left corner watching me until I looked at the photo later on my computer. I […]
Machines of Loving Grace
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace by Richard Brautigan I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where […]
Against the Sky
I made a bunch of photos last year that I grouped together and called Skyward which was me having fun with playing around with the […]
Balancing chaos
“It’s very spiritual because you’re suddenly seeing the coherence and the interconnectedness of everything — left to right, top to bottom, front to back. It’s […]
“Skyward” (black and white photos)
Here is a gallery (embedded below) of black and white architectural abstractions from a series called Skyward. Click on the first thumbnail and using your […]
“You Are Here” (black and white photos)
Hello! Check out a new gallery of photos, You Are Here, embedded below. Black and white photographs capturing people within the concrete and metal urban […]
Mirrors and Windows
Recently I’ve been thinking about John Szarkowski‘s idea of photographs as either windows or mirrors. It’s interesting to think of one’s own work and the […]
Feedback loop
“Technique must be solid, positive, but elastic, must not fall into formula, must adapt itself to the idea. And for each new idea there […]
A photographer solves a picture
“When three-dimensional space is projected monocularly on to a plane, relationships are created that did not exist before the picture was taken. Things in the […]
To find their way to art, which is their consolation
“Paradoxically, photographers must also face the threat that their vision may one day be denied them. Their capacity to find their way to art, which […]
No thing is beautiful
“The real study of an art student is more of a development of that sensitive nature and appreciative imagination with which he was so fully […]
They made their language. You make yours.
Quotes from The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri: “The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to […]
Stones to step on or stones to avoid
“Every student should put down in some form or other his findings. All any man can hope to do is to add his fragment to […]