Category: Reflections
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Digitalism: An Art Manifesto
How hard could this be? Over several weeks in 2017 I spent pockets of time assembling photos that reflected my artistic vision for a juried exhibition. With over 20 years of photographs in my archive, I needed to explore what, if anything, connects my photos beyond composition, theme, time or person. What vocabulary could I…
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Farmer’s Market in July
Dirty leaves in bunches for sale. Mismatched buckets of wildflowers, earth under fingernails and open hands inviting one to taste. People and children alive and shopping free of metal cages and broken wheels, free of screaming and grabbing at boxes of sugar adorned with pictures of fictional beings so many fictional beings line the polytheistic…
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Mind the Gap
This is about open space, finding pieces and filling holes. It is about a circle on white paper, brushed in the Zen style by an Asian man in robes kneeling on a pagoda with the sound of water nearby. This is about the moment when space assumes definition, is or is not, by the addition…
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The Man of Steel
Three weeks into growing a beard, I watched Man of Steel last night while folding laundry and drinking decaffeinated mint tea. There’s a point in the movie when The Man is speaking to Lois Lane and she asks about the symbol on his chest. She remarks it looks like an ‘S’ and he responds that…