Art is incompatible with social media
This image got banned from Instagram. Twice. I'm not entirely sure why, although I suspect someone thinks they can see a nipple somewhere in it. The horror. I don't have…
Experiments in depicting the human form
Experiments in the Human Form
Things don’t always go as planned in art. And that’s a good thing! Experimentation has a key role in creativity. (more…)
Messengers
Messengers
Sometimes it seems like an image is a messenger, trying to convey something deeper from a place beyond consciousness. (more…)
New Work: Physical Psychological
I’ve been creating some new artwork that gets at the physical-psychological link between perception and bodily reality. (more…)
Edges
I just got back from a weeklong photographic workshop with Connie Imboden up a the Maine Media Workshops. It was an amazing experience and I’ll write more about it later, but one thing in particular stuck with me. Connie repeatedly emphasized paying attention to the edges of the frame. The constrictions of the photographic form force us into a defined compositional shape, but the form can be a source of creative seeing as well. (more…)
Memories of camping
How do I show you a memory?
We could hear the storm rolling up the valley, slowly rumbling in its ascent of our ridge line. (more…)
Revisiting Previous Work
I spent some time revisiting images I made as part of a shoot last year. I didn’t originally intend to spend a day going back through an old Lightroom catalog, but a hard drive crash and rebuild necessitated a few hours spent reconnecting files. And in doing so I reconnected with some work I had forgotten about.
