Pink Theory!
My friend and long-time collaborator, Éireann Lorsung has a new book coming out in January 2027, titled Pink Theory! She…
Image Drift
A visual (and sometimes textual) chronicle tracking recent interests and focal points.
New on the Press Bed
I recently started a new position at the University of Arizona as the (extra long title drum roll) Printmaking/Letterpress/Publishing Lab…
TUS – Abandoned Romeo
Only in Tucson, Arizona do you take a walk down the street, catch what should be a coming thunderstorm evaporating…
TUS – Gay Men
A walk through the Feldman’s neighborhood in Tucson turns up this curious piece of graffiti. “GAYMEN” in all capitals. Along…
Baudrillard’s Smiles
In America (1986), Baudrillard observed that the American smile is not an expression of genuine happiness but a kind of…
The Power of the Absent (Image)
Difficult images are a particular preoccupation of mine. Following Susan Sontag’s framework, I use “difficult” to mean images that are…
KS — Unconventional Dwelling 2
Image of a white geodesic dome resting on flat ground like an artifact from a future that never arrived. Utopia…
NE — Unconventional Dwelling 1
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing…
PDX – Liminal Waiting Space
A moment in the Portland Airport, reflecting on Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and Augé’s notion of non-places. Continuing to experiment…
Orcas Island
Image made of the topography maps of Orcas Island in Washington. Obscured by collected water and condensation, the map becomes…
TUS – Prowler
Photograph of a stationary travel trailer patched, repainted, and marked by repeated dark motifs along its windows. The image operates…
SAF — Directional Blue
Photograph of a wooden gate marked by a blue arrow aligned against an open sky. The image functions as a…
SAF – Cyano-gradient
Photograph of the La Farge Library building in Santa Fe, NM under clear sky. Painted form and atmosphere align in…
OK – Liberal Hooker Woodcut
Translation of a photographic image from the Liberal Hooker Corridor project into a carved surface. The act of re-drawing slows…
DEN – Liminal and Bleak
Photograph made under the undulating jingles of the Denver International Airport’s underground tramway system. Each of the cars was empty…
OR – Deadfall (After Robert Adams)
Image made while kayaking the Willamette River in rural Oregon. The deadfall tree was washed onto a temporary alluvial island…
MKE – Modernity Illuminated
Night view through the windows of the Milwaukee Museum of Art addition (designed by Santiago Calatrava, completed in 2001). The…
MSP – Winter Forms/Glow
This image was made in the storage area of an Ecuadorian restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota during the golden hour. This…
MSP – Winter
In the absence of light and vegetation and warmth… all architecture becomes conceptual. The everyday becomes monumental.
Sheboygan – Kohler Arts Center
Stella Waitzkin, Details of a Lost Library, Hotel Chelsea, New York City, NY
Looking (Right Now)
I’ve always been interested in visibility, what it means to be visible and what new technologies aid/impede being visible. The…
NM – Small & Large Chaotic Phenomena
NM – Eastward Gaze
View from the Lake Valley ghost town.
NM – Bandaid Buildings
I want to conduct more research into the nature and origins of the bandaid colored architecture of New Mexico.
TCS – Interstitial
TCS – Interstitial Fill
The city of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico is a reminder that capital flows are never constant, unidirectional, or without…
NM – Ancient Lovers
KS – Spring Time Slab Serifs
Ongoing explorations into the use of large-scale typography in the built environments of the midwest. Taken in rural Kansas.
WI – Kawasaki
Again, Summer is Over (If You Want It).
SAN – Newscaster
A meditation on eye contact via mass mediated reality. Do we trust someone more when they look us in the…