TUS – Abandoned Romeo
Only in Tucson, Arizona do you take a walk down the street, catch what should be a coming thunderstorm evaporating above you… and see that someone has abandoned an Alfa-Romeo directly in front of you. There is a feeling of…
Category Environments
TUS – Gay Men
A walk through the Feldman’s neighborhood in Tucson turns up this curious piece of graffiti. “GAYMEN” in all capitals. Along with one singular swastika.
Baudrillard’s Smiles
In America (1986), Baudrillard observed that the American smile is not an expression of genuine happiness but a kind of social contract — a permanent, obligatory display of openness and goodwill. It signals “I am not a threat” rather than…
KS — Unconventional Dwelling 2
Image of a white geodesic dome resting on flat ground like an artifact from a future that never arrived. Utopia doesn’t always recede; sometimes it becomes an iconic form. The geometry is declarative, almost didactic—a structure that believes in efficiency,…
NE — Unconventional Dwelling 1
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” — Buckminster Fuller I found this earthen home pressed into the prairie hillside in Northern Nebraska. This house…
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 with adapting older lenses onto a contemporary mirrorless body. In this case, I’m using a Canon 50mm SSC f1.4 lens…
Orcas Island
Image made of the topography maps of Orcas Island in Washington. Obscured by collected water and condensation, the map becomes as abstruse as the landscape in the mist.
SAF – Cyano-gradient
Photograph of the La Farge Library building in Santa Fe, NM under clear sky. Painted form and atmosphere align in hue. The image operates as a comparative surface rather than a view: an informal cyanometer in which architectural blue is…
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 of passengers, despite it being a peak travel day after Thanksgiving holiday. The crumpled toilet paper that (somehow) wandered into…
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 in the river and then embellished with the addition of a copyright sign. A wildfire fighting helicopter trained overhead, there…
MKE – Modernity Illuminated
Night view through the windows of the Milwaukee Museum of Art addition (designed by Santiago Calatrava, completed in 2001). The frame records a surface where institutional space and exterior ground merge. The image brackets a cultural node within a larger…
MSP – Winter Forms/Glow
This image was made in the storage area of an Ecuadorian restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota during the golden hour. This was the warmest feeling exterior space (visually and physically) for the entirety of the day. The space recorded reflects a…
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
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 turbulence. From one vantage point, the city represents a type of heterotopia and a potential gap in the mechanics of…
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).
ABQ – Andrea (Variance)
I was once told by a friend that they could easily spot me at a great distance simply from the way I move my feet when I am walking. There’s a great deal of truth to this. We exhibit an…
NE – Mildred
One of the few photographs that I have of my paternal grandmother, Mildred. That is not to say that I do not have many of her photographs, however. Like Mildred, I’ve spent a great deal of time photographing material objects,…
WI – Summer Is Over (If You Want It)
CO – La Junta, Atmospheric Conditions
KS – Dwellers of the Plains
KS – Dwellers of the Plains
KS – Dwellers of the Plains
ABQ – Lost Tortillas
If we are nothing but members of a consumer society — we would no longer live in a world at all — but instead inside a process of ever-recurring cycles of things appearing and disappearing. Hannah Arendt