Always great to get a new project editioned and ready for transport. This project ended up broken into two components: a risograph-heavy broadside with letterpress and an exclusively letterpress printed small edition. Risograph and letterpress on coverstock, edition size 125Lettepress…
I recently started a new position at the University of Arizona as the (extra long title drum roll) Printmaking/Letterpress/Publishing Lab Technician. A first task has been getting up and running with the Vandercook SP-15 proofing press. This is a press…
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…
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.
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…
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,…
“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…
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…
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.
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…
Translation of a photographic image from the Liberal Hooker Corridor project into a carved surface. The act of re-drawing slows the photographic process and converts a contemporary structure into a patterned, repeatable flattened form. The print functions as a secondary…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In the absence of light and vegetation and warmth… all architecture becomes conceptual. The everyday becomes monumental.
Stella Waitzkin, Details of a Lost Library, Hotel Chelsea, New York City, NY
View from the Lake Valley ghost town.
I want to conduct more research into the nature and origins of the bandaid colored architecture of New Mexico.
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…
Ongoing explorations into the use of large-scale typography in the built environments of the midwest. Taken in rural Kansas.
Again, Summer is Over (If You Want It).
A meditation on eye contact via mass mediated reality. Do we trust someone more when they look us in the eye? What about when those eyes are presented to us via lens capture and distribution via a screen? This image…
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…
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,…
