Continue Reading Sauvies Island, again Regular readers are familiar with my obsession with Sauvies Island. It is one of my favorite spots to photograph, or, more importantly,…
Continue Reading ArtsWatch A recent encounter with a stranger yielded a gift. She had perused my art website, found it to her liking and saw…
Continue Reading Recent Encounters I am often astonished when I think about the variety of experiences in my daily life. So I thought this week, instead…
Continue Reading Safety before Profit If you asked me last week what I think when I hear the word Oklahoma I’d say: State in the mid-West and a hit…
Continue Reading Defiance Yesterday I mused about how we can influence people’s attitudes by selectively presenting bits and pieces of photographed reality – leaving out…
Continue Reading The Album of Death The ten days between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur give people who are not completely saintlike (those latter automatically inscribed into the…
Continue Reading New Year’s Resolutions This week we observe Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year. It is the beginning of a ten day period of penitence that…
Continue Reading Monumental The earliest three-dimensional art was probably carvings, shortly followed by pottery. Ritualistic and functional purposes found artistic expression. Soon 3-D became large,…
Continue Reading Grounds for Sculpture If you ever want to go tripping without ingesting chemical substances into your body, travel to the hidden depths of Hamilton, New…
Continue Reading Blown Blown. or should I say: blown and blown. I am referring to the sculptural art I am describing today and the hurricane…
