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…
Image Drift
A visual (and sometimes textual) chronicle tracking recent interests and focal points.
Pt. 1 – An Aesthetic That Will Not Die
Recently, I was traveling through the upper Midwest (Nebraska, South Dakota) and had the opportunity to meet up with a…
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…
ABQ – Andrea (Variance)
I was once told by a friend that they could easily spot me at a great distance simply from the…
NE – Mildred
One of the few photographs that I have of my paternal grandmother, Mildred. That is not to say that I…
WI – Summer Is Over (If You Want It)
