More Testing

Selecting and sequencing for a little online publication.  Couple folks are looking in with suggestions.  I'm not very smart but I do know people who are....

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Testing.

 

Still life with flowers and feathers...

Out on the landscape...I'm not in charge of lighting or props or moving tree lines around.  I can't arrange a cloud.  God is in charge.  Its his show.  Or gaia, or chance.  Anyway, not mine.  But in the studio, nothing happens that isn't my idea and under my control.  I'm god, dadgum it.  Turns out to be a lot of trouble.

  Magic & Logic has fractured into 10 Texas Tornadoes, Fighting Knives with Flowers,  Books, Hand of Sabasius, Cicadas...and more I'm sure.

Flowered fingers.

MidWinter Roses.

Feather ladder.

Dogwood pages.

Cicada hand.

Some curator could have a field day, but in general, curators are too busy to be interested in artists.  All brand-new, smoking work.  I won't be around to see it in 32 years.

 

Tyler Museum of Art Surprise- Images and prints from 32 years ago.

   In the late 80 and early 90s I was shooting local landscape.  Mostly 4X5 and 5X7.  The Tyler Museum of Art director Ron Gleason was very encouraging.  I had a show of these images and they included them in their permanent collection.

  Forward to current day:  Curator Caleb Bell and Director Chris Leahy still very supportive.  These came out of the vault for a show of the TMA overall collection.  I'm just a small part of that show but very interesting to see the images and printing.  Held up well enough to suit me. 32 year old prints and images. Last ones I shot with 4X5.  Humbled and pleased to be included.

My second favorite tree in the county.

Got a whole wall, and they fill it up.

My favorite tree in the world.  Photographed it until it got bulldozed down last year.  I missed it last will and will miss it this Spring.  Lots of images of it at the peak of its cycle.  Once I carried my daughter on my arm and we walked under it from the downwind side during the bloom.  I pointed out the trail of bees over us.  When we got to the tree I had her listen.  Her eyes suddenly widened as she heard the sound of 10,000 bees.

This little beauty in the background of bigger tree with chairs photo.

Happy to be near the Clyde Connells.

So much unseen work.  At the height of my powers, really, but hacking in obscurity.

Pneumbra

 New light work in the space of the West.  Couple of new favorite places for me.

Light in the desert.

                                                      Boulder emerging from shadow.

  This work is mostly 5X7 sheet film and Deardorff, thought I am beginning to appreciate Fuji 6X9 roll film cameras.

Entrance from previous world.

 

Lots of new work....veritable cascade.  Blogger quit letting me upload a couple years ago as they abandon Safari, or Apple does.

  But here's a couple of samples.

Shooting these with Hasselblad and HP5 120.  Using Pyrocat for developer.

The Blackfork Bestiary up in Talon Gallery, Show Low, Arizona.

Very nice video from the staff at the Talon Gallery and Northland Pioneer College showing this body of work along with some of the writing that goes with these photographs.

Thanks to Magda Gluzek and the staff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ntx9IL0PbMU