Picture Windows

Accabonac Harbor I

Accabonac Harbor II

The Fall of 2010, just before my first trip out to Marin and the Bay area, i had my first solo photo show (and my last photo show to date) at Smith Clothing in Southampton NY. Big thanks to Alissa Smith, a dear friend and bitchn' stitcher and clothing aficionado.

I have thought to throw together a west coast show, something like what I did back when i was with the Arts 4 and Bonic Tonic art collectives- a  open call art show at either Toby's or the Bolinas community center, to bring community and art together in one show.

 the solo show at Smith was a sort of semi retirement to showing art- the collectives had mostly disbanded or moved in other directions, and i had felt a calling to do something different. 

Permaculture had mostly taken over, but the call to stop showing was mostly a stagnation in how i felt about my own art, and wanting to take some time off to work with what i already had- thousands of negatives and files to put together into a coherent collection that reflected some sort of tangible body of art work. 

Since then i have still shot a TON of film, filled memory cards, and turned to sketching and water colors. so much for taking the time to trudge through the already existing work i have.

Abby on Long Island

 These are just a few of the prints in that  show, titled Picture Windows. some were taken with my phone, some with my digital and 35mm film, and others with 120mm format film.

 photography is an expression of time, a view into a window containing a moment that i feel i might have over looked it, if wasn't for that shutter click.  its the essence of the romantic, the captured moment in time that preserves every nuance of the feeling in the air, light, sound, people, and most of all nature caught off guard in all its beauty and intensity. these and many others from the past 8 years have been trickling back through my field of vision. 

they have been lost in the bowels of my digital mini-universe that swirls around inside this little machine i am sitting at, often forgotten or unseen for years at a time as i click away in the present onto film strips and memory cards. Enjoy.

2 minute Exposure at 1am.

                                             

Oaxaca Plaza in Miniature

Channing Daughters Winery Tree Sculptures

Channing Daughters Winery tree sculptures

 these two wonderful photos are separate from that show i had, but some great sculptures made by a good family friend Walter Channing. his winery is also home to 20 acres or so of sculpture gardens- many of which are created with full standing trees placed all around on their tops, carved into #2 pencils, and all sorts of creative free standing figures walking amongst the meadows.