Rock Pallette

 

While I was at Playa I would constantly stoop down to pick up pebbles from the gravel drive. Although the drive looks gray at first glance the individual rocks were of extraordinary variety. I gradually laid them out on the boardwalk in front of my cabin (ala Andrew Goldsworthy - although my little pet rock project is not worthy of that association). I'll also post it on my Flickr page so you can view it larger and scroll back and forth.
-hmmm. That didn't work either. I'll figure it out later.

Some Photographs

Here's a few photographs from my stay at the Playa Summer Lake residency program

Looking down at the north end of Summer Lake basin

Abert Rim

Summer Lake Hot Springs (the spring feeds a pool in the old barn)

Remnants of a fire on Winter Ridge

More dead trees

My cabin at Playa (on right)

Cattle drive on route 31 with Playa commons building in background

I'm back

I returned yesterday from my residency at Playa. It was a fantastic productive experience. I'll be posting photographs and artwork over the coming days and weeks.
Here's a  couple of pictures of the grounds from a spur up on Winter Ridge.

I'm off

Well, the time is finally here. I head out tomorrow a.m. for Summer Lake Playa to spend 4 weeks working on art, thinking about art, and occasionally just soaking up the isolation. No cell phone reception. And very limited dial-up interent access on a community computer. I hope to barely use it at all.

Interview at Triggerfish

(Wow. First post since November over here. It's been a hectic couple of months.)
Anyway I did an interview for an online poetry magazine called "Triggerfish critical review".
It is completely unedited including asides that I had not intended to be used, but I guess that makes it all the more honest. I apologize for the typos which are entirely my own as the interview was conducted via email.
You can go directly to the interview here.

(thanks to David Mehler for his interest  in my work - I swear we'll actually sit down and meet sometime!)

"Edge of Night" show

I'm heading up on Sunday to pick up my work from Artswest in Seattle. They were kind enough to email me these pictures from the show. I think it looked pretty good.

Laurie Anderson Interview

For my other blog I recently interviewed Laurie Anderson. My first interview with anyone ever. It was a very short interview by phone prompted by her agent looking for free blogospheriness (to coin a word that will no doubt immediately take off) for Ms. Anderson's art show in Philadelphia.
Anyway you can see the whole thing here: http://artoutthere.blogspot.com/2011/11/laurie-anderson.html
I didn't exactly plumb the depths of Ms. Anderson's soul. My career as a pro interviewer is still a ways off. But it was interesting and turned out OK I think.
Here's a nice pic of her with long time partner and hubby since 2008, Lou Reed. Despite my wife's urging I did NOT ask her about THAT.