The Review Santa Fe 100

I am looking forward to trying to meet everyone! So much exciting work.

Be sure to follow Flak Photo this summer as it features the works by many of this summer's Review Santa Fe participants!

talk at the Englewood Art Center

I had the pleasure of talking with 30 people today at the Englewood Art Center. It was an informal conversation about my experience at the Hermitage and about my photographic process. It was a delight!



I never can seem to stand still.... the audience was very gracious and followed me around the room. Many thanks to the Hermitage and the Englewood Art Center, specifically Sloan Dunnagan and Patricia Caswell.

Turtle tracks...

As seen this morning, loggerhead turtle nest found by Suzan...
more on the loggerhead here

time on the key...

Great Aunt Rose Marie, July 2008

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

Visited the Ringling Museum of Art to see the Picturing Eden show. I enjoyed the exhibition very much. It was great to see such an extensive group show of many of my favorite photographers, it was an afternoon with old friends...Masao Yamamoto, J. John Priola, Binh Danh, Camille Solyagua, JoAnne Verburg, Susan Derges, Sally Mann, John Pfahl.... The catalogue for the exhibition (orginally at the George Eastman House in 2006) was done by Steidl, you can buy it here.

From the museum:

Picturing Eden, organized by George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, features the work of 37 artists from six countries —including well-known artists Mike and Doug Starn, Adam Fuss, Ruud van Empel, Joel-Peter Witkin, and Sally Mann, as well as emerging artists such as Gavin Hipkins, Alec Soth, and Lori Nix.

Alec Soth, Lori Nix and Gavin Hipkins are emerging artists???


two images of the impressive courtyard at the Ringling...

One man built this for his personal art collection??????

memorial day...

The beach is packed today. Hundreds of people enjoying the sun and water because of a national holiday in memory of those that serve.

show at Englewood Art Center...

time on the key - wall 1

time on the key - wall 2

time on the key - wall 3

petrified

petrified and entrance

We (myself, Sloan, Richard, Suzan and Jim) pinned 150 images in the back gallery of the Englewood Art Center.

Without all of that help I would still be pinning. Thank you!!!!

installing today...

at Englewood Art Center...

Suzan Zeder and Billy Seago...

Today I had the honor of attending a reading of Suzan Zeder's new play The Edge of Peace, starring Billy Seago playing Tuc. It was an affecting performance. It is such an honor to share my time at the Hermitage Artist Retreat with Suzan and Billy.

The Edge of Peace is the third play in Zeder's trilogy about the small town of Ware in the 1940's. Mother Hicks takes place in the 1930's and is the first play of the trilogy. The Taste of Sunrise is the second play and takes the audience back in time to the 1920's focusing on the character Tuc.

The Edge of Peace is the third play in a trilogy that began with Zeder’s award-winning, play Mother Hicks. Set in 1945 in the final desperate months of World War II, this play explores the impact on a family and community when a local boy is declared MIA overseas and his younger brother refuses to believe what seems inevitable. This staged reading features Seattle actor Billy Seago as the Deaf postman, Tuc. In the visual poetry of American Sign Language, Tuc takes us on a journey of hope through a landscape of loss.

on the Hermitage porch- sonja, jim, suzan & billy

picture of a picture...

This is one of the most important images in the Florida sequence. Unfortunately I do not have the files with me here so you will have to deal with a picture of the picture...

waning moon - 27% of full

Its very dark here at night with the waning moon. This image is from my trip in December and the glow of the waxing gibbous moon.

new studio at Hermitage...

Since my first visit in July of 2008 the Hermitage has built new facilities. Just short of a year later, I am pleased to be able to work in the Digman Beach Cottage! Room to spread out, produce and think about editing / sequencing of images. Preparing a few loose ends for my show at the Englewood Art Center next week.

from iphone

back to the Hermitage...2

Got in tonight after sunset but I look forward to the next 12 on the beach. Over the next two weeks I will be posting images from visits to the Hermitage on Manasota Key. I will be using the blog as an extension of the small show I will be having at the Englewood Art Center next week. Stay tuned!...

2-DO

Lots to do. Someday I wish I was Marry Poppins--with her carpetbag of tricks.

Adam is having an effect on me--WATCH.

Two Minds, Four Hands, Twenty Fingers

The past two weeks have been jammed packed with scanning, print layouts, and promo design. I am trying to get ready for my last visit to the Hermitage in Florida--which I leave for on Sunday--and Review Santa Fe shortly there after. Adam Longbonz--my new assistant has been a great help (and comic relief) the past couple weeks. He seems to navigate my disorderly organizational system without too much confusion!
Today a strange buzz has been in the air at the Shampoo Horn. I successfully got a great design worked out with Loveleaf press--check em' out. Dan Saal is graciously sharing his talents by aiding in the design of my new lacuna book. Adam sold two pieces. Not to mention my chicken salad sandwich was pretty righteous.
Not bad for a Tuesday.