Installation views of Sword of the Sun in the Perspectives Gallery at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design this past spring. Huge thanks to Jon Horvath for the invitation and installation. I asked Jon to arrange the circular table of objects in the spirit of collaboration. Many thanks to MIAD recent graduate, Danny McCullough, for taking pictures of the show (I'm pretty sure that is his hand their in the second image). I love how this work evolves and shifts with each new gallery space. New works mingle with older pieces, table arrangements are always in flux from one show to the next. The first version of this work came together in 2014 at the Law Warschaw Gallery at Macalester College in St. Paul. I made a book version of this work as well. The book was an experiment in translating the spirit of the work into book form rather than simply making a catalog of the work from the St. Paul installation. 

Lifted from my studio wall - a constant haunting of a certain kind of landscape stewardship, natural disaster clean up, errant collecting, and/or how car tires work through the simple capture of pressured air inside rubber rings. Do you ever think about this driving on the freeway? This is a 4"x 6" machine print from a 35mm negative. Photographed on Bever Avenue at 16th Street SE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 2010 or so, probably in the spring. 

Working on a new phase of Sword of the Sun... shortened title is Same Sum. Furthering the blurred boundaries between where, how, and when I can make work. Letting it all flow together. 

New works are brewing in my studio. Out and about in Saint Cloud and around my house... thinking about hand washing, automation, and finding answers...

Join me in early February in Milwaukee for the inaugural Pitch Project Artist Book Fair! I am thrilled to be hosting the Conveyor Arts table - signed copies of Half Wild will be available. I'll also be mixing in a couple AA books as well as a small edition of new self-published book, Gas Money. More to come soon!

I've raised $120 in under a week for the Sierra Club through sales of my double-sided poster, Nearly A Million Sunsets. Thank you! It's not much, but it's something. Sierra Club has a long history of environmental advocacy on local and national levels. Here are a few contact sheets from my trip to Yosemite National Park in 2011 while working on Half Wild. 

Crowds gather at Glacier Point.

Hiking up to Old Inspiration Point and portraits made at Old Inspiration Point (the major, historical vantage point of Yosemite Valley).

Original two frames of Grizzly Giant, looking up at GG, trail path, and a charred tree.

Two new pictures in the works...

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Step Ladder, archival pigment print, 24" x 16"

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Live Oak, archival pigment print, 24" x 16"

Joy Drury Cox and I are in an ongoing conversation over on A New Nothing. Get lost in that site! So much good stuff to see!

Time Coast is a tumblr I started after a residency at Coast Time in Lincoln City, Oregon in 2015. Images continue to come in from residencies, or travels, and sometimes just stay there or are eventually added to my studio stew...