Saturday, December 22, 2012
















Dolls from the Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe, NM

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Sunday, October 14, 2012

I think that landscape is often an escapist genre. But, even if you start with an environmental idea, it is not what you profess; it is what you express that counts. That’s my problem with most political painting. It is not very convincing. What do your behavior or your actions demonstrate? What do they express? 

--Rackstraw Downes

Sunday, October 07, 2012






















(William Powhida)

Wednesday, September 19, 2012






















(Anthony Discenza)

Tuesday, August 07, 2012

I have this belief that if you have an idea, and if you have to write it down to remember it, then it can't be a great idea.
--Tino Sehgal

Friday, August 03, 2012

The recently decommissioned Evergreen Pulp Mill on Humboldt Bay
Platform marking the position of a utility cable under Humboldt Bay

Thursday, August 02, 2012

Site of the former Simpson Plywood Company, Humboldt Bay

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Today a region is generally understood not as a politically or geographically delimited space, but one determined by stories, loyalty, group identity, common experiences and histories (often unrecorded), a state of mind rather than a place on a map.

--Lucy Lippard

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Sunday, July 22, 2012

Humboldt Bay transmission lines and substations

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Sunday, July 08, 2012






Boat Tour of Humboldt Bay, Northern California

Friday, July 06, 2012




Humboldt Bay's Oyster Beds

Thursday, July 05, 2012

Wednesday, July 04, 2012

In other urban environments, you tend to feel it when what you are doing is against the grain of the city. But when you are in Los Angeles, everything you do simply lays down a new path that is appropriate for some future, emerging lifestyle. It just feels like there are a thousand different ways of using this landscape, and they're all somehow appropriate.
--Geoff Manaugh

Saturday, June 23, 2012

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Being worthy of our present times is the pre-condition for cultivating the ethical ability to resist the negativity of these times. The ethical-political concept here is the necessity to think with the times and in spite of the times, not in a belligerent mode of oppositional consciousness, but as a humble and empowering gesture of co-construction of sustainable futures.

--Rosi Braidotti

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Monday, May 07, 2012

Sunday, May 06, 2012



(Life drawings by my student Ben Maple.)