Saturday, November 16, 2013


One of my favorite things about art/artists in the world today is that beyond any kind of label of "activist", a wide range of image makers and cultural producers are stepping up as artistic public intellectuals and taking a very active role in public discourse about complex themes that cannot be resolved by straight forward politics, science, social science or journalism. They are eschewing the marginality where most artists seem willing to wallow.
 
--Daniel Tucker

Friday, September 27, 2013

















Breaching a 100-year old dike on Humboldt Bay to restore a long-lost wetland (September 26, 2013)

Saturday, June 29, 2013

Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

--Natalie Jeremijenko

Sunday, June 23, 2013

The only way in which we can bring our creative resources fully into play is by misjudging the nature of the task, by presenting it to ourselves as more routine, simple, undemanding of genuine creativity than it will turn out to be.

--Malcolm Gladwell

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Friday, May 31, 2013

Tuesday, May 28, 2013


Artists address issues that are dormant, overlooked, or otherwise outside the purview of the public realm.

--Steven Lam

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Art is the R&D of culture. It is able to explore all things, in all contexts, crossing boundaries, breaking rules, transecting layers, making connections, new categories, radical theories, house conflicting content, etc. It can enrich our awareness in inconceivable ways, and change the meaning of anything. Not saying it does all the time, but it can. That is its license, and its role, and maybe even its duty. 

--Matt Coolidge

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Monday, May 20, 2013



Humboldt Bay Historical Salt Marsh Distribution 
(Image courtesy Aldaron Laird)

Saturday, May 18, 2013















Spartina Densiflora removal at the Eureka Slough Unit of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge

Thursday, May 16, 2013
















The mouth of the Eureka Slough

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

Monday, May 06, 2013

Irrigated America (image courtesy Steve Rowell)

Friday, May 03, 2013
































(Paintings by my student Colin Crawford.)

Sunday, April 28, 2013

All cultural production, to a certain extent, is a kind of myth-making. The trick is to do it responsibly, I think.

--Trevor Paglen

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Monday, March 18, 2013

Sunday, February 24, 2013

Friday, February 22, 2013


















(Image by Ken Ehrlich)

Tuesday, January 29, 2013


















(image by Aurora Tang)

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Friday, January 11, 2013

Sunday, January 06, 2013