Leica M, 60 mm Macro Elmarit – R
Category Archives: Self Expression
On the road again…
…a 14 hour adventure. New terrain revealed. (right click photo to open in new tab or window for larger view) It began with an internet search for “rustic stick furniture.” Ann expressed a desire to replace the 30 year old leather set that sat in the “three seasons room.” She’d seen a rocking chair in Mineral […]
Robin, Shamrock, Fresh Warm Bread
Robin, Shamrock, Fresh, Warm, Bread … Surely a poem can be found between and around those words, in the morning, in the spring time, if I look long, listen, and smell softly. Leica M, 350 mm Telyt-R
Traces…
…both startling and subtle Leica M Monochrom, 50 mm Summilux Asph
First friday flower appears…
…in the yard as snow flakes fall through spring and food from the kiln Leica M, 60 mm Macro Elmarit-R
Cosmically seeking…
…leads to Cosmically speaking, Encaustic Number 4 Heat turns solids into liquids and gases. Gesture and texture. Fuse. Burn. Melt. Blend. Combine. Join. Bond. Merge. Intermingle. Integrate. Intermix. Synthesize. Coalesce. How is this not cosmic… inconceivably vast… in nature? Learning the language. (right click to open in new tab or window for larger view) Leica M, 60 mm Macro Elmarit- R
A very subtle process…
this collecting, arranging and waiting. Why would anyone pickup a couple of skeletal seed pods? Because they whispered something to me in that moment. They sat around the office/studio for weeks. A few other objects were gathered around them. They got lost. Because they’re so light. They’d just blow away. Then found. Waiting. I think. To […]
Seeking to surprise the eyes…
(click photograph for larger view) Leica M, 50 mm Summilux Asph Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph
On Assignment (from Ted Grant): Car Reflection
(click photograph for larger view) Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph
Thanks for the memories: The Avant Garde, Negative Movement, Milwaukee Organizing Committee, Viet Nam, the Draft, Race Riots, Assassinations, Music, Poetry, Sit-ins, Be-ins, Marches.
In 2010, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee embarked on a long-term, multi-departmental research project focused on the Avant Garde Coffeehouse, a local landmark and center of the folk/blues revival in Wisconsin from 1962 to 1968. There were places like this in other areas, but, in Wisconsin, none as important as the Avant Garde. It presented local […]