The New Year

RECALIBRATE ~ RECONNECT ~ RESTORE ~ RENEW ~ REJOICE

China, one more time

This image was once again published today in the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald, the biggest newspaper in Hunan province, in their 2010 year-end report raising people's aware of enviroment protection.

On Ice and Snow

I just returned from my second (of the season) cross country ski outing along the shores of Lake Michigan. It was incredibly beautiful. I did not have my camera with me but took many mental notes on the ever changing light as I watched the "lake effect" snow move in. I was thinking of my ongoing interest in ice. Years ago I would combine water and "stuff" in containers, place it in my back yard and wait for it to freeze. I would then photograph whatever surprises awaited.



Last year while doing an artist residency during a deep freeze in January at Ragdale, I started playing with ice and snow again. Sometimes when I TRY to intervene with nature, it just doesn't work that well. It feels contrived.



And then in early March there were shards of ice lining the beach. I was in a state of rapture as I took in the ephemeral beauty.





It seems that try as I might to manipulate my subject, no one does it better than mother nature.

some things never change

on "holidays"

Yesterday I was driving in my car and saw this text on the back of a truck.

Everyday is a "HOLIDAY."

That just says it all.

Just in from Beijing

This could be the last of numerous publications of my Crude Awakening series...thought I would share as it is fresh off the press from the Fellow Traveller Magazine in China.

Butterfly Installation at Macro Museum in Rome

Thanks to a forward from Susan to Edward Lifson's blog, Hello Beautiful, I learned about another butterfly installation, only this time the butterflies are real. How cool is this?





A new installation by Bik Van der Pol – a house with hundreds of butterflies inspired by Mies van der Rohe’s popular Farnsworth House – was chosen to inaugurate the new wing of the MACRO Museum in Rome.