St. Andrew’s Church

Cold winter day

DAILY ART FIX: In the Arizona desert, James Turrell is creating one of the most ambitious artworks in American history.

THE REMODERN REVIEW

Art world links which caught my eye…

A view of the sky from inside the volcano

In early 2001, shortly after I moved to Arizona, I was fortunate enough to see a James Turrell exhibit at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Turrell creates incredible illusions through precision architecture and the manipulation of light. The strange effects he conjures through these mediums have to be experienced in person. Photos do not do justice to the impact of the environments he designs.

The show was a major art event in Arizona. Turrell was installing one of his Skyspaces at the museum, and had many other pieces on display. I remember one where I entered a plain white room which had an enormous blue rectangular painting hanging on the opposite wall. I had to draw closer to realize I was not seeing a flat surface of a painting at all. It was…

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When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls…

And the stars begin to twinkle in the sky—
In the mist of a memory you wander back to me
Breathing my name with a sigh…”

THE *smallness* of a big city

Seen from Manchester district, South of the James River

Carpenter Theatre Collage

Grace Street, RVA

Table Read by Actor’s Ensemble of four screenplays
Jan 13, 2013
photo: Canon A2300

Manhattan Montage

 

Day versus Night

Waiting for the Wind to Blow (so I can photograph these flags!)

Society of the Cincinnati, Washington, D.C. (Larz Anderson House) – clouds via Photoshop; statue of Geo. Washington

Church of the Pilgrims

monument to Taras Shevchenko, “Bard of The Ukraine”

the federal reserve building in richmond (observing the primacy of the picture plane)

When I say I want a two-dimensional picture I Mean It!

reaching out…

the beginning of a friendship?