The drawings have been getting darker over the past year. In my new artist book The Horsemen of the 21st Century I remember an event from one night of camping in the Sierras. We are tented on frosted ground near the edge of a night forest. A pounding of hooves rushes close by. Deer? we… Continue reading The Horsemen of the 21st Century
Tag: digital art
Northwest River Stones
photo: Randy Powell All through the Northwest cold weather I worked on this collection of drawings, photos and assemblages about, to, and for the humble river stone. Like most humans they are abundant and self effacing (with a few notable exceptions!) and their beauty can be quite profound when one takes the energy to really… Continue reading Northwest River Stones
Artist Books in the Digital Age
Just in case you are in the northern San Francisco Bay Area on Sunday, March 23, 2 – 4PM, check this out: There is a rare book and print treasury at the JFK Library in Vallejo called the McCune Collection. Jan has been invited to lecture for about an hour in the McCune room on… Continue reading Artist Books in the Digital Age
Open Road
There are times when one must accept that one is not going to go on a road trip — of the physical type, anyway — for a while. That is when a trip by poetry can provide what is needed. I went back to Leaves of Grass by Walt Witman and was once again adrenalized… Continue reading Open Road
Visual Bon-Bon
Getting close to finishing an Idea which hatched during my residency at Blue Mountain Center, and that is a box of visual bon-bons. In actuality they are geometric puzzles to which I added photographs, prints and drawings. You can find these puzzles on the internet by searching for “flexagons”. One fairly simple puzzle with an… Continue reading Visual Bon-Bon
Artist’s Studio at Blue Mountain
To make art you need time and a place. I have been given the gift of a month of unobstructed time by Blue Mountain Center. Staff here bends over backward to make my time here as productive as I want to make it. As for a place, that could be a prison cell, a dining… Continue reading Artist’s Studio at Blue Mountain
Road Trip to Dallas
It’s time to hit the road again. Oola and I are going to Dallas – with stops along the way – to a family wedding. Before the camera, people on the Grand Tour would keep their observations in a sketchbook. This ties in perfectly with my conviction that I remember places and things I take the… Continue reading Road Trip to Dallas
The Hunger Curios
As a child I loved the Mother West Wind Stories by Thornton Burgess. At the time I was not aware of the social commentary going on in the tales of these animals. As an adult I found many references to topics like hunger. I made this artist-book based on four of those references. You can… Continue reading The Hunger Curios
Fourth Street Studios
Within the memory of living artists there exists the dregs of an attitude toward photography that said, photography is not Art. It is merely a technical production of an image. Painting is “Art”. This attitude has fortunately waned. And I remember an art professor who insisted that etching was art, but silkscreen was not, because… Continue reading Fourth Street Studios
Oola vs the Forces of Evil and Dismay
Click on the card to see a larger version. Following on the chicken/egg question – and along the lines of “Does language express our concepts, or does language create our concepts” – in this body of art and tomfoolery Jan asks “Are images the result of our perceptions, hopes, and fears, or do images create… Continue reading Oola vs the Forces of Evil and Dismay
Dove Studio 