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I recently featured some work on the website using film shot with a very bizarre and unique camera rarely seen in the U.S., the Mundus Color 60. The Mundus is a french camera made in the postwar era that shoots still frame photos on 25ft rolls of 16mm film…..

I visited the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh last April for the second time in the past ten years, and it was even better than I remembered it. Warhol is a contemporary artist whose body of work needs, and deserves, a museum dedicated to his legacy, and It’s great to see it in his birthplace. They do a good job of rotating the pieces…

I’ve always thought the pieces in the Hexagon Derivative series would make great illustrations for a magazine article or advertisement, and the new TOKYO HD pieces were a perfect choice to try it. So I made this little web book called “CANDY COLORED CITY” designed using the Tokyo prints…

New month, new blog post: a few scans of medium format film I shot in Tokyo in 2017. I put the developed film away after getting it processed and I wasn’t sure if I would even use it in artwork. I hadn’t even looked at it closely when it came back from Dwayne’s Photo. Fast forward to a few months ago, I was sorting all my recent film…

Welcome 2019 and the first blog post of the year. I’m going to use it to close the book on some unfinished projects from the end of 2018. Like a lot of you I’m sure, I don’t make resolutions for the new year….

The other day I was organizing my artwork archives at home and I unwrapped some pieces I produced a few years ago when I worked at OpenStudio DC, a screenprinting studio that was on Florida Ave in Capitol Hill (later moved to Ivy City and now relocating to Baltimore). I started printing there in 2013, and it was a pivotal time for me as an artist…

Print delivery day is always a great, but this new batch I got in are really special. There’s no better feeling for me than seeing a film composition when it’s enlarged and printed, and really it’s the first time the art “exists” as something to be regarded..

Given all the attention being drawn (hilariously) to the forest management practices of Finland, I thought it would be a good time as an American who has actually seen - and extensively photographed the forests of central Finland…..

I’m going to dump a bunch of photos and thoughts in this post, simply to get them off my hard drive and onto this digital broadsheet. I titled this “The world that winter..” because it feels like every month that passes by in this age of ascendent fascism will be …

I recently had a milestone in my artistic career, my first magazine article as my Radiance series was featured in Issue 10 of Create! Magazine. It's not quite a "article", It's more of a short artist profile. The magazine is a bimonthly publication…

Admittedly I was not a very good student in art history when I was in university, so I was only familiar with Alex Katz by name prior to seeing  the gorgeous retrospective of his prints currently on view in the exhibit Alex Katz: A Life In Print at the Bellevue Art Museum….

It's been a really productive May and June for me as far as creating art. I've been working through my "backlog" of film from 2017 and 2018 - reviewing the film, re-reading my old notes on what I wanted to with it back in…

The Rainforest along the Carbon River is probably my most favorite hiking destination close to Seattle. It's far enough that it's well removed from civilization, but close enough that it's under 3 hours to drive there. And what a wonderland it is when you…

There's a lot going on in these two new compositions. First, they're bigger than usual because I wanted to expand on the idea that these compositions should tell a story of the forest in more detail than a single photo. That's one of my core reasons for creating this collage-type art…

Two new pieces from film shot at Mt. Rainier, built from shots taken in one of the alpine meadows at the base of the mountain. I adore this area and shot a lot of film there, including some super 8 film which I'll post in a few weeks. I'm trying a few new ideas in these pieces, some are more successful than others….

I recently completed some new work from film I shot in Mt. Rainier National Park - to mixed degrees of personal satisfaction. I was tempted to call this set "sketches" because I don't think they're pieces I'd try to exhibit or sell, but they aren't exactly failures either….

There is a old little train that takes you from downtown Bogota, Colombia to a small little pueblo about an hour outside of the city called Zipaquira. However this is no ordinary train ride. At various points on the slow ride, a 7-person tropical band fills the aisle of your car...

I'm in Cali, Colombia for the spring and while here I had the chance to visit one of the (only) spaces for contemporary art in Cali, the Museo La Tertulia. I've been to Cali a few times in the past three years and each time I learn more about the city and get a better feel for the cultural vibe....

Take a journey through the subterranean labyrinth of the Shinjuku station in Tokyo. Shinjuku is one of the major transfer stations in Tokyo which offers a connection point for all of the train lines that traverse the city and the outer suburbs. Like almost every first time tourist in Tokyo, I got "lost" in Shinjuku...