Author Archives: Chris

Photographic Mixed Media Artist

Leopold Gallery

Come help me celebrate!

I’m super excited to announce my new partnership with the LEOPOLD Gallery in beautiful Brookside in Kansas City, MO.

 

 

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Peace of the week, March 4

Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art. – Ambrose Bierce

 

Mile Marker 328, 16x22

 

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Peace of the week, February 25

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

Mile Marker 323, 16x22

 

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Peace of the week

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. –  Miriam Beard

 

Mile Marker 327, 16x22

 

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Peace of the week, Feb 11

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I’ve gone and come back, I’ll find it at home. — Rumi

 

MIle Marker 331, 22x34

 

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A Fairy Tale

A three year old sits with a giant box of crayons and not enough paper. She gets her hands and face dirty with reckless abandon.

 

 

Peace of the week, Jan 28

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it – memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. –  Tad Williams

El Fusilado, Valenciana, Guanajuato

 

Watch for more photogravure images from Guanajuato throughout the spring as I prepare for my upcoming show.

Dancing (and more) in the streets

 

Guanajuato is full of surprises!

Last weekend within 200 yards of our house was a carnival, a marching band, a street car parade, and an Aztec ceremony of some sort in a church yard. For such a diminutive town Guanajuato can be quite a busy place! Continue reading »

Peace or the week, Jan 21

“There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Mile Marker 309, 22x34

Happy belated birthday Dr King!

 

Colorful Guanajuato

Kyle and I are back in Guanajuato, Mexico for our little winter warm up.

 

And I have to admit, our entry has been a little tougher this year. Not only because we are missing our friends Cheri and Allen desperately, but also because we both arrived with expectations this year. Both of us have pretty serious amounts of work that we would like to accomplish while we are here. I am shooting a new series for photo-gravure to be displayed at the Perlow-Stevens Gallery this summer, and Kyle has a lot of work to do on his pedal-steel guitar.

And isn’t it precisely these moments when life has a way of throwing a wrench in the system? Continue reading »