Category Archives: Travel

Reliquaries

July 18, 2013 by Chris | 3 Comments

A new series of photogravures.

 

In the cobbled streets, colonial plazas, and alleyways of Guanajuato, Mexico, I feel the presence of those who have walked before me. If I am quiet, my heartbeat is echoed back to me by the textured passageways, ones created by centuries of craftsmen and artisans. In this place, each moment is both magnified and diminished by the history and memories held in the walls around me; the mundane can feel momentous and sacred when encased in the grandeur of the past. Guanajuato has become my winter home and the inspiration for my new photographic series, Reliquaries. Continue reading »

The Power of Nature

May 9, 2013 by Chris | 1 Comment

My focus as a photographer has consistently been to show the beauty in the “ordinary”, to make both myself and the viewer see the commonplace as the special place that it often is. However, many times on my travels, Mother Nature gives me the “extraordinary”, the scene so beautiful it slaps me in the face Continue reading »

A Fairy Tale

February 7, 2013 by Chris | 3 Comments

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.

 

 

Dancing (and more) in the streets

January 24, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

 

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 »

Colorful Guanajuato

January 18, 2013 by Chris | 2 Comments

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 »

Along the way

August 17, 2012 by Chris | 3 Comments

Why I can't write more...

After a great show at the Sun Valley Arts and Crafts Festival, great camping in the Sawtooth National Recreational Area, and some great meals, Kyle and I made our way to the Canadian Border where we stored our van and camper for a few days to vacation in Vancouver with our great friends and hosts, Jim Brown and Matt VanderWerff. Continue reading »

From the road so far

August 9, 2012 by Chris | 1 Comment

Cabela's RV "Park", Sidney, NE

10 Lessons learned or re-learned

  1. Sometimes an RV Park really just means RV Parking.
  2. All food tastes better when camping.
  3. Creativity should not be used when quoting a celebrity. Taught by the book we are listening to as we drive: Imagine: How Creativity works by Jonah Lehrer.
  4. A bike ride at the end of a long day in the van works out a lot of kinks. Continue reading »

The End of Summer

August 2, 2012 by Chris | 1 Comment

Four more days until Kyle and I are off for our NorthWest tour. With the heat here at home, it couldn’t come a moment too soon, but with the amount we need to get done before we leave, we could certainly use an extra moment or two! And this year we will be traveling with the camper we purchased in Idaho on last year’s tour, which adds another whole level of complexity to the preparations, but a new level of fun to the trip. Continue reading »

By the numbers

July 26, 2012 by Chris | 2 Comments

With the unrelenting triple digit temperatures in Kansas City, Kyle and I are counting the days (ten) until we leave for our NorthWest tour. So being the number geek that I am, and facing a full day of writing, I decided to count a few things first.

 

Our trip by the numbers:

 

  • 38 days of travel
  • 3 shows
  • 8 days of showing
  • 5,000+ miles of driving
  • 82+ hours of driving
  • 4 hours before we run out of things to talk about
  • 10 states
  • 1 province
  • 41 feet of vehicle
  • 1,230 number of songs we have time to listen to while driving
  • 19,595 number of songs we will have with us
  • 5,920 elevation of Sun Valley Art Fair
  • 60 lineal feet of display space in Art in the Pearl
  • 130,000 patrons at Saint Louis Art Fair
  • 95 pieces of artwork
  • ??? number of days it will take to recover

So many more things I could count today, but for now I need to write 1400 words, to answer 10 questions, to prepare for Artist Inc 2.

 

Whew what a week!

July 13, 2012 by Chris | 1 Comment

Sorry about the lack of blog post last week. I wanted to write to you, but, the thing is, the last couple of weeks have been really, really busy.

I have captured some of the high-lights and low-lights for you in pictures. Each one could be a post by itself, but the clock is ticking and I must go set up my show again in a few minutes. Continue reading »