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Pick of the week, Oct 1

October 1, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety. It is the goal, not the starting point.” — Maurice Saatchi

Mile Marker 432, 22″x34″

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Peace of the week, April 14

April 14, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda

Mile Marker 341, 35×51

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Peace of the week, January 27

January 27, 2014 by Chris | 0 Comments

“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.” — John Berger

Mile Marker 419, 35″x51″

Book Pusher

October 24, 2013 by Chris | 3 Comments

I’ll admit I have a second love in life after photography. A love that both fulfills and fuels my wanderlust. A love so deep and a desire so great that I have it tattooed on my shoulder. A young love that brought me ridicule. And a love that often keeps me from sleep at night. A love so great I am sharing it with the world on a street corner.

Reason #2 to host a workshop

October 11, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

As an artist creating work full-time with lots of deadlines, it is easy to get stuck in my studio, stuck in my head, stuck in my way of doing things. It is essential to me (and all artists) that we give ourselves the space and time to play creatively. This is where new ideas come from. This is where we find a new approach to our work. New stories that we want to tell. Often we are not very good at allowing ourselves the space and time to do that, to explore without expectations. Continue reading »

My New Photogravures of Guanajuato Open this Weekend!

July 11, 2013 by Chris | 1 Comment

“Reliquaries” Opens this weekend

I’ve been so busy on the road that I have been pretty quiet about a series of artwork I have opening this weekend. Continue reading »

Like a Player Piano – Guest Post by Steph Kilen

June 6, 2013 by Chris | 1 Comment

By Steph Kilen

When I get that feeling a friend calls “free floating angst” – that uneasiness you can’t pin on anything in particular, as if you’ve forgotten something important but don’t know what it is, that anxiety so common in our dreams, a burly thread weaving some sort of self-ridicule through your limbs – it used to be that I’d want to crawl into someone’s arms. But more and more, I just want to be here: Continue reading »

Pick of the week, Nov 19

November 19, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself. — Tecumseh

Mile Marker 270, 22x34

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Pick of the week, November 12

November 12, 2012 by Chris | 1 Comment

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. – William Hazlitt

Mile Marker 294, 35x51

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Pick of the week, Nov 5

November 5, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf. — Albert Schweitzer

Mile Marker 313, 16x22