Tag Archives: photograph on steel

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 »

Precious metals

May 16, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

Some women get excited about a new pair of shoes or a new handbag. And I’m sure on Mother’s Day last weekend lots of women were thrilled with a new piece of jewelry. But as for me, I like my metal a little less precious and a lot more bulky! Continue reading »

Weekly Peace – January 7

January 7, 2013 by Chris | 0 Comments

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” —  Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mile Marker 166, 35x51

 

This piece is available now at the Perlow-Stevens Gallery in Columbia, MO. Please contact the gallery if you are interested in adding this piece to your collection.

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

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Pick of the week, Oct 29

October 29, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. — Willa Cather

 

Mile Marker 308, 35x51

 

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Photograph of the week, Oct 22

October 22, 2012 by Chris | 2 Comments

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
–Hal Borland

Mile Marker 312, 16x22

 

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Photograph of the week, Oct 15

October 15, 2012 by Chris | 0 Comments

“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.
Today is such a day.”
― Rumi

 

Mile Marker 286, 35x51

 

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Plaza Art Fair #13 – Thank you Kansas City!

September 27, 2012 by Chris | 4 Comments

What a welcome home!

 

After 13 years of doing shows around the country, my hometown show, my 13th Plaza Art Fair, provided the best show of my career! It was great to see familiar faces as well as make new friends at the show, so my special thanks to all that came out and made it a fantastic time! It really is all about the people!

 

Here are some of the awesome things about this week that you didn’t get to see:

 

pleeeeease

  • Our street filling up with large vans signaling the arrival of our people!
  • An impromptu and delicious dinner party with a houseful of my favorite artists: Beth Bojarski, Mark Winter, Lynn and John Whipple, Jim Brown, and Gregory Story. (Ask them about the tamales!)
  • Helping Laura Robson orchestrate a surprise visit from Oregon. And despite the fact she hadn’t done a show with all of us in six years, it felt just like old times.
  • Laughs so hard on our car rides to and from the show that my side still hurt the next day!
  • Hosting a fantastic party for the artists after the show with the AMAZING help of our good friends from Pandolfi’s. I never want to host anything without these guys ever again!
  • Sitting back and thinking about the collected talent at the party, and the interesting lives they are leading traveling from all corners of the country (and Canada). A brain trust assembling in our house, overflowing onto the porch, driveway and yard!
  • Dozens of sleep deprived and staggering artists digging through the River Market Antiques the day after the show, and the show and tell that happens afterwards.
  • Card playing on Monday night that is so exuberant the house vibrates with the excitement. (Who knew that dime ante poker could get successful adults so wound up?)
  • Quiet porch conversations that begin to happen as the crowd starts to thin.
  • The energy created by having so many of our best friends gathered in one place to sustain us through the winter season until we all meet up again in Florida in March.
  • My new piece of artwork from Kina Crow that perfectly expresses how I feel when everyone leaves.

Somebody pleeeease come play with me!