An abandoned corral

A cabin in Brewery Gulch in Bisbee, AZ

This is a tiny sliver of space shaped like a splinter in Bisbee, AZ.  It was capped with a door with a lock on it but it led to nowhere.

On the Winter Solstice, the Saami, indigenous people of Finland, Sweden and Norway, worship Beiwe, the sun-goddess of fertility and sanity. She travels through the sky in a structure made of reindeer bones with her daughter, Beiwe-Neia, to herald back the greenery on which the reindeer feed. On the winter solstice, her worshipers sacrifice white female animals, and thread the meat onto sticks which they bend into rings and tie with bright ribbons. They also cover their doorposts with butter so Beiwe can eat it and begin her journey once again.

Bas Jan Ader's falls.  I just can't get these out of my head.

My brother, about to attach the string to the inside of the construction site.

Cabin #3, 2010, watercolor on paper

Underground commerce in Cuba.  A residential windowfront that had been turned into a store selling flour, gasoline, and tomatoes.

345 gomez road, jupiter island, fla

I took this in the fish market in Tarifa, Spain.  This girl must be thirteen years old now.  

Spontaneous combustion is a type of combustion which occurs without an external ignition source. It is usually a slow process that can take several hours of decomposition/oxidation with heat building up to a point of ignition.

Cabin #2, watercolor on paper, 2010

November Adirondack Hunt- Photo by Mark Winkleman

Roomate

Aquaintence

Assistant

Business partner

Roomate

Brother’s girlfriend

Brother

Best friend

Husband

Boyfriend

Best friend

Love interest

Mother

Neighbor

Sister

Repeat

"this is called venison"

Arch & Pillar, watercolor on paper, 2010

Anchor Blocks
The first building block set made of wood was developed in 1840 by Friedrich Froebel. The blocks were not very well made and often collapsed because of manufacturing flaws. In 1875 the brothers Otto and Gustav Lilienthal developed a method of manufacturing precisely shaped building blocks using quartz sand, powdered chalk and linseed oil, as an alternative to the rather unstable wooden blocks.  More here..

Barrier #2, 2010, watercolor on paper

Condle-making season is upon us!

Barrier #1, watercolor on paper

The room I slept in in Rokeby Mansion on the Hudson River.

mexico city 2004. severe tequila hangover 

165 Kemble St., Lenox, Massachusetts
All properties that abutt this mansion/resort have free unlimited access to the resort. The surrounding properties therefore act as a kind of fence.

An underground passageway that goes from 225 W. 14th street to 15th St. 
Thanks Beverly

176 Clifton Place to Lafayette Gardens
photos: Adnan Lotia

"In October he backed his ox into his cart
and he and his family filled it up
with everything they made or grew all year long
that was left over.

He packed candles the family made.
He packed linen made from the flax they grew.
He packed shingles he split himself.
He packed birch brooms that his son carved
with a borrowed kitchen knife.

And he walked at his ox's head ten days
until he came to Portsmouth
and Portsmouth Market.

He sold birch brooms.
He sold candles and shingles.

He sold his ox cart.

Then he sold his ox, and kissed him goodbye on his nose."



Ox-Cart Man, Donald Hall

8:00 this morning.  This project is finished.  Thank you to Adnan, Lindsay, Ely, Nina, Jack, Blue, Adam and Ryan.
Photo: Adnan Lotia

Found another piece my sister made 

Barn #1, gouache and watercolor on paper

A still frame from Essex, 2 minute digital video
photo: Georgia Elrod

Attaching the zipline through the church yard on the other side of the block. Thanks to Linsday Minnich  

My sister made this years and years ago.  I've always loved it.

Giambattista Nolli's Map of Rome, 1748  
"In Nolli's map the outdoor civic space is a positive void and is more figural than the solids that define it.  Space is conceived as a positive entity in an integrated relationship with the surrounding solids.  This is the opposite of the modern concept of space, where buildings are figural, freestanding objects, and space is an uncontained void.  In Nolli, the void is figural." Finding Lost Space, Roger Trancik

Beginning of camera zipline on 10/6/10.  Hopefully by tomorrow it will splice through the entire block, from Clifton Place to Lafayette Ave.

Installing a camera zipline. Thanks E, L, B &R.

Lincoln Logs were invented in 1916 by John Lloyd Wright, a brother of Frank Lloyd Wright.  One of his middle names was Lincoln, thus the name Lincoln Logs.
Two Notched Logs #1, watercolor on paper