A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of culture
- Lionel Trilling

2.28.2011

"This is a picture of Edward Pitcurn Mack painted for Charles S Mack by their mother and presented by Charles to his son Edward Ely, also named by the painter for the child here portrayed.
Ann Arbor, May 18th, 1845"

2.18.2011

2.15.2011








Roman Signer's Ice Fall

2.14.2011

Kinderhook Creek, NY

2.11.2011

the colorado river where it meets lake mead

2.10.2011

2.08.2011

2.07.2011


2.04.2011

2.03.2011

1.31.2011

"sangre de murcielago", havana, cuba

1.27.2011


1.26.2011

1.25.2011

1.23.2011

1.22.2011

1.21.2011

1.20.2011

1.19.2011

1.18.2011

Gnomes, by Rien Poortvliet & Wil Huygen
This book used to excite me and also scare the shit out of me.

1.17.2011

Essaouira, Morocco

1.15.2011

1.14.2011


1.13.2011


1.11.2011

1.10.2011


1.08.2011

The Hoover Dam

1.06.2011

A piece of old broken glass found in Eddy Brook, near Hophornbeam Hill, Vermont, 2009

1.05.2011

This was at a roadside motel in Nebraska in the dead of winter.

1.04.2011

Fishing shack near Hue, Vietnam

1.03.2011

I guess it makes sense that he only made a few of these but I still wish there were more.

12.31.2010


12.29.2010

An abandoned corral

12.27.2010

A cabin in Brewery Gulch in Bisbee, AZ

12.26.2010

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.

12.25.2010

12.21.2010

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.

12.20.2010

12.16.2010

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