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105° 8′ W x 40° 37′ N no. 6

There’s not enough water out here in the arid West. Then there’s too much water. Submerged.

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Posted on January 19, 2019 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

110° 6′ W x 43° 45′ N no. 10

Floating.

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Posted on October 11, 2018 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

Amarillo Ramp (snapshot)

On the mid-September road trip I took with my daughter, Michaela, we visited Robert Smithson’s Amarillo Ramp. Like many remote land art installations,…

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Posted on October 4, 2018 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

110° 43′ W x 43° 30′ N no. 9

The objects I created in this ephemeral installation reflect the weathered bones scattered about and the rusting metal implements left abandoned on…

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Posted on July 24, 2018 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

123° 39′ W x 39° 9′ N no. 8

Sometimes we find ourselves in a dark place. Deep forests, even though there’s beauty to be found in the shadows, disorient me….

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Posted on May 10, 2018 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

123° 43′ W x 39° 7′ N no. 4

Signs of civilization are everywhere, repeating themselves throughout the land. You see the same utility poles on the California coast that you see on the…

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Posted on April 19, 2017 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

Eyebrows (thoughts)

Artists* = eyebrows. They don’t appear to be essential to life, maybe even superfluous, right? Wrong. Going through chemo, my eyebrows got really thin,…

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Posted on January 13, 2017 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

Time travel (thoughts)

My earliest memory of traveling through time was when I was 7 or 8 years old. My mom, Lana, and I visited a…

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Posted on September 22, 2016 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

SFMOMA (snapshot)

While on the recent road trip, I was fortunate to spend a day and a half at the San Francisco Museum of Modern…

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Posted on September 9, 2016 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

Artifacts pt. 4 (thoughts)

KU offered the perfect major for me – I could earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art History through the School…

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Posted on May 13, 2016 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos
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