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88° 3′ W x 41° 39′ N no. 27

It often takes me a long time to get to the point where I feel like sharing the images from an installation….

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Posted on April 17, 2024 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

88° 55′ W x 41° 19′ N no. 54

On the site of a former coal strip-mine in Illinois sits a monumental earthwork by Michael Heizer, Effigy Tumuli. I have conflicting…

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Posted on July 13, 2023 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

104° 50’ W x 41° 3’ N no. 58

The materials for these objects hung around my studio for a long time (maybe a few years?), just waiting to signal what…

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Posted on May 10, 2023 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

WYNMWA

As an artist living outside of a big city and major art center, you work and work and put yourself out there…

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Posted on April 18, 2023 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

104° 29’ W x 41° 14’ N no. 23

I was recently invited to participate in an exhibit at the Loveland Museum, entitled Artists Visage Artists, and was charged with creating…

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Posted on October 9, 2022 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

104° 58′ W x 40° 54′ N no. 23

A crystal-clear early winter day provided a joyous respite from the autumn skies filled with orange smoke from western wildfires.

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Posted on February 25, 2022 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

105° 14’ W x 40° 31’ N no. 44

When I read the email stating that art critic and author Eleanor Heartney chose this installation image to be included in Ecoconsciousness, “WOW!” and…

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Posted on October 4, 2020 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

Here and Gone (on exhibit)

It’s pretty exciting as a visual artist to see one’s name in vinyl print on a wall – especially when it is…

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Posted on February 7, 2020 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

105° 14’ W x 40° 31’ N no. 98

More than a year in the making, the objects in this installation were in need of the right place. When I create…

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Posted on January 7, 2020 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos

94° 12′ W x 36° 22′ N no. 24

Sometimes when I have traveled away from my home on the plains I find myself working in a forest. Such lush and…

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Posted on November 22, 2019 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos
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