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Fallow (thoughts)

Fallow fields around my rural town always captured my attention as a kid, and I remember asking my dad why some fields…

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Posted on February 12, 2021 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

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

107° 21′ W x 41° 58′ N no. 54

Stunning colors as the sun hovers on the horizon are the manifestation of fires blazing across the West, burning drought-ridden vegetation and…

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Posted on March 15, 2018 by artinthemiddleofnowhere in Photos
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