found in the Eatonville Memorial Gardens

Marked, Unmarked (found object) 2015

echo

ricochet

Instead of thinking of my pieces as landing on a specific meaning, or meanings, I think they should ricochet off of ideas, signifiers, and affects - never landing in one place but creating a constellation of connotations.

an object found in a dumpster during roof-work, Winter Park, FL

[then the minutes on the clock went by like seconds]
[the the minutes minutes went wet by by like like seconds seconds]
[‡the‡minutes‡went‡by‡like‡seconds‡]

To find your way among the stars, choose some familiar pattern
as a starting point and gradually work your way from one star
group to another.
Menzel, Donald H.  A Field Guide to the Stars and Planets.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. 104.

Polaroids: Paradise, MT

In 2006 I took a trip across the country (from Illinois to Eastern Washington state) with my friend Brian to live for a few months in Richland, Washington. On the way we stopped, per my request, in Paradise, Montana.

5/30/06, Paradise, MT

many great waters fell from heaven

Albrecht Dürer - Dream Vision (Apocalyptic Dream) (watercolor on paper) 1525

"In 1525, during the night between Wednesday and Thursday after Whitsuntide, I had this vision in my sleep, and saw how many great waters fell from heaven. The first struck the ground about four miles away from me with such a terrible force, enormous noise and splashing that it drowned the entire countryside. I was so greatly shocked at this that I awoke before the cloudburst. And the ensuing downpour was huge. Some of the waters fell some distance away and some close by. And they came from such a height that they seemed to fall at an equally slow pace. But the very first water that hit the ground so suddenly had fallen at such velocity, and was accompanied by wind and roaring so frightening, that when I awoke my whole body trembled and I could not recover for a long time. When I arose in the morning, I painted the above as I had seen it. May the Lord turn all things to the best."

Polaroids: two churches

4/21/05 - St. Louis, near CAMSL 

5/7/07, 6:50pm - Night Chapel on Livingston County Rd. 2250 N near 700 E

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The first church is probably still there, as is proven by Google Street View in September 2014. 

This church, created by Theodore C. Link and originally named the Garrison Avenue Baptist Church, was used for an installation, titled Chorus, by Sebastian Hungerer and Rainer Kehres for the Pulitzer Foundation's project "The Light Project."

The "Nigh Church" that I found on a rural road outside of Pontiac, Illinois, (technically Amity Township) did not faired as well. The screen-captures below are from Google Street View, circa September 2009 - two years after my photographs.

The graveyard looks to be in good shape, but the church has collapsed and all that remains is ruble, the roof, and some make-shift barriers that someone set up. Graveyards.com has the site listed as "Nigh Chapel Cemetery" (AKA Scattering Point Cemetery) and it evidently has a one Civil War and two Spanish-American War vets buried there. It is located at 40.952533, -88.781180. And on Google Earth the chapel is completely gone.

three poems from my visit to Lowe's (Irving, TX)

Olympic (C55a/C55b)

Subtle Blue
Adrift
Hide-and-Seek

Granite Falls
Brigade
Shimmering Sea

*****

Olympic (D56a/D56b/D57a/D57b)

April Sky
Lunar Eclipse
Smoke Screen

Feldspar
Lava Gray
Midnight Hour

Winter’s Day
Going Gray
Gray Frost

Steeple Gray
Volcanic Ash
Black Forest

*****

Valspar (4008-1/4008-2/4008-3)

Bay Waves
Polished Silver
Stone Mason Gray

City Storm
Almost Charcoal
Muted Ebony

Rising Tide
Lighthouse Shadows
Silver Fox

Polaroid: Boil Order

ca. 2004-2005, Braceville, IL

Next Year

Next Year (pencil on wall) 2014

A new piece, to be executed anew each year, that consists of the hurricane names for the Atlantic Ocean. This is the 2014 version of the piece.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutnames.shtml