back in the publishing world

It's been ages, but I have a few new titles. If you haven't read A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, I suggest you do so now.

This should be in the MOMA

Portrait: Clark Richard Nelson

 a few portraits of my dear old friend, the artist Clark Richard Nelson.  September 2012

Fortress to Solitude

It's been quite a month.  I moved recently to a wonderful new space and now I have internet again!  I can get back to my study of cats in boxes, flying lawnmowers and share this exciting bit of news with you: I am a part of the inaugural print offering and show of a new online artists platform, Fortress to Solitude.

"Founded by an active New York-based curator, who is also an artist, Fortress to Solitude is constantly seeking involvement and intellectual contributions from a thriving community of young international art curators. We believe that in building meaningful relationships between curators and artists we can not only offer astounding artworks, but also promote an equitable environment within the art world."

Updated website

I made some photographs in upstate New York and Connecticut recently and realized they are part of the work I started in Connecticut in 2010, continued in Europe last year and now am back in Connecticut. Sometimes it takes a while to see the threads that connect the dots. Today I updated my website to reflect the larger scope of the project.

Newburgh, NY

Newburgh, NY

Fairfield, CT

Sunlight

I purchased a marvelous new camera recently.  It can shoot movies.  I wish I could show you where I was today, but it is for a book project to be published later this year.  Headed to Maine tomorrow.

TONIGHT

Come check out my installation LADIES WE LOVE at Annabelle at 105 Stanton Street in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Annabelle is the boutique of designer Anna McCraney and a friend of mine. The installation will be up for several months so if you can't come by tonight, stop by another day. You can't miss it.

Kaleidoscope of girls

I made these for the Fortmakers project. Click on them to see them larger, please.

Fortmakers

I had the good fortune recently to meet the good people of Fortmakers and we are working on their lookbook for their Fall 2012 collection. Their clothes are beautiful and filled with energy and life, it buzzes right out of their fingertips. Fortmakers is a company where art and commerce have somehow found a way to live together in an authentic way, which I believe is rare. Totally cosmic. This picture is kind of an outtake.

Working Life: Abbie Zuidema

I was honored last month to photograph an old friend from RISD for the Working Life project, Abbie Zuidema, a very talented painter.

Costa Verde

I was honored to be in the company of such talented artists at the Costa Verde International School benefit auction last night at 401 projects. This is the second time I have participated in this event and it was a beautiful show....and a great party.

Working Life: Erika Dahlen

Another artist I had the great fortune to get to know at Obras in Evoramonte, Portugal is Erika Dahlen. She is an artist from Stockholm, Sweden and was joined at Obras by Henrik Sjöberg and their two beautiful sons. Erika works in several mediums, making installations and multi-media works but I was initially blown away by her paintings. They are quiet and focused but her work is about big issues.

I have discovered again, and again and again, that even though I went to these residencies to focus on my work and pull what is in my head out into the world through my images, that I end up learning so much more from the people around me. If you pay attention, you can see the world rushing up to meet you like waves at the beach.

This is Erika in her studio at Obras in May 2011.

Working Life: Annemie Bogaerts

I am incredibly fortunate to have been at Obras in Portugal at the same time as Annemie Bogaerts. She is a Dutch artist who makes incredible installations and graphic works. She changed the way I feel about installation based work. I photographed her for my ongoing project about work, called Working Life.

This is Annemie working on an installation at Obras in Evoramonte, Portugal in May 2011.

Lovers bikes/Ils ont laissé leurs vélos ici

Locks of Love, part deux

These guys look right on trend for Pride Week. I don't think it is Pride Week here in Paris, but I am still pretty proud of good 'ol New York for taking another leap forward for civil rights. This is in the Musee CarnavaletAlso the Carnavalet, a museum dedicated to the history of ParisBill touring me around, looking for birds to put on thingsThere are millions more locks of love than I remember from when I last visited Paris, and they mostly seemed from this year, which means the city must come and remove them so new lovers can make their mark. Is there a giant bin full of cut love-filled locks somewhere in Paris? Are there tough guy fish who wear necklaces made of keys in the Seine? I swam in the Seine over the weekend, but a long way from Paris, don't worry. It was wonderful.I especially like this heart lock.

Rosetta Stone

Sometimes the pictures are so ridiculous in Rosetta Stone it makes it hard to concentrate.

The church in Marnay sur Seine

No one uses this church anymore. No Sunday mass, just the occasional wedding or christening. To go in you must ask for the skeleton key from the barkeeper next door, which he is happy to give. It was originally built in the 1150s and was kept by monks who lived in what is now Camac, where I am staying. Does that make me a nun?

Not really because my bedroom is in a building built 800 years later in the 1950s to house guests of Frank Tenot and Daniel Filipacchi who used the place to record their famous radio show Salut les copains. Then they started this little publishing side project, you may have heard of it. So I like to think Count Basie or Petula Clark slept in my room. Anyway, there is this beautiful church across the street from me that is much much older than the good 'ol USA.
There are several different sets of numberings on the pews.This amazing fresco work only remains inside one arch. It looks ancient, I would imagine middle ages.I am obsessed with renderings of fierce beasts drawn only from imagination.

une journée à Paris

Spring in Paris. The Arc de TriompheA sudden downpour on the Champs-Élyséesbut the sun always comes out againdown into the belly of the whaleand back up to the surface in the Grand PalaisMy focus remains clear at all timesand then back to the country side with the lovely Emilie