“Illuminate” Art Show Opening
“Without light, darkness projects an infinite wilderness void of life.”
“Without light, darkness projects an infinite wilderness void of life.”
“There is nothing more economically valuable than teaching people how to articulate and communicate.” Jordan Peterson
…it brought peer recognition but more importantly, it set in motion that insatiable desire to draw my soul.
Local Art Galleries Then: And Now Traditional art galleries, a 19th century invention, continue to operate. Dying retail footprints first shrink the brick and mortar platform. And second; join the Meta universe, the 24/7 digital marketplace reaching an ever larger audience. The Pandemic accelerated the learning curve on mastering the type of technology needed to…
Art-Centric and Poetic One of the first people I spoke to about my idea and vision of hosting “art-centric” events was poet Shawnte Orion. We posed in a “make-shift” shadowbox for this photo. I think it is a photo by Jia Oak Baker. Now a couple of years later, we are working on the spoken-word…
“There is a sense of sacredness and security seeing the light illuminating the dark.”
The ethos of the desert is present in my work.
A disappearing retail category: art galleries The role of travel agents continues to disappear, replaced by apps and algorithms to book a hotel, rent a car and buy tickets to a show. Video stores, bookstores, camera shops, the brick and mortar versions have vanished, displaced by technology. Art galleries, cultural and art museums continue to…
A totem is a symbol for a sacred object.
An elegant design adapted for desert life. Sharp and spikey for protection, with a smooth and tough skin to capture what is rare in the desert: Moisture. It lives as it was designed. In a way, I am casting the “inner” life of an Agave, its invisible nature full of life and light. The Agave…
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