Thursday, December 31, 2009

Shadow Giant


All snapshots now going to Merz Pictures site, linkable from this site

'Here's Looking at You, Kid'

Winter Window Display, Cambridge

Winter Window Display, Cambridge # 2

Scruton Pond

Slow Children

Portsmouth Laundromat

Upstream, Off Shore

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Travel Shot

Friday, December 25, 2009

Cambridge Graffiti # 1

Cambridge Graffiti # 1



Christmas Day

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Holiday Shot, New Camera



Avery & Rylan by Tree

Rolls on Rolls Dark



Brother Bill's Response

Monday, December 21, 2009

Toilet Rolls



Photo by Brother Bill, Color Work by Yours Truly

Sunday, December 20, 2009

Relieving the Cypress of Their Burden of Snow

Eight inches of perfect snowman snow, wet
and clumped on everything. Our row,
once tall and erect, now bent to the ground
in prayer, thin spines burdened by snow, branches
encased in its crust. When I grab the tops
of their bowed heads and shake each free
of their outer layer, bringing them down
with my weight then letting go, the trunks sway up
a foot, a foot and a half higher, bodies
like great defunct dinosaurs coming back to life.
Each branch I knock rises up like a fan in the wind;
gradually the whole line climbs back on its feet,
still bent and broken in places but no longer defeated
by the tremendous burden. The taller ones need me
to climb inside their bodies to rattle their bones
like a lover, bending the curve of their spine back far
the other way. The sun’s come out now and soon
the trees will forget this weight. But for now
I am happy, beloved among them, bathed in sweat,
looking for just the right place to release the pressure.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Rocio's Grandfather Up in a Tree, 1929

He was a burning bush of a man,
always bursting in flame, an ancient letter
in a unwritten book on the power of joy
in the face of stultifying catastrophe.
Spain was a rock face crumbling;
all the men had to find new ways
to make themselves useful. Women
were left to re-sing the old laws.
The children whited themselves out
with a brush. No one remembers the man
standing under our man in the tree,
hombre arbol. Some say he never existed,
an angel airbrushing itself into a photo.
The date 1929, the caption blank, the sun
either just coming up or one last time
throwing itself across the horizon line.
Rocio’s grandfather keeps his balance
by fingertipping buds, hat threatening
to fly off—the wind an elixir he drinks
openmouthed and shouting.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Sunday, December 13, 2009

Last Night's Collage



Vandal(ism)

Old Charles Piece


one of his "envelope" cards

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Kenneth Noland, Book Cover


from Melvin Lane's, Black Mountain College: Sprouted Seeds, an Anthology of Personal Accounts

Bathing Beauty

Old Collage Found in Pile of Papers


Columnar Abstraction # 1

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Solo Ascent



for Bill

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Cement Fence off Beach, Mbau, Senegal



Took this photo in 85; this is a contact sheet image, scanned, photoshopped. I took the slide out of its casing, hence the edges

Bill's Boogie Grid



One of Bill Matthews' cards.
Congajoy.com

Ray Type, Collage Back # 1

My Moticos # 1

My Moticos # 2

My Moticos # 3

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Old American Crow Card (Reframed)



Jail Break

Equinox Dreams



An old photograph taken from proof sheet and scanned then Photoshopped. Old VT club back in the late 80s, outside of Manchester

Monday, November 30, 2009

Old-Fashioned


Last night's collage, put over an old Charles Collage

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Blue Mountain Way

Back piece




THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK ART PIECE IN THE WORLD (EVER)!

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Flip Side (Redone)



More saturation, less blur

Flip Side



Fire in the Hole

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

New Piece, Note Sure It's Any Good



Culture Shock

Monday, November 9, 2009

Work in Progress

Greetings from the Edge(s)



This serves as the frontispiece for a many-paneled collage that uses an old postcard book of the Great Smokey Mountains. The cards fold into an accordian, images on both sides, that then nestles inside an envelope. I have been using images from a 50s era nature book and weaving them into the 60s era colorized images of the Smokeys.

"Golf Landscape" (below) is the back of the envelope.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Golf Landscape

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Monday, October 26, 2009

I Know the Whole 50's Thing Has Been Done

But that doesn't mean I can't do my version of it, take my run at the theme, the mode, and see if I can add a twist or give a new spin on the old dance. I am not sure I have. But these old Alps cards from the 50s discovered in someone's old house full of their parents things saved after death work a little magic. The mountains as the container for the drama unfolding. The whole vacation feel of the resort areas allows the 50s characters, taken from old Life magazines of the era, room to act a little. They are meant as advertisements, so their poses are seductive or charming or curious already. I wanted to tell a little story too. A family facing a divorce but pretending everything is okay. Sounds like the 50s to me. Says the mid-60s end of boomer, not quite Gen-Xer.

Sunday, October 25, 2009

50 Series, # 2



I forget who I gave no. 1 to! Charles? Anyone?