A Playful Afternoon

A chat with Logan Sachon about money

I had the privilege of photographing Logan Sachon of The Billfold website for The University of Virginia Alumni Magazine last winter.  We got to talking and she asked if she could interview me about working freelance.  Click here to read more about how I blend my photography services, teaching, and art making to make a living.

Morning Meditation

Morning Meditation

Study

Morning Meditation

Morning Meditation

Scree Study

During Christmas holiday 2012, I asked Facebook friends their favorite word. My friends came through with a list of over 50 words. Scree, a new word to me listed by John L. Havekamp, grabbed my attention. The word shifts my mind to a bird screaming, but it's meaning has nothing to do with a screaming bird. My first encounter with the definition of this word was as a child walking around Shenandoah Lake, trying not to slip on the unstable ground.

Scree- an accumulation of loose stones or rocky debris lying on a slope or at the base of a hill or cliff.

Verisimilitude

The appearance of being true or real.

Verisimilitude Study no. 1

Exhibition and Artist Talk

Keep Out

Maryland, 7:57:14PM, Summer 2012, Capitol Limited

Freeway

California, 6:43:46AM, Summer 2012, Southwest Chief

Over the past several years I’ve been riding trains and photographing the landscape. This summer I fulfilled a dream by traveling across the country creating photographs and videos.  Passenger, the first exhibition of the project, is on display at ChromaProjects Art Laboratory in Charlottesville.  It features eleven new images plus a video from my journey.  I will give an artist talk October 17 at 7 p.m. in the Dickinson Theater at Piedmont Virginia Community College.

 My exhibition space at Chroma- what used to be the cooler in the old florist’s shop- is wonderful. Because it’s long and narrow, even a little crowded, it reminds me of the trains that inspired my work. Deborah McLeod is the gallery owner and her husband Rob assists in the operation of the space.  The exhibition is up until October 27.

 

Sketch - Rainy Sunday

 

My exhibit, Passenger, opened Friday night. It was a good time, more on that later. Today, I am cleaning and thinking of thoughtful spaces.