Inspirations

I am a collector of images and ideas.

Artists

The list is long, longer each day I discover someone else making incredible work. I linger on all of them. Here are six from a list of thousands.

Nature

I have to be in nature to be healthy. Sometimes I stand in shock and awe because of the beauty and mystery. I might have to buy more photo storage for the thousands of photos I have of these miracles.

Books

I read all and everything—Science, Mystery, SciFi, History, Maps, Essays, you name it I want to read it. These six are from my list of thousands that stuck with me after reading.

Cracks

I walk every day the weather allows it. Cracks in the sidewalks, cracks in the streets, cracks on walls speak the language of transformation. Here are six, some don’t show up unless it rains.

Things on roofs

A lot of my art is about communication, how it happens and when it doesn’t. These images remind me of how many ways we reach to the sky to capture the stories floating by.

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I'm interested in how the earth pushes back

Every time it rains our driveway reveals cracks and crevices. They change over time as the sun dries them so sometimes the cracks are fat and overflowing and other times they are delicate and disappearing.

I have a huge photo library of these cracks. Sidewalk cracks, driveway cracks, parking lot cracks, with subsets of potholes and crevices. They have always intrigued me. They are signs that the things we lay down over the earth are only temporary. Just like us. They erode, corrode, wrinkle and are disrupted by natural forces. A little bit of rain can find the hairline entry, then grow to something larger.

I see these same lines elsewhere in nature.

Recently I started drawing these cracks and noticed that many of them end up with emerging characters. And now I am stitching them. I am interested in what the earth has to say about us. The storms, the waves, the droughts, the cracks all remind me that we are temporary. Just like these driveway cracks, just like that dead tree branch.

This summer I will have the opportunity to listen more closely to what the earth has to say. I have been accepted into the residency program at the Hambidge Center in Georgia. It’s a 600-acre sanctuary for artists, writers and other creative explorers to focus intently on their work. I will be focusing on what the earth has to say. Maybe there are even more cracks to explore.