Five Photographs of Mountains and One of Water (Eventually)

Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel

Mt. Rundle from the Trans Canada Highway (my new favorite mountain)

View from Sulphur Mountain, Banff National Park

View of Banff from Sulphur Mountain (now I understand what Albert Bierstadt was thinking when painting his seemingly unrealistic landscapes of the American West).

 Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise Parking Lot

Columbia Icefield, Jasper National Park

Where the Mountains Meet the Sea: The Sea (2013)

 Elger Esser, Undine

Becky Comber, fog to cloud, 2012

Robert Adams, Nehalem Spit, Tillamook County, Oregon

Phil Chang, Sea #1, 2011 (an unfixed photograph that gradually changes when exposed to light)

Luigi Ghirri, Amsterdam, 1981

John Gossage, The Auckland Project, 2011

Robert Adams, Benson Beach, Oregon

Elijah Gowin, From Of Falling and Floating, 2006

Richard Misrach, Untitled #586-04, 2004

Asako Narahashi, Jounanjima #3, 2002

Where the Mountains Meet the Sea: Mountains (2013)

Summer is the time for sequels. I am from the mountains where the water runs clear. My adopted home is by the sea. One of these days we both shall meet again. Meanwhile, I collect images of high elevation and open bodies of water to make me feel closer to what is so far away. Here is this year's installment of Where the Mountains Meet the Sea.

Becky Comber, the miraculous relaxing ladies, 2012 [I adore Becky's collages - expect more in the future.]

Michael Naijar, From the series High Altitude, 2008-2010

Olivo Barbieri, Dolomites Project, 2010

Clint Baclawski, From the series Shangri La

Gabriele Beveridge, Untitled Mountain, 2011

Guy Laramee, Prajna Paramita Carved Artist Book, 2011

Gwynne Johnson, From the Doubtful Paradise

Jeffrey Deitch's Mountain Sofas by Gaetano Pesce

Letha Wilson, Hug, Grand Tetons, 2011

Nicolas Faure, From Switzerland on the Rocks

Peter Happel Christian, Sunset on Mt. Everest According to Google Earth

I Haven't Expressed Studio Envy in Awhile

TateShots: Ed Ruscha 

Text is "almost like elevator music."

"Mountain tops suggest glory or beauty... they almost ..have their own orchestration." They reference something that is "not making any noise at all."

A couple highlights in a short documentary film full of quotes I could repeat here (but instead, press PLAY).

More Mountains

Because it's that time of year when all I can do is post other people's art because I have no time to make my own AND mountains represent escape (and home and and and).


Beth Hoeckel, Cream


James Luckett, Kamakura Mountain, 2011


Lucia Ganieva, Dreaming Walls


Jeff McLane, From New Promise Land


Jeff McLane, From New Promise Land


Sherwin Tibayan, Best General View


Deborah Hamon, From North


Clay Lipsky, Between Here and Nowhere


Henri Cartier-Bresson, Werdgasschen, Zurich, 1966


Matthew Rose, Alone, 2009


Sonja Braas, Forces #32, 2003

Random Photos from NY

The Statue of Liberty at sunrise:



A globe (!) in the motel room (and a thermostat):



How not to advertise your hot tub business:



More (badly constructed) fake food:



Bento bowls in Chelsea:



The High Line! The awesome elevated park in Chelsea. It was the one thing I wanted to see in NYC this time around and despite the lack of better photos (limited light at sunset), it was truly impressive.



A billboard selling mountainous landscapes from the High Line:



Until next time NY....

Home Sweet Home at the Rummage Sale

Where the Mountains Meet the Sea: Part 3 - The Sea

Hannah Höch, Album, c. 1933

From James Hamilton-Paterson's essay in Sea Change: "... in the early 18th century, medical theory had begun advocating sea bathing as a cure for melancholy. The shock of cold water was held to be invigorating in itself, but it was also believed that the sea contained a strengthening ingredient. Travellers had noticed that sailors and beach-dwellers tended to be very hardy. In Britain, at any rate, this observation contained an anxiety about class. The more thoughtful of the urban aristocracy and social élites worried about their physical state, which was generally interbred, under-exercised and overfed. Effete and full of "spleen" (which today might be diagnosed as chronic boredom), they foresaw that they might eventually become marginalised and die out, pushed aside by sheer peasant fecundity. Suddenly, it seemed, a way towards vigorous good health might lie in immersing their bodies in the waves and doing mild battle with the elements. Various medical regimes soon established themselves, many becoming very popular and associated with coastal towns which by the end of the century had duly turned into resorts. It was this touting of the medicinal virtues of seawater that led to the invention of the beach, which up until then had merely been the shore."


Robert Adams, Southwest from the South Jetty, Clatsop County, Oregon, 1990


Hiroshi Yamazaki, The Sun is Longing for the Sea 3, 1978


Lynn Davis, Evening Northumberland Strait #VIII, 1993


Liz Deschenes, Color Study #13, 1994-95


Susan Derges, Ocean Taw, 1997


Asako Narahashi, Kawaguchicko, 2003