An obscure anniversary came and went last month, and I did not realize it until some days after. Seventeen years. A fateful decision, a dazzling mix of excitement and fear, happiness and guilt, wonder and relief and anxiety. I expected to start a new life. I did not expect to become a new person. Nothing [...]
A continuation of The Examined Life (Part I)… ~~~ Shortly before writing this second installment, I had a chance to listen to Dr. James Orbinski talk about his humanitarian work, and particularly his work in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. It was gut-wrenching and offered a vivid reminder of how privileged we are to even [...]
If there is a right, just and moral way to live, work and interact with the world, it is inevitable to ask why it cannot easily be articulated and agreed upon by all and why practically every formal doctrine attempting to do so becomes rife with paradoxes and contradictions. There’s no doubt that a discussion [...]
I’m actively working on a number of themes these days. Some involve specific subject matter, others result from a fascination with specific locations, such as the desolate Awapa Plateau, and some that at this time can only be described as “abstract concepts.” I was surprised, however, when a friend recently asked how my Awapa project [...]
It’s raining this morning. As the sun slowly rises I can see the bright yellow aspen groves on the flanks of Thousand Lake Mountain from my window. Soon the first light of the day will touch the crest of the red cliffs, then slowly make its way down in a beautiful display that had by [...]
Few things have the power to lure me away from my beloved home at the feet of Utah’s majestic Aquarius Plateau; but the chance to spend a couple of days hiking the canyons with my good friend Steve is one I rarely pass up. Despite the searing August heat, I packed up the truck and [...]
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.” –Walt Whitman Like many of you, I follow the unfolding saga of the Global Economy with great concern and no small amount of utter [...]
There is no telling what secrets and revelations may haunt in these lonesome wee hours of the night. I spent four days on empty roads, walked in untrammeled alpine meadows and slept among the verdant aspen groves on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains before returning home to my beloved high desert. It’s always hard [...]
It started like any other summer Friday in Torrey. Right around 5pm a peaceful silence falls over the town and the work week is almost palpably over. Despite the sparse traffic, on days like this I like to stay at the gallery a bit further into the evening, not so much for the sales potential [...]
This place haunted me from the day I first visited, and maybe even prior to that. I’m not a superstitious man, yet I must confess there’s something here that touches me deeply; something in the shards of pottery, the withered husks and cobs of maize strewn about, the fingerprints in the ancient clay, and the [...]
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