Mt Si. 7/28/12

Words on the street. 5/11/12

Victoria, British Columbia 5/6/12

D.N.R., Renton, WA, 4/13/12

The Evolution of Artificial Light.

"To reach the farthest chamber of Lascaux, it's likely a man had to snuff out his light, lower himself down a shaft with a rope made of twisted fibers, and then rekindle his lamp in the dark so as to draw the wooly rhinoceros, the half horse, and the raging bison there. A long spear transfixes that bison, and entrails pour from it's side. Beneath its front hooves lie the one painted man in all of Lascaux: prone, spindly, wounded, disguised behind a bird mask. And below him, until its discovery in 1960, lay a spoon-shaped lamp carved of red sandstone...Hold it again as it once was held, and the animals will emerge out of darkness as you pass. Nothing stays still. Shadows nestle in the cavities: a flicker of light across pale protruding rock turns a hoof or raises a head. One shape recedes as another emerges, and everything lingers in the imagination.

Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light. Jane Brox. 2010.

02/25/12

....My disappointment was alleviated when she thanked me ever so slightly for showing her "another world ". We talked then about how we think of ourselves as Americans but there are many worlds in the United States if you stray very far from freeways and stay away from television.

True North, Jim Harrison. 2004.

Twin Peaks

Watching David Lynch's more than twenty year old T.V. series Twin Peaks for the first time got me looking at some images from some recent trips in a new light. Maybe it's the comforting and familiar nature of certain objects and scenes that let's us let them transcend into being truly alarming and frightening.