Due to the pandemic, new shooting for my “Floating World” cruise ship project has been stalled, but that will change soon. I’ve used the hiatus to reconsider the work in light of my experience at last year’s Fotofest in Houston, Texas, selecting more images to finish and planning my approach for several cruises this fall. Cruise industry news suggests passengers will find the post-pandemic ship environment quite different, and I’m eager to explore their reactions to these changes within my ongoing themes of desire, fantasy and irony.
I’ve also resumed my long-standing courtship of landscape photography, extending Floating World’s ideas to examine the increasing restrictions on access to the natural environment we crave. Here in the Rocky Mountains, overuse, property development, and the increased wildfire, flooding, avalanches and mudslides brought by climate change are raising barriers. I hope to have something to show in a few months, but you know how “art” goes.
Getting the work out there…
In November, I was invited to show my portfolio at the Griffin Museum’s Zoom “Photo Chat.”
In October-November last year, I was interviewed as the featured artist in F-STOP Magazine’s “Documentary 2020” edition.
Yellow Slide, 2019
“Yellow Slide, 2019” was invited to the annual Colorado Photographic Arts Center’s annual members show, July 1- August 7, 2021. Aline Smithson was juror.
I’ve recently learned that I’m among seven artists selected to show a set of prints at the Fitchburg (MA) Art Museum from February 12 to June 5, 2022, as an adjunct to a major retrospective of Frank Armstrong’s work. He’s a long-time artist and educator, currently teaching at Clark University in Worcester, and I studied under him in the early 1970s.