This book was published in 1903 as a resource guide for water designs that could be used by craftsmen. The artist, Mori Yuzan, worked in the Nihonga style, which emphasized the beauty of traditional Japanese aesthetics during a period of infatuation with the west. I am infatuated with Hamonshū! I've shot thousands of photographs of waves … Continue reading Hamonshū
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Bass Biology
I lost sight of this blog, buried in a big project and a flurry of exhibits. More later on "Scenic Overlook" and other exhibits, but this summer has been completely turned over to a large commission for the new Bass Biology Building at Stanford. High resolution photographs of ocean waves – color reversed and knitted … Continue reading Bass Biology
diatoms
I recently finished reading The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf. It's one of the best books I've read in the past few years, along with Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction. Both of these books are about the big picture, about deep time and the interrelatedness of all things, living and non-living. The Invention of Nature is … Continue reading diatoms
free ride
https://vimeo.com/247895416 Here are two more nudibranchs from Salt Point. The video shows (I think) a Cockerell's Dorid. It's right at the water line, and is hitching a free ride on a limpet. Or maybe trying to eat it? By the end of the video, you can see its foot and the rhinophores, yellow-tipped and feathery, … Continue reading free ride
nudibranchs
I've started a new work that has me, happily, back to shooting video in the tide pools at Salt Point. It means catching the tides and the weather at the right hour, on days when I'm in the area – a rare mix. Friday was a perfect day, and I was trying out a new … Continue reading nudibranchs
Cerulean Blues
June and July and nearly August... As I listed these months, counting the time since my last post, a cover of "Fly Like an Eagle" by Tony Crown started playing in the background. It was a slow ghostly version of the old Steve Miller Band song, never heard this version before. Perfect synchronicity. Time keeps … Continue reading Cerulean Blues
swimmy Pool video
Thanks to David Stroud for shooting this video of Pool at Hosfelt Gallery. It's the most beautifully sunny gallery in all of San Francisco, so the video is a little pale. There's a Nam June Paik piece across the room that's an aquarium in an old wooden CRT television case, critters built out of vacuum … Continue reading swimmy Pool video
Pool
Pool is finally up at Hosfelt Gallery. Well... it's been up for two weeks, but I'm just getting around to posting some photos. So here's how it works: Pool was shot in the tide pools of Salt Point from late January through April of this year. The video is projected onto the floor, passing through … Continue reading Pool
Copepodilia’s virtual debut
I've just heard from Julia Krolik that our conversation about Copepodilia is now online: Julia is one of the curators of the blog Art the Science, from a fascinating Canadian organization of the same name. Lots of great art to be found there; I'm honored to be included. I mentioned these prints in an earlier … Continue reading Copepodilia’s virtual debut
zeroes on the loose
I had a great meeting with Iain Boal yesterday, working on a book project with Iain and Ren Weschler. Iain shared this beautiful poem by Wisława Szymborska. Possibilities I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself liking people to myself loving mankind. … Continue reading zeroes on the loose
