The tides have been perfect during this first week of the year: perigee lows during the afternoon's oblique sun, warmish down by the water, not too windy. The water is COLD though, and I've managed to get thoroughly soaked every day. Worth it. So amazing. Here is a stunning creature from January 1, 2019. I … Continue reading alien planet
art
Hamonshū
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
Scenic Overlook
Back in May, I had an exhibit at Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. A few of the projects already discussed here were part of the exhibit: The Fix, Copepodilia, Pacific Falls, and Collision. I also showed three new selections from a series of videos called "In the Time of..." which were inspired by Pool. The works were … Continue reading Scenic Overlook
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
washed out
this washed out of the woods last week:
