| A lot of my older work is in my art archives. Here’s more recent work, in reverse chronological order. |
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Michigan School for the Blind, Michigan School for the Deaf Buelah, my grandmother, worked at the Michigan School for the Deaf. As a young boy, I tried to imagine what it would be like to live in a world as silent as a photograph. Later, I wondered if the Michigan School for the Blind was invisible to students there. Several decades later, I finally made a diptych showing both institutions. (More ...) |
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Agadir/San Francisco Sand Exchange A simple piece: scoop up a couple of kilograms of sand from a San Francisco beach, fly to Morocco, pour it on a beach, and photograph it. Then do the same thing in the other direction. A simple idea, simpy executed, perhaps too simply on both cases. (More ...) |
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Honey Renders a Precision Instrument Inoperative I took a functioning, obsolete camera and poured honey over it, then photographed the gears, shutter, et cetera. Since honey is transparent, the piece was even less successful than usual. (More ...) |
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Sixty-Four Foil Eyes Another simple premise: photograph sixty-four spherical pieces of stale, Halloween chocolate wrapped in foil imprinted with the image of an eye. Since the resulting photographs weren’t very good, I posterized them in an attempt to hide my lack of technical expertise. (More ...) |
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Retirement Plan (sketch) I probably shouldn’t publish this piece, it just might give some moron an idea for new legislation. (More ...) |
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Seventy-One Charles Shaw Wine Corks When asked if I drink Charles Shaw wine because it only costs $1.99 a bottle, I have a simple answer. Yes. I’ve saved hundreds of corks over the years, although I had no plans for them. I’m glad I did; they’re as easy to photograph as the inoffensive wine is to drink. (More ...) |
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Three Fort Mason Pyramids Just when I thought I was done photographing the parking lots outside my studio, government workers installed asphalt bumps to slow down speeding cars. I don’t know why they did this; I’ve never seen a reckless driver here. Similarly, I don’t know why they painted triangles on them, but I’m grateful that they did. (More ...) |
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Thirteen Hollywood Swimming Pools Hollywood is a grubby, polluted place with unbreathable air and handsome people with teeth even whiter than the cocaine they inhale. Swimming pools add to the glamor; I made thirteen images of them using satellites a safe distance away. (More ...) |
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Thirty-One Corncob Horizons I'm rather inefficient when it comes to harvesting corn from the cob. I photographed the remnants of my meal, which turned out to be a pleasing panorama. (More ...) |
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Sixteen Popcorn Kernels, Popped I’ve been planning on photographing popcorn for years. As usual, turning the idea into images wasn’t of much interest since I knew the photographs would look like puffy, white clouds. And, as usual, the photographs turned out to be unlike anything I’d anticipated. (More ...) |
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Twenty-Nine Madeiran Crosses I photographed the sidewalk when I went to Madeira. It wasn’t a very good reason to travel ten-thousand kilometers, and I don’t recommend that anyone else do so. (More ...) |
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Seventeen Fort Mason, San Francisco, Painted Rails I’ve always admired the old, steel train rails near my studio; they haven't seen a locomotive in decades. I’ve also appreciated the contrast between the steel and the relative ephemeral parking lot lines painted over them. I made forty-one photographs of them, and, after deleting any that were aesthetically pleasing, ended up with seventeen. (More ...) |
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Thirty-Six Modest Shrubberies Observed About Decker Island Decker Island is full of modest shrubberies. I photographed thirty-six of the tedious plants, and then experienced a severe lapse in judgment. After almost twenty years of resisting the tawdry siren call of gimmicky computer filters, I finally decided to use the insipid gimmicks. And so, instead of thirty-six bland photographs, I have thirty-six tarted-up bland photographs. (More ...) |
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Fourteen Oklahoma Highway Intersections Fourteen aerial views of Oklahoma highway intersections, posterized to distinct shades of grey, and presented inside fourteen golden rectangles. As boring as Oklahoma itself. (More ...) |
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Eighteen Coupled Black Beans (with Stains) I love black beans, so I decided to photograph their inky stains. The beans themselves were so attractive, though, that I decided to leave them in the final images, even though that resulted in photographs that were somewhat less boring than usual. (More ...) |
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Nine Pieces of Studio China The dictionary and my mother define china as, “a fine white or translucent vitrified ceramic material.” None of the “made in China” objects in my studio fit that description, not even the cheap soup bowl. My mother has her china; I prefer mine. (More ...) |
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Twenty-Three Cinematic Yosemite Panoramas I told my computer to enlarge some Yosemite photographs I had 22,500 times. My computer dutifully gave me some curious images. It’s pointless to look at these on the Internet since the subtle banding generated by working on a thirty-two bit image is lost, but the Internet is nothing if not a waste of time. (More ...) |
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Twenty-One Fort Mason, San Francisco, Parking Lines I remain fascinated with the new parking lot outside my studio; I never imagined painted parking lines could be so intriguing. (More ...) |
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Twenty-Two Commercial Paint Formulæ Mise en Scènes I selected the titles of sixty-six Kelly-Moore brand paints, added their hexadecimal and cmyk color formulæ, then arranged them in twenty-two triptychs. (More ...) |
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Two Sketched and Two Painted Arrows Arrows sketched and painted by paving contractors look even better than the idea sounds. (More ...) |
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Ten Pineapple Rings on Maui A can of Dole pineapple rings contains ten perfectly-machined (no other word will do) pineapple slices. Hence the ten photographs of same. I love it when the subject defines the piece. (More ...) |
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Eight Frequent Colors Eight Frequent Colors may, in fact, be six or seven colors, depending on whether black and/or white are colors. I know next to nothing about color theory, but then a chromophobe wouldn’t, would he? (More ...) |
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Eleven Chilean Circles Eleven photos of circles I found in Chile. I don’t like them very much; they look like photographs that are supposed to look like good photographs, which makes them not very good photographs. (More ...) |
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Nine Santiago Apartment Blocks Nine unremarkable buildings with two overlays of distorted maps of Chile. (More ...) |
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Eight Japanese Views, Thrice Removed I never tire of looking into a dear friend’s eyes. And so, I made several photographs of one of them; now I can look at her eye any time. |
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Seventeen Manhattan Windows
In April, 2008, I wandered aroud Manhattan for a week and ended up making lots of photographs of windows. I selected seventeen of them, and gave the set the obvious title, Seventeen Manhattan Windows. (More ...) |
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Mount Rainier Ale (sketch)
I started to make a model of Mt. Rainier using Rainier Ale cans, but I didn't get very far. That's why it's called a sketch; the title has nothing to do with pencils or charcoal. |
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Eighty-Four Things About Twelve French Girls
It’s really eighty-four things about twelve French women, but “girls” sounded a bit more French, a tad more ooh la la. (More ...) |
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Fifteen Bowlfuls (filler up, filler up) Why fifteen bowlfuls are represented by fifteen burnt match heads is something I can’t explain without going back to my teenage years. (More ...) |
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Thirteen Irradiated Wienerwursts
Thirteen formerly tubular sausages grotesquely disfigured by irradiation in a microwave oven. (More ...) |
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Lunar Target
A circular plane of undetermined diameter. The area, a one-meter deep layer of perfectly smooth lunar dust, serves as a target for meteors and asteroids, with any impact clearly apparent. (More ...) |
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Twenty-Two Lunar Features
Twenty-two photographs of lunar seas and marshes, made in part as an excuse to cite the original Latin names. (More ...) |
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Fuckeaters
Fuckeaters is a musical ensemble I concocted, complete with music I created and recorded. After recruiting three other musicians, I made a number of recordings working alone in my studio, and posted the songs here: fuckeaters.com. (More ...) |
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Eleven Popsicle Remnants
I made a dozen photographs of melted popsicles, then deleted one to convey an illusion of selection. (More ...) |
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Seven Frozen Meals Rich in Fat and Salt
I made these photographs without a camera by simply putting the frozen “meals” on a flatbed scanner. I originally planned on making more than seven images, but found the alleged food too unpalatable, even for me. (More ...) |
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Climate Change Documented: Eleven Alaskan Ice Cubes, from 27-31 May, 2007
I photographed ice cubes in Alaska, with the invaluable assistance of Dr. Min D. Rowse from the University of Anchorage. (More ...) |
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Sugarcubes Cubed
After Sol LeWitt died in April, 2007, I finally got around to making the sugarcube photographs I’d been planning for years. (More ...) |
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Twelve San Francisco Hotels
I photographed—in San Francisco—each of the twelve red, wooden hotels from my Monopoly game. (More ...) |
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Nineteen Recordings I Enjoyed as a Teenager
I photographed the grooves of individual compositions on the my old records that I haven’t played in decades. (More ...) |
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Therefore I Am
I mounted a hundred-dollar bill on a piece of paper above the words, “Therefore I Am.” (More ...) |
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