IT'S HERE!!!!!!!

Just got back from Betty's- hanging the show. HUGE thanks to Kathy Sherin- printmaking artist and Betty's curator. It looks great!
Now, looking forward to seeing all the friends, acquaintances and art lovers tonight. Again, it's Betty's, 370 Virginia in Buffalo, 6-9 pm. The show is up until January 6th.

"Ireland and Spirit" at Betty's

Yes! It's finally here! Of course, as all showing artists out there know, this last week is where all of the craziness sets in- framing, hanging, marketing, etc. It is nice to be in the home stretch, though.
Here's the grant (read:short) version of the artist's statement:

Photographing and printing the images from Ireland, I realize that there is a vision of culture. Does the fact that ancient, sometimes mysterious monuments are standing, mostly untouched, help to affect the way of life? Has it given the population inspiration to be a more spiritual/visual people?

As a photographer, I tend to focus on buildings that won’t be around long, such as buildings that will be torn down, or reclaimed by nature. In Ireland, neither of these seems probable. Buildings are not disposable. Being structures of stone, nature is certainly present, but only as an accent. This is something in American culture that really bothers me. Beautiful and useful buildings are often cleared away to make room for big box stores and parking lots. It’s refreshing to shoot without the pressure of the structure not existing the next day.

The opportunity to photograph in that atmosphere leaves room for a lot of thought. It has helped me cement the theory that when a people lives around their own visual history, they choose a way of building things in the present that can be appreciated by future generations.

Hope to see you all at Betty's, October 15, 6-9!

Starting September

Well, I need to get to the darkroom, and it's going to hit 90 degrees. It's going to be interseting...
I will, however, focus on the end product here- the show is shaping up to be something great. And I'm using it, among other things, as a springboard to be a photographer as a living.
Not to put too much emphasis on the past, but I've spent an awful long time doing other things that do not make me happy; things that I was not meant to do. Now, in the past week, I've been scanning a lot of negatives of Mark Freeland- photos that I took twenty years ago, for the memorial party on the 15th. Alot of those photographs are pretty damn good! 20 years old! I really need to do this. This is just another revelation of many, but I have a feeling that this one is very strong because Freeland wants some credit- don't worry Mark-lots of credit...
The aforementioned party is at the Towne Ballroom in Buffalo on September 15, starting at 7pm.
And I'll have the slideshow up on the Buffaloroots website shortly after the party.

On a Roll Now....

Well, it's my weekend again- only have one last Tues/Weds weekends left. I wasn't terribly thrilled to have to work on actual weekends, but it has got me to the darkroom very consistently, which, in retrospect, was quite good to get me ready for the Ireland show. For example, tomorrow, I'll be printing (and the darkroom will actually be a decent temperature, with the cool weather we had over the real weekend). Wednesday, I'll spend some time at my friend/framer Mar's shop, State of the Art, to prepare the photos for showing. I'm getting pretty excited....

The house is in it's last phase of work. Besides less pounding and dust, this means we can start peeling the plastic off of the electronics around here. That means the promised image snippets will be posted soon. Then there's the invitation....