https://www.ndmoa.com/past-2017-into-the-weeds

Alter of the Immigrants and the Bowl of Give and Take

10 Tea toned cyanotype photograms. Poplar and Basswood table, Black Walnut Bowl

All plants were grown and collected from my garden where I collect English immigrant plants. 

Valerian. European native, valued in Ancient Greece and Rome, valued by the poor in England and Scotland. Sedative.

St John’s Wort. Imported as an ornamental, now invasive in CT. Medicinal, now used for anxiety and mood.

Burdock. Also known as the “great clot burr.” Arrived with cattle and bedding. Arrived 1672. Edible root. Troublesome for sheep when caught in wool. Invasive.

Scotch Thistle. Arrived 1759 in bedding. Edible, medicinal, used for heart medicine. Troublesome for sheep when caught in wool. Invasive.

Scotch Broom. (Birdsfoot Trefoil) Medicinal, a heart medicine. Arrived 1760’s, imported as an ornamental. Invasive.

White clover. Medicinal, used as a blood purifier, eyewash. Used for animal feed, soil improvement. A nitrogen setter. 

Purslane. Used as a vegetable since 1700’s. 

Oxeye Daisy. Imported as ornamental 1759. Invasive.

Mullein. Imported in 1750’s,  Medicinal use as anti inflammatory, skin disorders, and a dye. Also used as insecticide. Kills fish.

http://www.ndmoa.com/2015-autumn-art-auction-artwork

Many of my photographs are matched pairs, often two or three views of the same place just feet and minutes apart, though some are similar places though countries apart.  The gap of time and place between the paired images is important to me: what ever seen or not seen, the gap is the nexus. In comparing place to place, and time and place, I am making an effort to see and interpret personal life events more clearly. Hyperopia  8/14 at 6:00:43:09 and 6:00:54 am is part of an ongoing series called 20/20 vision.

My work Seeing Woods for Trees is in a traveling exhibition called A Walk in the Woods. this exhibition was curated by Laurel Reuter of the North Dakota Museum of Art. The exhibition schedule is available as well as the catalog of the work by some fabulous international artists here http://www.ndmoa.com/Rural-Arts.

Seeing Woods for Trees

I am please to be included in the Plains Museum’s annual themed exhibition and auction.For more information about Optical Illusions, please visit http://plainsart.org/exhibits/spring-gala-2014-art-auction-preview/morgan/

Paths Divided/Typology/Beltrami County to Cumbria

Paths Divided was accepted into Art on the Plains, juried by Hesse McGraw, curator for the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Neb.

Werner, 9/6 at 7:09/17 will be on display on the 1st and 2nd floor galleries at the Mpls Photo Center from June 24th to August 13th, 2011

After Sanford Gifford

This is yet another photograph taken because I had seen something similar 30 years ago in art history class, where I  drew the composition of the paintings as the slides went by, making it stick in my memory.  That class, taught by Rena Coen (Joel and Ethan Coen brothers mum) gave me my first and preferred view of America, oddly enough.  For me these paintings became a sort of comforting if highly fictionalized view of a county I was living in but had not yet explored.  Nowadays I walk out with my camera in these wild forests, and there are moment when I see the kind of landscape that painters such as Cole, Church, Friedrich, Blakelock, Gifford saw, and I’m amazed that I can feel so connected to the land through them.

This is photograph, After Sanford Gifford is on view at the North Dakota Museum of Art now.  It is 30×42 framed, and for sale in the annual Art Auction, November 7. http://ndmoa.com/artauctionfall08/index.htm

If you are interested in any of the many works in the auction, you don’t need to be there to bid.  Instruction are online.  I like this because the winning bid is split between the artists and the museum.  It’s a great museum under director Laurel Reuter, and the fundraiser is a worthy cause.

Morning (over Larson Lake) was chosen for the Relentless Eye Global Cell Photography 2009.  You can see the chosen work here and the jurors remarks on his choices here.