“Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it’s not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.” –Chuck Close Looking for art for your home or office or something to spice up your digital desktop? This image is available for printing and download. You can also check out the…… Continue reading A Place to Sit 3
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A Place to Sit 2
“The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.” –Theodore Roosevelt A place to sit. The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Wisconsin. Looking for art for your home or…… Continue reading A Place to Sit 2
Frost
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” –John Burroughs Frosty ice crystals form on my office window on a very cold January winter morning in Milwaukee. They are beautiful for sure, but…… Continue reading Frost
Peeling Back the Layers
“I wondered to what extent people remained the same as they’d been when very young; if one peeled back the layers of living one would come to know the child.” –Dick Francis With my son as my guide, I’m working toward peeling back the strata of my own life to reveal the wide-eyed exploring curious child I…… Continue reading Peeling Back the Layers
The Glass Tower on Downer Avenue
This concrete and glass “tower” sits on the corner of Downer Avenue and Bellview Place on the East Side of Milwaukee. I’ve tried shooting this many times and have never really captured the shot I wanted. But then today, after shooting it once more, I discovered one of the reasons I was not satisfied. The…… Continue reading The Glass Tower on Downer Avenue
Milwaukee County War Memorial Center
The Milwaukee County War Memorial Center looking east across Lake Michigan. Designed by Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen, construction on the center began in 1955. Heavily influenced by the abstract geometry of French architect Le Corbusier, Saarinen incorporated many of Le Corbusier’s ideas: lifting the majority of the building off the ground on columns, eliminating load-bearing walls to create open floor plans, and…… Continue reading Milwaukee County War Memorial Center
Twelve Squares
Twelve squares in three rows of four across – close up detail of a worn and rusty metal drain cover in Riverside Park, on the East Side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I was out playing with my son in the park when I spotted these cool geometric shapes on this steel sewer grate. The harsh shadows…… Continue reading Twelve Squares