Field Notes

After the Giants

The mammoth, the cell tower, and the dawn of The Upper Anthropocene

Making Something Look Old

A few cracks can make something look damaged. They do not necessarily make it look old.

What Was Once in the Way

For years, looking for a scene or a landscape to use as a basis for a photograph or drawing meant finding a way around something.

From Photograph to Memory to Print

A photograph can preserve a place with remarkable precision. Precision is not the same as truth.

Machines or Shrines

When a system disappears, a machine becomes something else.

Looking for Evidence of What Was Here

I am still following that stone wall, in a sense. I am still looking for openings, lost roads, unexplained structures, and evidence of what was here.

Black and White - For Now

I don't consider black and white a permanent rule. For now, it is a limitation I enjoy working within.

Every New Tool is a Threat

The technology that arrives after we have spent decades learning how to work can feel like an assault.

The Field

Geography exists in two places.

Someone Else's Mystery

First Proof

The Drawing Before the Woodcut

Before a woodcut becomes a block of carved marks, it begins as a disorderly pile of possibilities.

An Epoch Ends and No One Noticed

Ramblings about Quarries

The Anthropic Overlap

The Scale of Time

More Words about the Geographic Memory Series

Printmaking Editions