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Jackson Pollock, 1951

October 12, 2009

I first saw this scene in the movie, ‘The New York School’. It was one of those movies I watched over and over again in the library screening rooms at Moorhead State. All of the artist banter and Abstract Expressionist one-liner’s are priceless. It was here that I first heard Pollock’s famous retort to Hans [...]

Man on Wire

September 28, 2009

The Sundance channel is running a marvelous documentary about the Frenchman, Philippe Petit, who, in 1974, walked across a wire between the World Trade Towers, in NYC. What an engaging meditation on so many things, beauty, dreams, risk, mystery…the Towers… Petit was immediately arrested after making 8 crossings on his walk, and people demanded to [...]

Anne Greenwood at Pendleton Center for the Arts

July 14, 2009

A friend and former classmate at Moorhead State University, Anne Greenwood, opens a show at the Pendleton Center for the Arts on July 17, 2009. Her recent work titled, ‘Winter Count’, features embroidered pictographs of stunning originality. In her artists’ statement, Anne says that the work is deeply autobiographical and connected to her background as [...]

Regulus calendula, or what we call spring in Minnesota…

April 24, 2009

There is hope…a Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula) showed up at our bird bath today. This beautiful little migrant bird marks an end to this very long winter in Minnesota, probably a week or so ahead of the Warblers that will be coming through in May. Last year, on a hike along the Mississippi river, near [...]

Maple Syrup Label Project

April 9, 2009

Having recently completed a label design for a micro-”brewer?” of Maple Syrup in southern Minnesota, I was very interested to hear on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) on my drive home from work one night, that Maple Syrup has become a hot commodity among thieves: “Sticky-fingered bandits make off with 15,000 litres of Quebec maple syrup”, [...]