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My co-hiker and I met these “Frontier Boys” at the Rainbow Lodge, northern Sierra (for private use now). They served us beer as we walked in on their gathering. A dozen of 80 were there and on their way to north of the Ruby Mountains in northeastern Nevada (high elevation Great Basin mountains) to pack into the high country with horses.
The Temple family commissioned me to design and build 2 wall size shelving units (each in 3 parts for move-ability) and a desk. I used reclaimed lumber except for the actual shelves.
I co-curated (with Megan Kay) an exhibit of Jack Chapman’s (Bay Area) documentary work as well as a celebration of the short film format in Serva Pool project space at Holland Project Gallery. The screening included: A 16mm print of Carolee Schneemann’s Fuses, Valerie Bischoff’s Derby Kings, a short short video from Tucker Rash, raw super 8’s from Dane Haman and a video piece from Audrey Lee Love. July 2016
Kitchen tent in the northern Sierra Nevada. Ranger station restoration, summer 2016. I volunteered with Historicorp to help with the restoration.
Pinon Bottle, a new business in Reno, purchased one of my custom 10ft. long benches (reclaimed redwood and douglas fir). They just opened their doors for business.
I participated in the restoration (as a volunteer) of 3 of 5 buildings that were once a Forest Service ranger guard station. The buildings haven’t been used since the early 1980’s. Historicorp lead the volunteer effort. Folks from as far away as Alberta Canada, Denver and the Los Angeles area came to help. The guard station is in the northern Sierra Nevada.
The guard station buildings were built in the early 20th century. One was a cabin built in the teens. The Forest Service then built the other 4 structures by the 1930’s. There is hope that the Pacific Crest Trail Association will use them as a base camp for PCT hikers. That location is a stop over, food re-stocking and take stock juncture along the PCT. This would provide a legitimate base camp for a location that has historically always been a prime spot for one. The nearby town of Sierra City has provided, informally, this role.
I’m beginning to fashion a series of Obscura Cases, primarily for education purposes, but for fun… Pinhole lens.
From a late March, early April excursion to the Palisades, southern Sierra Nevada. I attempted to bivouac a Wood Opticon from 2015, but the right spot didn’t present itself. (And a camp from another time in the Ruby Mountains.)
A new wood opticon with a medium format (6×7) color slide… March 2016- a commissioned object for Russell.
The slide image was captured near the North Fork American River in the northern Sierra Nevada. It’s a 19th century hand cut timber cabin, one of two, that the forest service has managed to save from wildfires. The canyon flat near the river on which it sits is reachable by hiking or on horseback.
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A new edition slide viewer, medium format: the viewer in the shaping process, the base for the sculpture and the slide holder/viewer close to completion- edition #1. 2016
Young Blood exhibit, Feb. 2016. Holland Project Gallery.
This is THE exhibit for high school art stars, up and comers. Art works are for sale, and the kids show up ready.
Digital photos taken in South Beach, Miami during Art Basel- Miami. 2015: a side project while I worked the gargantuan art fair.
The neighborhood is ripe with Art Deco details and the intermingling of wealth with working class.
Olympus om-d
8,591 ft. and at the base of the Sierra Buttes. fall 2015
Olympus om-d
A return to the Sierra Buttes is around the corner… waiting.
A new series of prints from the darkroom. Seen: Mt. Baldy, LA area.
Olympus OM 2n
Studio remodel: first wall done, custom shelving.
First wall insulation in the studio.
The project trailer, Capere, is coming out of moth balls. Work will resume on this traveling exhibition space with attention to under the floor framing reinforcements. I began this design-build project a few years back and had to set it aside to make room for other projects.
Last site placement for the Wood Opticons -2015, in the northern Sierra Nevada.
