JOURNAL
Striving to experience new landscapes by traveling far and near; rediscovering them when writing about them, with new eyes.
Architecture of erasure: Little Talbot Island's Boneyard Beach
I drove the old Buccaneer Trail — now the Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway — to the edge of Little Talbot Island, where the salt marsh gives way to a beach littered with the bones of once living trees. My son and I walked among them with a Phase One IQ3 100 Achromatic back on a Cambo WRS 1600 with 40mm lens, a pocket full of sand dollars, and a quiet prayer for a sand dollar presumed dead.
TRIPTYCH and more at the Bridge of Sighs in Venice.
Bridge of Sighs in Venice evokes feelings of anguish and hopes of escape. I thought of these emotions in a tercet and communicated my interpretation via a triptych. This blog post discusses how I sketched my way to that.