• The Shock of the View
    Sometimes the view chooses you.

    Having witnessed first hand what nature hath wrought, I share my post-hurricane disaster work as in Get a load of this!

    It’s taken years for me to compile these photos, drawings and transfer prints showing the beauty of something brutal.

    This series started with a trip to the Everglades in July of 2005, when a squawking crow seemed to be warning of impending doom. Hurricane Katrina came the next month. After the devastation, (we lost our home), I photographed the trees and scenery around my new house we moved into months later on the same street in Slidell, Louisiana and on trips to Florida. I was surprised to see that birds made a nest of a man’s shirt, while fishing nets dangled like a draped design from a tree next to Lake Pontchartrain. The way nature appropriates found me gradually making peace with the idea of wherever you go there you are.

    Originally entitled Oh, You Beautiful Disaster, as a tongue-in-cheek response to losing my boat house studio and home in the hurricane aftermath, the ruined views felt like fate stepping in guiding me to stay and create art in Louisiana and Florida, my back and forth places.
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  • Open Beak Crow, Perched, 2005, archival pigment print.
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  • West Rigolets Lighthouse, 2005, archival pigment print
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  • Fridge Tree, 2005, archival pigment print.
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  • Purple Martins and Bridge in Fog, 2009, archival pigment print
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  • Shirt Nest, 2006, archival pigment print
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  • Tree Trunk Reeling Back, 2010, archival pigment print.
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  • Already Foretold, 2004, original monotype as archival pigment print.
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  • Red Boot, 2007, archival pigment print.
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  • Live Oak, 2014, pastel drawing as archival pigment print.
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  • Swamp Pair, 2010, archival pigment print.
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  • Aloft, Entwined Vegetation, 2006, archival pigment print.
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  • Oak Shadow, 2010, archival pigment print.
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  • Swamp White Glimpse, 2011, archival pigment print.
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  • Nets Entwined, 2007, archival pigment print.
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  • Bahia Honda Bridge Gap, 2010, archival pigment print.
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  • Double Tree Stumpfs, 2017, archival pigment print.
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  • The Island Before the Storm, archival pigment print of an image transfer print.
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  • Pond, Trees, Lake, Sky, 2009, archival pigment print.
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  • Scroll of Nature, 2007, archival pigment print.
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  • Bent, 2006, archival pigment print.
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  • Still Clinging, 2007, archival pigment print.
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  • Net Curtain, 2007, archival pigment print.
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  • Island Abstract, 2005/2014, archival pigment print of a Polaroid Transfer
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  • Last Light Through Branches, 2009, archival pigment print.
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