Metal and INK

Ink Drawing: Another Part

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
-Buddha

Ink Drawings: In Reds

Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride.
-Sutta Nipata

I made these ink drawings in the spring of 2006. They were not well received. I was told that my work was not cohesive and I almost believed them. I came across these drawings and others like them about a month ago while I was packing to move. I think I love these drawings more now then I did three years ago... and who needs one persons opinion of cohesion anyway.

Photographs: July, After The Rain

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. -Blaise Pascal

I took these photographs a few mornings ago. It had been raining for days. It was beautiful. I started at the covered bridge in Rosendale, then I went to farm land outside of New Paltz, the marsh land in the Valley, and the to the ridge.

Photographs: Beltane

Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun.- Kahlil Gibran

I have been going to Beltane for nine years. Some years are better than others and there will never be one like my first, but this year was a great year. I'm glad I had my camera.

Photographs: Red Apple Rest

The degradation of the sense of symbol in modern society is one of its many signs of spiritual decay.- Thomas Merton

This series of photographs was taken at the Red Apple Rest, once a legendary hot spot when route 17 was the best way to get from NYC to the Catskills, now condemned. The Tuxedo stop opened in 1931, just months before the completion of the George Washington Bridge and survived for 78 years. It was a travelers haven, so legendary that several movie scenes were filmed there like"Oliver's Story" in 1978, "Deconstructing Harry" in 1996, and "Tenderness" in 2006 starring Russell Crowe.

I grew up passing this landmark, but I never went in. I never even stopped in the parking lot. By the time I was conscious, this renown rest paradise was a peeling empty memory. I always had plans to pull in but I didn't make time until these photographs were taken this spring.