Himalaya Training

A little training for Nepal in Little Cottonwood Canyon (the Thumb)

Ferguson Canyon

                               Rock Canyon Squaw Peak

Kimchi Kale Salad

skiing up

 skinning up Millicent

 Rock Canyon

 Big Cottonwood Canyon, Mill B Fork

















Camping on Mount Olympus

 Lentil and winter root salad

 Mount Millicent, Little Baldy

                                    Ama Dablam

Planting Garlic Cornbread Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Garlic ready to plant, cornbread, and dinner at the Airport Diner in Manchester, New Hampshire.

Joan Mitchell paints a landscape, Chamonix














Jamie Wyeth meets imaginary artists

 Thomas Cole dreaming of the future

 Inness in his New England paradise

 Bierstadt in his mountain paradise

 Twatchtman in his Connecticut Paradise

Liliana Porter, figures in plaster

Las Vegas

 Las Vegas lighting up from the Red Rock Preserve as the sun goes down.  Including the Sphinx at the Luxor and the lovely light in the airport well appointed for gambling.

 "Risky Business, next to Dark Shadows.

 Inside "Tunnel Vision"

 at the end of Tunnel Vision

Meditation Space

 

At the edge of nothingness and invisibility is the materiality of collecting.  These reminders of what cannot be seen include reliquaries containing the bones of saints, Buddhist shrines, and boxes designed to capture the fleeting experience of a day together.  On a mountain in Nepal, I gathered green granite crystals, along with scraps of prayer flags, rusted pitons, and old coins.  This collection is a shrine to an ineffable experience of living in the clouds, which forms part of the Meditation Space.  It includes, irony and humor, figures of batman, wild animals, and sacred rocks from my childhood. The Meditation Space is a bricolage about the power of chance, coincidence, silence, and life’s inner forces.

 Collaborative exhibition space in the BF Larsen Gallery, Brigham Young University , Movement and Meaning, the power of pilgrimage with Josh Graham, Kristen Sumbot, Allie Jenkins, Natalie Wood and Tara Carpenter.

himalayan painting

  Even further toward the edge of nothingness and invisibility is the materiality of a painting.  A painting is a strange anachronistic object in the age of digital pictures. Like sacred reliquaries containing the bones of saints, paintings are reminders of what cannot be seen. The paintings of the Himalaya invite the viewer to enter into the solitude of contemplation.

The mountains are dreams of creation, another kingdom, of sublime beauty, where no one can live, but which draws us up toward the purity of intention. These mountains enclose a thousand Buddhist shrines, villages founded by flying llamas, a million steps, and little gardens with tiny chickens  hiding under baskets. The paintings reflect impossibly effortless attempts, not to paint a scene, but to capture the gesture of the clouds turning into mountains turning into clouds. the ineffable painting that is perfect in its possibility, the painting just before it takes form as a painting.