Author at Large
Thrilled the TAG Gallery in Los Angeles accepted my photograph CoGen for the 2019 California Exhibition. Their juror, Ruth Weisbergchose 110 artworks for this year’s exhibition from 1,400+submissions received nationwide. The exhibition runs from August 7 through August 23 and the artists’ reception and awards ceremony is on Saturday, August 10, from 5 to 8 pm. Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinTumblrStumbleUpon
I sold my first limited edition photograph. Winter’s Tree 1/20. It’s funny because I’ve been feeling pretty down about things not selling. My girlfriend had just said, things will click, just keep the faith. Right after she said that I get a call from the gallery. They need another photograph to fill the now empty …
Under a Gibbous Moon When left on my own, my daughtersabsent to friends or family,insomnia finds me 80 milesaway from home.Kneeling in the desertdirt, I frame my shot of tumbledand graffitied rock walls. The camera as steady on the tripod as my hand.I’m drinkingless these nights, but still findsleeping worse than sobriety.Like the first drink,though, …
Dust and smog filter all but the sediment lightof the sun. Skyrockets explode before darknessto the delight of patriots on both sidesof the valley, and those who stand in between, under the fire, under the bright and shimmering colors where the shadows falland the ash and smoke curl away. In the foothills, a dog pulls …
The mouse in the springweeds and grasscan’t hear the kestrelfalling from the sky,only the steam hissingfrom the broken flow-lineand the rhythmic clatterof pump-jacks. Share this…FacebookPinterestTwitterLinkedinTumblrStumbleUpon
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The girls and I went to the U.S. premiere of HBO’s Ice on Fire. This documentary, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, and directed by Leila Conners with cinematography by (full disclosure time) my friend Harun Mehmedinović. It begins with DiCaprio narrating our state of existence and the precipice of disaster we are racing towards. He does …
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I first heard of Chiara Barzini’s novel, Things that Happened Before the Earthquake, on the Los Angeles Review of Books podcast. Like a trip through a foreign country the novel has some rough passages and its beautiful passages that makes you stop and linger at the stunning landscape of sentences. Sometimes it distorts time, place, …
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