What is art / not art?
This distinction – what is art and what is not art – used to haunt me. I’ve been fascinated my whole life with the notion… Read More »What is art / not art?
On Becoming the Line – Blog
Receive my occasional reflections in your inbox
Once in a while (and I mean, my intention is monthly but work out to 3-4 a year), I write a little reflection to send… Read More »Receive my occasional reflections in your inbox
A Day Backpacking in the Grand Canyon – Video Mini-Documentary – March 2025
A fun day-long dialogue around a day backpacking in the Grand Canyon.
Podcast – A conversation on art as spiritual practice
I had a lovely conversation on art as spiritual practice with Christine and Chris, who run a podcast called The Contemplative Life. We discussed the… Read More »Podcast – A conversation on art as spiritual practice
New Painting: Darwin Basin, Sierras
Something I wrote one evening while backpacking in the Sierras last summer: A field of sheer granite with rivulets, falling into the King’s Canyon itself… Read More »New Painting: Darwin Basin, Sierras
New Drawing, Encroachment (and an encouragement from Edward Abbey)
“It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here.“ I… Read More »New Drawing, Encroachment (and an encouragement from Edward Abbey)
Embracing the Gifts of Darkness
In 2019 I began making drawings with crumpled paper. Taking a clean sheet of paper, I’d crumple the thing up in my hands, then smooth… Read More »Embracing the Gifts of Darkness
Nightswimming
Finished this little oil painting over the holiday. Inspired by backpacking in Lake Chelan, the joy and adventure of actual nightswimming, REM’s Nightswimming, and the… Read More »Nightswimming
Winter Solstice Doodling, and fragments
Sketching and musing over the Winter Solstice, December 2024. rain shadownavigating the fog of dreaming and shadow and just above, and within… turmoil and tumultcurves… Read More »Winter Solstice Doodling, and fragments
Twilight in the Grand Canyon, as an encounter more than a happening
oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″ This painting has been a journey. Three months and at least a dozen different versions, tried out, painted over,… Read More »Twilight in the Grand Canyon, as an encounter more than a happening
We Are Breathing Puzzles – why we need spiritual companions in our lives
We often crave answers before we take the first step, but what if the journey itself is the answer? Lately, I’ve been exploring what it… Read More »We Are Breathing Puzzles – why we need spiritual companions in our lives
On Apocalypses
Well that was a shit election. I didn’t need to watch the needle – last evening’s downcast faces told me all I needed to know.… Read More »On Apocalypses