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I’m using this image on the card for my solo show at the Rondout Savings Bank near Woodstock. In my artist’s statement, I explain that I try to find aspects of nature wherever I go. Most of the photos in Read More

Just Kids is an amazing book. When I found out today that Patti Smith has been nominated for a National Book Award for this memoir, I felt like I was witnessing something auspicious, something worth sharing with people. Just Kids Read More

In today’s NY Times, Roberta Smith reviews the Joan Snyder show I covered in my 9.20.2010 post. “In all cases, the combination of sensuousness and honesty attracts,” wrote Smith.

I didn’t make it to the opening of “Joan Snyder: A Year in the Painting Life” at the Betty Cuningham Gallery on West 25th Street, and I wonder if many people did since tornados touched down in parts of NYC Read More

Driving through town today, I saw the papered-over windows of the Golden Notebook and felt sad that a 32-year-old business has closed. But I was thrilled that someone has bought the bookstore, will renovate it and continue to run an Read More

Welcome to Notes. I’m originally from NC, but now (for almost 20 years) a NY-based writer, photographer, and poet. This post is for writers—anyone who wants to pick up a pen, put words on a page, and go wherever that Read More

Last night I went to a lecture given by Doug Beasley at the Center for Photography Woodstock. The work Beasley chose to show is beautiful, vast, spirit-filled, ambitious. Beasley is a generous speaker, freely naming cameras and film choice. He Read More