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some place long gone
  "I don't know what that's supposed to tell you; nothing, except that we take comfort in the symmetries we find in life because they suggest a design when there is none." —Nicole Krauss, Great House

 
 
         
       
 
what fire
  "It was a tangled and perplexing thicket, through which we stumbled and threaded our way, and when we had finished a mile of it, our starting-point seemed far away."
—Henry David Thoreau

2010-2011
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imaginary story
  A suite of small drawings exploring imagined landscapes and stormy fictions–2009. Selected images shown here.
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middle, middle west
  "The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical." —John Cage

Middle, Middle West chronicles personal anecdotes shaped by aspects of memory and quotidian experiences. Selected works from 2005-2009. Click to enlarge.
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want lists / letters for everyone
  “To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.” —Roland Barthes

2005-2006/2011.
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archives
  A sampling from three different bodies of work–2003-2005.
around town / goodbye, summer / almost always, as much
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