Final Cut on the Performance Photographs

Blue Bear Performance at Chinati, Marfa, Texas


Wearing Fake Moustaches as Sideburns on a Windy Day in Amarillo, Texas


Walking Up Amarillo Ramp in high heels to ride on the memories of hearing “Hi-Yo Silver, Away”


We Got the Time and the Goods and are Happy to Write You a Check. Paying Our Way into Lightning Field, Quemado, New Mexico.






Cleaning the Sky Walk at the Grand Canyon with Roberto


Fly Like an Eagle Uniform for Performance at Sky Walk, Grand Canyon


A man watched us from an SUV on top of Roden Crater as the whip cracked on our grand opening parade.


Michael… Jackson (28 June 2009)


Wind Current and Gravity at Double Negative (Resulting in One More Climb Down into the Cut to Retrieve What Fell In)


(A still from) The Imaginary Bike Ride in the Clouds at Double Negative


At Double Negative There’s Still A Positive – You Get Cell Phone Reception


Listening to Vibrations Across Double Negative


Lines of Communication at Double Negative


Barefoot at Sun Tunnels for Four Hours


It’s a Man Job: Filling the Holes at Sun Tunnels to the Point of Exhaustion (One Hour)


Michael Heizer Makes an Appearance at Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels


Six Hours Later, Exhausted at Spiral Jetty


(A still from) a dizzying hot pink prom dress whirling at Spiral Jetty.


Hot Pink: The View the Passengers Saw from the Airplane Above as They Circled Over Spiral Jetty

Final Cut on the Rest of the Photographs (with titles!)

The Last of the Polaroid Film: Two Exposures Each at Six Earthworks (Traditional and Family Vacation)


From the air, Roden Crater looked like a glazed doughnut and that also remained true from the ground.


Cowgirl as Scale at Double Negative and Amarillo Ramp


Pink Hot Dipping Doughnuts From the Bonneville Salt Flats to Marfa, Texas


Ten Second Zen at Sun Tunnels Two Days after the Summer Solstice


A Trail of Collection Bags at Spiral Jetty Containing Salt, Rocks, and Snake Skin


The Scenic View Point at Spiral Jetty

Performative Burial Actions

The final cut (mentioned in the previous post):

Today's Output

Round 1 (this afternoon)



Round 2 (after eating dinner and mowing the lawn in the dark)

From Venice Beach to Muncie

Nancy hand delivered my letter to Ed Ruscha's mailbox today (photographs forthcoming). While she is basking in the California sun, I am in a windowless computer lab printing the first two photographs from our road trip. Here are some bad i-phone photographs from the last three hours.


It's the Bonneville Salt Flats and Fake Doughnut Diptych (the bad light giving the opposite impression of Southern California).


hmmm.... 30"x20" vs. 22"x15"?


A rough idea...

Earthworks Polaroids

Nancy had 12 Polaroids left and we were unable to locate any more film before or during the trip (predictably so though hoping small town Walgreens would still have some on the shelves). We only had one opportunity to capture the earthwork and the "vacation" photograph in front of it. There weren't any other options as this is what we have whether it's Nancy's moustache falling off and me grimacing at the mosquito biting my hand at Sun Tunnels, sideburns barely visible at Amarillo Ramp or we are squinting into the sun and can barely see a thing at Double Negative. This is the last of the Polaroids - a dying photographic form not too disimilar to the earthworks left to disintegrate in the elements.