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31 Days in August 2009

31 artworks created each day through the month of August...the works respond to temporal events and occurrences of each day or time period: from personal events, memories, responses and specific places I visited, to current events and national/international issues that filtered into my life via the Internet and news media. While the discreet dated artworks have their own internal logic, each is linked to the cumulative momentum of the project as a whole. From day to day, residual elements from previous images re-emerge into new configurations -- the cumulative process allowing for osmosis to occur between works. The work has a conversation with itself that exists from within the series. Existing as it does within the structure of a calendar posting system of the blog format, it was formed and is presented around the discipline of that structure and has an entirely temporal, or 'time-specific' nature.

August 31, 2009 (Packing)




August 30, 2009 (Rainy Day)






August 29, 2009 (Thin veil)



August 28, 2009 (Island Lake)





August 27, 2009 (Intrusion)



August 26, 2009 (Underwater)





August 25, 2009 (Penner lake)



August 24, 2009 (Nowhere 3)




August 23, 2009 (Nowhere 2)



August 22, 2009 (Nowhere I have been)




August 21, 2009 (Out of the night)





August 20, 2009 (Trace)




August 19, 2009 (By the Sacramento river)







August 18, 2009 (Above Rossmoor)



August 17, 2009 (Eye of the storm)





August 16, 2009 (Under the bridge)






August 15, 2009 (Health care crisis)



August 14, 2009 (Deluge)



August 13, 2009 (Disrupted landscape)






August 12, 2009 (Spikey orb, inverted arches)



August 11, 2009 (Unknown territory)




August 10, 2009 (Sacramento construction site)




August 9, 2009 (Blue Tarp)



August 8, 2009 (Hudson River Tragedy)




Since this image received a lot of hits, I wanted to comment that the piece was a spontaneous response to this event, and was intended as a respectful commemoration of the tragedy. I hope that it possesses an elegaic quality.  The work in this blog series comments on daily events in my life, the news, and the world at large.



August 7, 2009 (Mihrab)



August 6, 2009 (Memories of the Mezquita, Cordoba)



August 5, 2009 (Hike in Muir Woods)



August 4, 2009 (Herat rocked by bomb blast)







August 3, 2009 (House move 2)



August 2nd, 2009 (Contemplating the imminent house move)



August 1, 2009 (The Money Show)




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