Dollar Store Barbie Pop Art

Dollar Store Barbie + Lobster Bisque, Pittsburgh, 2020

Dollar Store Pop Art 2020

Dollar Tree had condensed lobster bisque on their shelves.  I thought I'd try it.  It was not good, and is indeed lobster bisque in name only, not in any sort of reality - even a trumpian reality.  I did save the can, though.  It is the absolute height of plumping the depths of pop art as envisioned by Andy Warhol.

Blizzard!

Blizzard of 2010, Pittsburgh

Yes, ten years ago today, a snow squall sat over western Pennsylvania, and dumped three feet (1 meter) of snow on us.  Good times.  In the last few years we've barely gotten any snow in this area.  Now it's all rain.

We Are The Ghouls

Horseshoe Crab, Primehook Beach, DE 2011


I collect their discarded molts and dead remains while the tide retreats and the sun bleeds across the bay.  Some mornings the beach is littered with horseshoe crabs stuck on their backs, their pointed tails trying to gain purchase in the sand so that they can right themselves, their 8 legs blindly stabbing at a distant sky.  We flip them over.  But others gather them up and they are drained of their copper-based, blue blood.  Not drained until death, at least not intentionally, but drained to sate medical research needs.  It's ghoulish and cruel, with no international standards.

Repeating Form

Viola soroia Root Network, Pittsburgh, PA, 2013

While doing some research into neural networks, I was struck by the similarities between that system and root systems.  But nature is quite like that, repeating form over and over.

Through the Trees

Connoquenessing Creek and Water Treatment Plant, Ellwood City, PA 2020

Peering through the naked branches of many trees is like trying to make out form in a scribble. 

Block & Tackle, A Study

Block&Tackle, A Study, Fombell, PA 2020