Para Siempre At San Francisco Art Commission Gallery Exhibition

I'm honored to be included in a group show of bright artists and photographers who've rendered the stunning and fabulous Juanita MORE! over the last three decades!!! I made this portrait of Juanita MORE! 20ish+ years ago, it's call "Para Siempre" or "Forevermore."

Juanita: 30 Years of MORE! is an exhibit curated by Marcel Pardo Ariza for San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. The show hangs from 09/30/2022 through 10/12/2022 at SFAC Main Gallery on 401 Van Ness Ave., Suite 126, San Francisco. The opening reception is Friday September 30 from 6-8pm.

Happy Autumnal Equinox, Everyone 

Reunion Tower, Dallas Texas

For three years, I drove by Reunion Tower at least ten times a week when we lived in Dallas. Every single time, I created this picture of it with my imagination but not with my camera! About a month ago with just a few days left in Texas, I finally busted out the tripod and actually made the picture.

There will be a lot more work to come from my time in Dallas, work that I'm very happy with: New Project Coming Soon: Turtle Creek- A Sacred Water Body In Dallas Texas

New Project Coming Soon: Turtle Creek- A Sacred Water Body In Dallas Texas

Under The Bridge

Turtle Creek, Dallas Texas

Water Portal

Turtle Creek, Dallas Texas

Turtle Creek- A Sacred Water Body In Dallas Texas will be a finished portfolio of approximately 15 photographs. Inspired by learning that Black people performed baptisms in Turtle Creek after slavery in Texas ended (somewhere downstream from an exclusive Exall Lake resort and what would later become the sundown town of Highland Park), I began photographing my own spiritual experiences there. This work envisages the sacredness of this important water body: religious/spiritual experiences of it now and in the past; how it is commodified for wealth/real estate value upstream; and how further downstream, it is deigned as squalor or overly engineered as if it's a nuisance. This isn't a documentary project. It is poetic fine art with the history and facts informing my creative process. This project is part of a broader arc of intention in my work to develop, see and photograph the world through the lens of animism.