tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35059817306548485672024-02-29T21:41:32.971-08:00Norm Halm~ PhotographmakerImages and Writing by Norm HalmNorm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.comBlogger154125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-74432020813418728642023-10-21T14:55:00.003-07:002023-11-04T17:45:46.443-07:00Featured In Group Exhibition: NUDE GEOGRAPHIES Curated By Praxis Directors<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXeGt7lP1YahOwb5d6_8jhjARBypg86q8AizqqyXAwohZGqPYaXk9wFzEE90SZDMFNgBZyqKLnmYFDJ3_oyZ1rvHUSy4PQzIj7o_5SLgowZFe4--qURUj67FrEniZVPauhnn53O5bMCUnLVBnjgIHiqA8AIVPQmKxWqQqjTJfH9MwsycmCdLVrc_JDH4s" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="1920" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjXeGt7lP1YahOwb5d6_8jhjARBypg86q8AizqqyXAwohZGqPYaXk9wFzEE90SZDMFNgBZyqKLnmYFDJ3_oyZ1rvHUSy4PQzIj7o_5SLgowZFe4--qURUj67FrEniZVPauhnn53O5bMCUnLVBnjgIHiqA8AIVPQmKxWqQqjTJfH9MwsycmCdLVrc_JDH4s=w400-h286" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://youtu.be/-FpzgmmuQRQ?si=so3hr09ksE6-Dbeo"><span style="color: #bf9000;">Some Kind Of Love</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: georgia;"><i>by Norm Halm</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Saturday, October 21, 6–8PM</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><b>Opening Reception for:</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i><b>LETTERS, NUMBERS & SYMBOLS</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i>JURIED BY DALLAS CROW</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i><b>NUDE GEOGRAPHIES</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i>CURATED BY PRAXIS DIRECTORS</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Exhibition dates: October 21–November 11, 2023</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://praxisgallery.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a873dd7fcae1d2765a045025c&id=530330fc00&e=75482efd64"><span style="color: #999999;">Exhibit books are available</span></a> <span style="color: #666666;">to order now. Photos and a virtual tour of the exhibits will be posted </span><a href="https://praxisgallery.us16.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a873dd7fcae1d2765a045025c&id=edea21b218&e=75482efd64"><span style="color: #999999;">on our blog</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> in the coming weeks.</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i>Praxis Gallery & Photo Arts Center</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i>2637 27th Ave. S. | Minneapolis, MN 55406</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i>~ Free, secure, off-street parking ~</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;">Praxis Gallery is located in The Ivy Arts Building Annex. Enter the parking lot from 27th Ave., our main entrance is to the left. </span></i></div><p></p>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-61229690048305189052023-09-23T16:58:00.005-07:002023-11-04T17:59:24.557-07:00Pelican Rapids, Minnesota <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipwCxfjgkTgfr-i3sCfCo4hFxYAWZoRWyPXXxRBtjMjngxAOgusb7wpx66-Ea4CAUy_I3MaZD8J5Rr-ow0qYBzYUiNA4t80F-Rh4pxd449RKlbzyKpGRmF1hEn2dR58qccxY4GHLSSDEaWRNPfUQL7fKtOmPq_Ho0y5qIWbyEcyovKtv03DPoukKFjmkY" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipwCxfjgkTgfr-i3sCfCo4hFxYAWZoRWyPXXxRBtjMjngxAOgusb7wpx66-Ea4CAUy_I3MaZD8J5Rr-ow0qYBzYUiNA4t80F-Rh4pxd449RKlbzyKpGRmF1hEn2dR58qccxY4GHLSSDEaWRNPfUQL7fKtOmPq_Ho0y5qIWbyEcyovKtv03DPoukKFjmkY=w427-h640" width="427" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #999999;">Silo, Viking Trail, Northern Minnesota</span></i></div></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #999999;">I’ve been bouncing around this country for 7-8 years. We’ve lived in 4 states from 2015-2022, moving to follow work opportunities, better life quality, maybe a pipe dream too… etc. Every time we move, it’s like the rug is pulled out from under my feet as far as my personal photography goes. I’m getting more and more project focused, and also with age, my work has become more and more about a sense of place. Getting to know a new place, at least on a level that I can photograph it satisfactorily, takes time, like getting to know a new person. Unpeeling an onion. Finding the native plants and talking to the locals. I hadn’t picked up my camera to make new pictures in almost a year since moving to Minneapolis from Dallas- and that was, honestly quite painful, despite life being really really good here so far overall. I haven’t found my new project/s here yet but I’m inspired, optimistic and grateful. Minnesota, upper Midwest, especially The Driftless Area… All new friends.</span></i></div></span><p></p>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-4536254567608329072023-07-04T09:08:00.003-07:002023-11-04T17:35:12.211-07:00This Is July 4, 2023!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9FfIfo-nDjkcN4RV52m6BPvivFAlTiO0UOzRK6KgLVDYKRCS0lzpwq8Kwwz6W8mfnxgNggF_PZSfndHtmfmmfk3lCbwHvc-4i1Zyiuhr5lGPDK88IYw2w_cajZPP-R-PRRi8nHPE2Qbphwj2djGAqy6D3Jy30brRvk391qnWhquBXsexr1l5WuZMxUak" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2993" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi9FfIfo-nDjkcN4RV52m6BPvivFAlTiO0UOzRK6KgLVDYKRCS0lzpwq8Kwwz6W8mfnxgNggF_PZSfndHtmfmmfk3lCbwHvc-4i1Zyiuhr5lGPDK88IYw2w_cajZPP-R-PRRi8nHPE2Qbphwj2djGAqy6D3Jy30brRvk391qnWhquBXsexr1l5WuZMxUak=w400-h268" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">District 54 Schoolhouse, Viking Trail</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">Fergus Falls Minnesota, July 2023</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #666666;">There’s a lot about this country that unequivocally needs to be relegated to the past; such as discrimination against racial minorities and LGBT+ people, the oppression of women, etc. Yet there are institutions, individuals, interest groups, political parties and lobbies working hard to make America's past come back again while trying equally hard to keep an honest and actual working knowledge of that history in the dark. But I won’t concede to deliberately repeating the mistakes of our past. Will you? I vehemently reject the term </span><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">“<a href="https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=1188543449:1188543450" target="_blank"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;">woke</span></a>”</span><span style="color: #666666;"> as a pejorative because I understand it in its original context -- awake to the inequalities, abuses and overall exploitation of a system supposedly meant to uphold the virtues of freedom and equality. I will keep pursuing the untold and omitted histories (and acknowledge their through lines to the present) of those who participate/d so monumentally in breathing life into the complex tapestry of this nation despite having the odds deliberately stacked against them.</span></i></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>This is July 4th, 2023!</i></span></p>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-8074690921630302112022-09-22T10:00:00.002-07:002022-09-25T12:18:21.663-07:00Para Siempre At San Francisco Art Commission Gallery Exhibition<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTdj0AZEpqdv08wrIJrhkmlIDuoDBhEcktF4WJzE7IWTIvBYa6GziSplIICIzP-Zp5M37Gn_AU4-h85ZhVFFZTbJ3jE5rAGWJB2uDnILwGXw0Gehgim49jeTK1pfcX1vh_KvW7wqxByyxnj4LjSpyIJH1GtZaK6LMBMi2BlAUFJq1vi7pCGwtcrKpH/s2400/ParaSiempre_IG_SQFrame_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2400" data-original-width="2400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTdj0AZEpqdv08wrIJrhkmlIDuoDBhEcktF4WJzE7IWTIvBYa6GziSplIICIzP-Zp5M37Gn_AU4-h85ZhVFFZTbJ3jE5rAGWJB2uDnILwGXw0Gehgim49jeTK1pfcX1vh_KvW7wqxByyxnj4LjSpyIJH1GtZaK6LMBMi2BlAUFJq1vi7pCGwtcrKpH/w400-h400/ParaSiempre_IG_SQFrame_.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>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."</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/juanita-30-years-more"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">Juanita: 30 Years of MORE!</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> is an exhibit curated by </span><a href="https://www.marcelapardo.com"><span style="color: #999999;">Marcel Pardo Ariza</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> 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. </span><a href="https://www.sfartscommission.org/calendar/opening-celebration-juanita-30-years-more"><span style="color: #d5a6bd;">The opening reception is Friday September 30 from 6-8pm.</span></a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-large;">Happy Autumnal Equinox, Everyone</span><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"> </span></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.ebar.com/story.php?319227" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="540" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTIVJaygnKTdnHBbqBVIhc7xW3GMjZnn3qYbJksn1EUEgmIWtF72urlboPOKuXTXI-x83lfnRzYhiLkTUpL3sgGEe0rKQqZQiH-GinRWMI9tsNM5wfPrR8mRddCvQjVebvVvEYHRLEe2a3XLIHQyzT064e9llENnxvpFO2VQJVRLgk_Wi71WBTdGLI/w400-h400/IMG_5904.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-79449078021533859662022-09-19T16:46:00.001-07:002022-09-21T17:01:20.394-07:00Reunion Tower, Dallas Texas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG1fHhVpMUIryvOg7VT0Rk6j1oFP01cBiL8T-WgaKkooizJp9kPTT4RaNQLtlU1XHgakPDJjpem7BHMoaUl3k2EuxltkUnRrFZ_nwHoKt5Bw_9r2d0rSVZnwoCacyS7LkA_cGG8opT24Qzw_6StX0TIV-eBZ1lmrJWNhL7Kl1Iy4rdpQhtdt6tlWi/s2100/ReunionTower%C2%A9NHalm2022_6312.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1680" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG1fHhVpMUIryvOg7VT0Rk6j1oFP01cBiL8T-WgaKkooizJp9kPTT4RaNQLtlU1XHgakPDJjpem7BHMoaUl3k2EuxltkUnRrFZ_nwHoKt5Bw_9r2d0rSVZnwoCacyS7LkA_cGG8opT24Qzw_6StX0TIV-eBZ1lmrJWNhL7Kl1Iy4rdpQhtdt6tlWi/w512-h640/ReunionTower%C2%A9NHalm2022_6312.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">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.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #999999;">There will be a lot more work to come from my time in Dallas, work that I'm very happy with: </span></span></i><a href="http://photographmaker.blogspot.com/2022/09/new-project-coming-soon-turtle-creek.html"></a><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #999999;">New Project Coming Soon: </span><u><a href="http://photographmaker.blogspot.com/2022/09/new-project-coming-soon-turtle-creek.html"><span style="color: #999999;">Turtle Creek- A Sacred Water Body In Dallas Texas</span></a></u></i></span><i><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><a href="http://photographmaker.blogspot.com/2022/09/new-project-coming-soon-turtle-creek.html"></a></span></i>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-88570262113640211582022-09-02T12:13:00.001-07:002022-09-11T19:49:33.259-07:00New Project Coming Soon: Turtle Creek- A Sacred Water Body In Dallas Texas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn5p-oht4FV0GDDPnm0iFIA2mMuFm-1vkfEL9YupHS4TrF83VcjYG0upZ7Pd4l4kvyKnqjTT4ia9sdoGW_e23bq8tpehbUPkHp3nWYFJgLeIizWfP60Q69A4yMydJEv9TXehQvIzeXSAvybDlaiThr8OTAQ0UtTadyrLCks3EDNI-yNSQWk-Ju--1E/s2100/UnderTheBridgeX%C2%A92021NHalm_5555%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2100" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn5p-oht4FV0GDDPnm0iFIA2mMuFm-1vkfEL9YupHS4TrF83VcjYG0upZ7Pd4l4kvyKnqjTT4ia9sdoGW_e23bq8tpehbUPkHp3nWYFJgLeIizWfP60Q69A4yMydJEv9TXehQvIzeXSAvybDlaiThr8OTAQ0UtTadyrLCks3EDNI-yNSQWk-Ju--1E/w400-h286/UnderTheBridgeX%C2%A92021NHalm_5555%20copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></i><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;">Under The Bridge</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;">Turtle Creek, Dallas Texas</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvHofzQSjIyD_WeOeyUbOVqgugXx_lOndfsgL4zfsuxQ_aO9DmW99UZlJgEC7ufaR9o3PWq4FsAhHSSDYuyCAASRVDFcyCxw8rIkQX17tvWNYGKnFYouT2DBeDswS3OsU62ClnlSWIYzz47kL5V6QcLTj-9zmH5NsJ1dgQT8yKbC5kS4sXXogESHzk/s2100/WaterPortal%C2%A9NHalm2022_6620%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1260" data-original-width="2100" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvHofzQSjIyD_WeOeyUbOVqgugXx_lOndfsgL4zfsuxQ_aO9DmW99UZlJgEC7ufaR9o3PWq4FsAhHSSDYuyCAASRVDFcyCxw8rIkQX17tvWNYGKnFYouT2DBeDswS3OsU62ClnlSWIYzz47kL5V6QcLTj-9zmH5NsJ1dgQT8yKbC5kS4sXXogESHzk/w400-h240/WaterPortal%C2%A9NHalm2022_6620%20copy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;">Water Portal</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;">Turtle Creek, Dallas Texas</span></i></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: #666666; font-family: times; text-align: left;">Turtle Creek- A Sacred Water Body In Dallas Texas</i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; text-align: left;">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.</span></span></div>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-12484295620181849382022-08-26T16:10:00.085-07:002022-09-26T06:42:23.791-07:00Goodbye, Texas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmhf3DdV453aoDc4m8B7UKvaTkAkkcPaBbwiKPh8_LSXuGnZI8WhA3ll_z-PZl4Wrdjdz1s7fuhB6jIN1ZWgm7SDuSzKiKPMA_cTEyHlHAINmQcgdyPLF523qeSH4Vaq9QbnKycSXG6zJiW18Eki-FJm35uvpPXhUbVoTec-ye9jcVx7Ktxma_5qel/s2100/PlayboyNeon_%C2%A9NHalm2022_6372.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="1400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmhf3DdV453aoDc4m8B7UKvaTkAkkcPaBbwiKPh8_LSXuGnZI8WhA3ll_z-PZl4Wrdjdz1s7fuhB6jIN1ZWgm7SDuSzKiKPMA_cTEyHlHAINmQcgdyPLF523qeSH4Vaq9QbnKycSXG6zJiW18Eki-FJm35uvpPXhUbVoTec-ye9jcVx7Ktxma_5qel/w426-h640/PlayboyNeon_%C2%A9NHalm2022_6372.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><i>Neon <a href="https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2013-11-14/controversial-playboy-marfa-sculpture-moving-from-west-texas-to-dallas">"Playboy Marfa"</a> Sculpture by </i><span style="color: #444444; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://gagosian.com/artists/richard-phillips/">Richard Phillips</a></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;">Photo by Norm Halm</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dallasites101/posts/theres-a-playground-of-murals-in-the-design-district-for-all-the-photos-and-fun-/5074164685942020/">Dallas Design District Playground</a></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Today we started the drive to our new home in Minneapolis-Saint Paul Minnesota with Texas gleefully in the rear view mirror. THANK YOU for a solid three years, Dallas-Forth Worth. The lives we carved out for ourselves in the DFW metroplex was a safe haven to weather the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Hindsight is 20/20 though; we couldn't have known this when we moved to North Texas the year before but we knew we had to move away from Las Vegas preemptively before any kind of economic downturn. We chose to come to Tejas, hopeful with open hearts and minds for positive change on the horizon for us and for Texas.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Alas, the political climate deteriorated instead and so our time in Texas has run its course. We never would have moved to TX in the first place without certain protections provided by the federal umbrella, via judicial rulings and precedents, which this year have reached a fever pitch of attack by the state's rabid conservative majority legislative and executive branches. Just yesterday, Texas' trigger ban on abortion in reaction to SCOTUS' Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision went into effect, outlawing bodily autonomy outright for pregnant people, from the moment of conception, with no exceptions for rape or incest, and threatening the lives of women experiencing dangerous complications with their wanted pregnancies. This isn't a pro-life measure, it is religiofascism-- FULL STOP-- </i><b style="font-style: italic;">religiofascism</b><i>. This is why some dissenters refer to the governor, attorney general, lieutenant governor and so many of the state </i></span><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><span><i style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">legislators as "The Texas Taliban"; the state is rife with relgiofascism. Some lawmakers are even moving to introduce bills prohibiting pregnant women from traveling outside the state in case they are </i><i>seeking</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> abortion care: <b>RELIGIOFASCISM</b>. </i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Even if SCOTUS hadn't signaled that marriage equality and other federally guaranteed rites could also be on the chopping block, attacks on the LGBT+ community from rabid conservative lawmakers have been ramping up in Texas and I don't want to live in any state that outlaws abortion anyway.</i></span><i style="font-size: x-large;"> </i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>So we're taking our talent and passion, our labor and dedication, our taxes and disposable income to a state that has already voluntarily enshrined, through the legislative process, these basic rights to privacy, into state law; we're moving to a state that isn't controlled by garbage people</b>.</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i>Aside from sabotaging the people of Texas by weaponizing religion and waging culture wars, helping no one, the mismanagement of the power grid alone would have been reason enough to leave for our safety. </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666;">We nearly froze in our own home during the freeze of 2021. We were stuck, surrounded by impassable roads, so I boiled bricks found in the alley, wrapped them in towels and put them under our blankets to stay warm. (The irony of resorting to 19th century tactics while living in Texas wasn't lost on me.) It was 33 degrees F</i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><i>ahrenheit</i></span></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666;"> in our home for approximately 48 hours. </i><i style="color: #666666;">Hundreds of other people and animals had it worse and died as a direct result of derelict leadership and the power grid failure. Perhaps thousands died if we consider how many livestock perished. Yet little has been done to fix it! Some essentially performative bills were passed; bills that posture reforms yet allow some of the governor's friends in the natural gas business off the hook with an exemption to winterize their </i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><i>infrastructure...</i></span></span><i style="color: #666666;"> By paying a menial </i><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><i>application</i></span></span><i style="color: #666666;"> fee of $150, they can simply opt out of making updates that would make the grid reliable and safe. This tragedy was also an opportunity for the governor to spread disinformation against the growing wind power industry in TX, blaming the blackout on that market, even though it was proven that the failure of natural gas infrastructure played a MUCH bigger role in the grid's failure. Corruption and personal gain for good 'ol boy Greg Abbott and his oil and gas cronies-- the lives of Texans is the risk they're willing to take to keep the convoluted economic structures behind the TX power grid from changing, thus continuing to enrich his friends and himself.</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: #666666;"><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: #666666;">The detailed grievances above impacted my household directly and are just the tip of the iceberg concerning the harms done to Texans by Texans. There are so many more cons about living in Texas that outweigh the pros of living there: Attacks on voting rights and access, including state sanctioned violations of the federal Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. Lack of affordable housing and de facto segregation, especially in schools. </i></span><i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Racist gerrymandering. </span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: #666666;">More attacks on LGBT+ people. The abuse of migrants and human rights crimes committed against asylum seekers. Despite bragging otherwise, Texas republicans are </i><span style="color: #666666;">soft</span><i style="color: #666666;"> on crime (gun violence </i><span style="color: #666666;">IS</span><i style="color: #666666;"> crime) by making it easier for all people, including criminals, to obtain, possess and carry firearms. Mental healthcare support was cut just months before the massacre in Uvalde, TX- in a state that's already sorely lacking in access to mental healthcare services. </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: #666666;">The overarching cultural current of chauvinism including but not limited to </i><i style="color: #666666;">disdain for the environment and conservation in favor of exploitation and extraction. </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: #666666;">Even MORE attacks on LGBT+ folks. </i><span><i style="color: #666666;">Citizens and state lawmakers who sympathize with The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, the rise in white nationalism, </i><span style="color: #666666;"><i>christian</i></span><i style="color: #666666;"> nationalism and terrorist militia groups in Texas. This is still not an exhaustive list, not by far. I understand that many of these problems exist to some degree nationwide including within states that overall trend center to very liberal. </i></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span><i style="color: #666666;">But in Texas, the scourge of chauvinism, nationalism, religiofascism and white supremacy are underpins. They're part and parcel of</i><i style="color: #666666;"> the Texas </i><span style="color: #666666;"><span><i>gestalt</i></span></span><i style="color: #666666;"> and identity, </i></span><i style="color: #666666;">persisting well beyond the critical threshold effectively </i><i style="color: #666666;">forming a majority represented, pulling the strings at the Texas State House and in Washington D.C. </i><span style="color: #666666;"><span><i>Despite all of this, there </i>are<i> a lot of good people in Tejas, </i></span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><i>unfortunately the leadership scarcely represents that. </i></span></span><i style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">The good people of Tejas are effectively outnumbered and the state is controlled by terrible people.</span> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i>Having</i><i style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> now lived in both the </i><span><i>country's largest blue state and the country's largest red state has offered a whole lot of valuable perspective. Some of my own views have softened and shifted as a result of getting to know different people in Texas, being there in person and having a direct lived experience. At the same time, some of my previously held views have only been reinforced by my experiences there. There's something to be said for fighting the good fight; for staying and "being the change" in a place. But we've done the math again and again and for my family unit, the odds are against us. The risks are too high, the prospects are too low for us in TX. So we left.</i></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">My conclusion is that Tejas and Texas are two different places and different ways of being that, unfortunately, overlap in time and geography. And that </span><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Texas' shitty conservative politics aren't the answer to California's shitty politics.</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></i></span><i style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don't regret moving to Texas- I learned a lot, made friends, grew some righteous natives in my little pollinator garden, sent love into the waters of Turtle Creek and did some other good works too. I don't regret moving to Texas but I would regret having stayed there. Living and dying in Tejas just isn't an option for me; when my time comes, I need my bones to rest in a better patch of earth than Texas.</span></i></div><p><br /></p>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-9949293939987347452022-03-24T11:23:00.007-07:002022-09-02T11:32:14.290-07:00Mausoleum Walls, New Orleans <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBSE7qofdrrqt_J3JpGClj-Wh_Vre4XbbIaAFhLKAkZuCSnG_KiEcvsVFT0rj399nMs_uoikDdjBZ1989zwnTS48Q_-YgVU8Xy-w2dVixQnP3zjzenxFgT51E3ny-3XZwqgbRLQvDJ_BU3YirNJ7nMp69H3ETak5PZt451gFycrdE25rSFit_2cmW/s3000/Column%C2%A9NHalm032022_2454.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2250" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFBSE7qofdrrqt_J3JpGClj-Wh_Vre4XbbIaAFhLKAkZuCSnG_KiEcvsVFT0rj399nMs_uoikDdjBZ1989zwnTS48Q_-YgVU8Xy-w2dVixQnP3zjzenxFgT51E3ny-3XZwqgbRLQvDJ_BU3YirNJ7nMp69H3ETak5PZt451gFycrdE25rSFit_2cmW/w480-h640/Column%C2%A9NHalm032022_2454.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;"><i>Crumbling Mausoleum Walls</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;"><i>New Orleans, Louisiana </i></span></div><br /><p></p>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-18813280788374036572021-09-12T10:49:00.001-07:002022-09-02T11:16:33.403-07:00Remembering The Mojave Desert <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKr7lTAYd7UNBmAztCWuJa_eTz76t__ZPFOFB8DU0PhBxbH2L4LjVe97OQp45WwtKOPRqeHefd9WtE1FEmNthxT97u_NRos5oO-eD4D3AvnGIkIxB_HN6e3g2bvV9MDwAv3zjVHXqPQNB7SaCQwEnsfBlauzBelZAeXr9pcDh6ULzBmNMeBuU7Fme2/s6400/AmargosaHotel%C2%A92016NHalm_602.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4267" data-original-width="6400" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKr7lTAYd7UNBmAztCWuJa_eTz76t__ZPFOFB8DU0PhBxbH2L4LjVe97OQp45WwtKOPRqeHefd9WtE1FEmNthxT97u_NRos5oO-eD4D3AvnGIkIxB_HN6e3g2bvV9MDwAv3zjVHXqPQNB7SaCQwEnsfBlauzBelZAeXr9pcDh6ULzBmNMeBuU7Fme2/w400-h266/AmargosaHotel%C2%A92016NHalm_602.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><i>Amargosa Museum, Through The Windows At Nighttime </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;">Death Valley Junction, California</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlkW8aa2QFsRXASNN7ftp7Mdy6yleP3W1rVGng7jtS4RiaiWYS2j2pGukIgRpJJf7GCPA1H_rAP5LZHZoFfFLP0Vxua3ggQIK7qmnlzycFAr8s9cpobFXm54TVW-iSEfw8hKxCq8lMhOTWU6C45c56wAeF3meffQFbvYJcb51605AKVqGuaCH-4fDM/s6201/AmargosaCatHotel%C2%A92016NHalm_613.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-size: medium;">Death Valley Junction, California </span></i></div><br /><i><br /></i></span></div><br />Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-78371340593874328612021-07-30T10:19:00.001-07:002022-09-02T10:46:00.655-07:00Scenes From The Tiny Jungle<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxOb8WRkWdUMaMXk_aNW5e0Po6RrXpLny9bAxOo7xRQ17z7GY4bYloITMnl9YSKXnUbv17l_rkl7wOehxuNEZSdG72vTCzv4sE5pWa0Z4qt62ldtD1WeQM_oNZo6Aa0BCArTt0ZOtVKaunJrPhArsn590uHxu_2RpBFQq6FdrE01QJfejPvM-N98wL/s3000/DalyCityDiptych%C2%A9NHalm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxOb8WRkWdUMaMXk_aNW5e0Po6RrXpLny9bAxOo7xRQ17z7GY4bYloITMnl9YSKXnUbv17l_rkl7wOehxuNEZSdG72vTCzv4sE5pWa0Z4qt62ldtD1WeQM_oNZo6Aa0BCArTt0ZOtVKaunJrPhArsn590uHxu_2RpBFQq6FdrE01QJfejPvM-N98wL/w400-h400/DalyCityDiptych%C2%A9NHalm.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i>Empty Greenhouses Diptych</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times;"><i>180 degree pivot views; on the left looking west and on the right looking east</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: x-large;"><i>The Tiny Jungle</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: times; font-size: x-large;"><i>An exotic plants nursery in Daly City California</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #666666; font-family: times; font-size: large; font-style: italic;">Two Bell Terrariums</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102); color: #666666; font-family: times; font-style: italic;">A pictorialist detail</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-17164367704472502822021-04-25T09:38:00.003-07:002022-09-02T11:19:46.469-07:00Natives Garden on Throckmorton & Rawlins, Oak Lawn Neighborhood, Dallas TX<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigIL0vl10OS64yOFRxnDFC5IlzKZC4kyaFCRVhS95BysqyFkYS-CkmR3GK0ZjGH4FrOV0pvmvd70mvqjprQJWg5Ef3Ch8Elg7T9EEw2lzIm4NESzuut5YUBFCI_khdtAwhl2uGI6IF7RpsrxLa2ATfIj-EBP_I4nm4eprZsyFWmA-p7BLmGs8PpGPX" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigIL0vl10OS64yOFRxnDFC5IlzKZC4kyaFCRVhS95BysqyFkYS-CkmR3GK0ZjGH4FrOV0pvmvd70mvqjprQJWg5Ef3Ch8Elg7T9EEw2lzIm4NESzuut5YUBFCI_khdtAwhl2uGI6IF7RpsrxLa2ATfIj-EBP_I4nm4eprZsyFWmA-p7BLmGs8PpGPX=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #444444;">My urban natives garden showing lyreleaf sage, golden groundsel, frog fruit and the red mulberry tree. Also in the garden but not shown here: American beauty berry, Turk's cap, Texas bluebonnet (state flower), coreopsis, black eyed Susan.</span></i></div><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; font-size: large;">Even in a time or place when the humans are a big letdown, it's always getting to know the native plants that makes a place feel like home to me.</span><p></p><p><span style="color: #666666; font-family: times; font-size: large;">No matter where you live, it's always the native plants who have been there the longest of all the persons; of the two-legged persons, four-legged persons, winged persons or the no-legged-at-all persons, it doesn't matter- the native plants have been there the longest and they always know the most about how to properly BE in the place.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: x-large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAgcB2DRMHVd-TbubUoWANPJyT31EtqTwWU1mK-O85v2Zlvvf7fbGURsoiU9Ua1DxZeUox2olkRVCGsnwfNLb6dHCuNy2M8g1XYNkVtp5Kt8JYM7tC4MtMsaowG8b9V6rrzWVSQlbDavpfNgB2wTde1xnNJiyHOtWJrJUq3Nh5925YFPjnbmeSJskb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2143" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgAgcB2DRMHVd-TbubUoWANPJyT31EtqTwWU1mK-O85v2Zlvvf7fbGURsoiU9Ua1DxZeUox2olkRVCGsnwfNLb6dHCuNy2M8g1XYNkVtp5Kt8JYM7tC4MtMsaowG8b9V6rrzWVSQlbDavpfNgB2wTde1xnNJiyHOtWJrJUq3Nh5925YFPjnbmeSJskb=w456-h640" width="456" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i>Native Texas backland prairie restoration effort in Oak Cliff Texas</i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpk_Vp_OCXPWBlgahwFLEmL7zGSBMbCq1ZM4tD2Bw7tekZnBgXC4WFRDuoKUsKgI-FwAwTatWShHLSG2cSsX00tnArpJmynr0CWysFlu3HcErOPGrVnT7R_2oJCLFFg4HBfdLT3-KHZBWhzEKWBYM5J3lEKmVuuuK7yn_YClXcvInu803QS5eTAGyh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpk_Vp_OCXPWBlgahwFLEmL7zGSBMbCq1ZM4tD2Bw7tekZnBgXC4WFRDuoKUsKgI-FwAwTatWShHLSG2cSsX00tnArpJmynr0CWysFlu3HcErOPGrVnT7R_2oJCLFFg4HBfdLT3-KHZBWhzEKWBYM5J3lEKmVuuuK7yn_YClXcvInu803QS5eTAGyh=w267-h400" width="267" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Texas bluebonnets (state flower) on the side of the road near the Oak Lawn exit on route 35. One of the most endearing things about living in Texas is (using the word "y'all" obviously, and) how much the locals adore the fleeting bluebonnet season.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqJeQ7d1g0vz_cL5ZV85q0Ug741dVKGf_4VscrKxJxBorlFV7pQDBBVQhN2lcaDA7r_qURb_z7VTLATJQIyfI4HSiHzAnFDkQz7a-uzWg7a2wLNJdjvMdx3xc3f6KBU1iuf1Z0fBNZldOtlA3zBPDM0O_m2B_nL3zcOYpQYXlV04L0ZqHbkcI24PCh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="2100" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqJeQ7d1g0vz_cL5ZV85q0Ug741dVKGf_4VscrKxJxBorlFV7pQDBBVQhN2lcaDA7r_qURb_z7VTLATJQIyfI4HSiHzAnFDkQz7a-uzWg7a2wLNJdjvMdx3xc3f6KBU1iuf1Z0fBNZldOtlA3zBPDM0O_m2B_nL3zcOYpQYXlV04L0ZqHbkcI24PCh=w400-h400" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Our sycamore tree on the summer solstice, 2020</div><br /></div></i></span></span></div>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-39488825034449840622021-01-22T05:30:00.002-08:002021-01-22T05:30:01.559-08:00BOTANICAL Exhibition at Photoplace Gallery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6LVsdfRjbaxbtSLNPi8u9t_ca0LVPkqghFMN47vAyqRXZJQArRqXH5WhFqEilFc0sDjQZzCSfFzU3XlFL6wV_vZP5FHr8O_6j-Ljca34_2F5-lwayFbSiMGV1jqSxV8yhZPLQ2F3AOM/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1623" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF6LVsdfRjbaxbtSLNPi8u9t_ca0LVPkqghFMN47vAyqRXZJQArRqXH5WhFqEilFc0sDjQZzCSfFzU3XlFL6wV_vZP5FHr8O_6j-Ljca34_2F5-lwayFbSiMGV1jqSxV8yhZPLQ2F3AOM/w507-h640/4_SKL_4109%25C2%25A9NHalm2018+copy+4.jpg" width="507" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #999999; font-family: georgia;">Cholla Cactus, Mojave Desert</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #999999; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Photo by Norm Halm featured in juried exhibition of photography called </span><u><span style="text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://photoplacegallery.com/online-juried-shows/botanical/"><span>BOTANICAL</span></a></span></u><span> at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury Vermont from Janu</span></span></i><i style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>ary 29 to February 19, 2021</span></span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i>This picture means so much to me. It's emblematic of some of the happiest years of my life. Living in the Mojave Desert inspired a profoundly deep sense of love, gratitude and reverence for Nature that resulted in one of my most productive photography periods. It was the desert itself – the Mojave specifically – giving me life. Distinct from the Great Basin Desert to the north and the Sonoran Desert to the south, it is at once welcoming, hostile or both, but only in reciprocity to the level of respect, or lack thereof, that we hold as we tread on its land. Don't get it twisted, the Mojave is a living system: not empty, not a barren wasteland, not a dumping ground or a throw away backdrop for influencers or music videos. It is a nonhuman personhood in its own right and deserves to thrive and be in peace, regardless of what we can or can't extract from it. #MojaveDesertLove</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><div class="separator" style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivEyEA5NueGpMU4VVI72cfL1OjBIfWtOnSrwboCZt_xQmGhHrAtZMInUyq8zxQ6wbqAzn5w5agTkW4HwU0zeqb9PRu0e_b2eQz5bba-XA_fxl8FYXhxjevkc2ZXL0nfyI64luRObPqHfk/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1828" data-original-width="1899" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivEyEA5NueGpMU4VVI72cfL1OjBIfWtOnSrwboCZt_xQmGhHrAtZMInUyq8zxQ6wbqAzn5w5agTkW4HwU0zeqb9PRu0e_b2eQz5bba-XA_fxl8FYXhxjevkc2ZXL0nfyI64luRObPqHfk/w400-h386/Screen+Shot+2021-01-03+at+6.58.22+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div></span></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><i><a href="https://www.blurb.com/b/10522842-botanical-hardcover-imagewrap">Exhibition Catalog Available Here</a></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><span>Cover Photo by </span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://debehrens.com"><span style="color: #666666;">Deb Ehrens</span></a></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://leeannewhite.com"><span style="color: #666666;">Lee Anne White</span></a><span style="color: #666666;">, Juror</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="color: #666666;"><br /></i></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i>Juror's Statement: What a wonderful experience this was—spending time surrounded by beautiful, creative, expressive and often surprising photographs of the plants that fill your world and the unique ways in which you see them, connect with them and share them with others.<br /><br /></i></span><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i>And what a challenging experience it was. With a large number of entries, first impressions were important, but the selected photographs had staying power, as well. They not only captured my gaze and sense of curiosity, but kept me coming back. One of the greatest challenges in photographing plants and flowers is getting beyond the beauty of the subject to create a photograph that is powerful in its own right. And yet, mastery of composition, form, lighting and exposure isn’t enough either. I sought images that had that something extra—that expressed a mood, captured a moment in time, told a story or showcased the unique character of a plant. Some are elegant, others are joyful, many are tender. Some are powerful in their simplicity; others proved their ability to wrangle nature’s chaos into an organized composition. Some are very quiet; others are an explosion of color. They run the gamut from romantic to scientific to artistic to cultural. The sheer diversity drove much of my decision making when it came to selecting images for the two galleries.<br /><br />In choosing award winners, I returned to the call for entry. The photographs had to put the plants first—to capture their spirit or unique characteristics; to show how they help create a sense of place; or to embody the deep, emotional connections we have with them.<br /><br />Thank you to all for sharing your work, your world, our world. There is so much to be said for slowing down and taking a closer look at the beauty around us.<br /><br />— Lee Anne White</i></span><br /></div>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-3470136152512809472021-01-17T18:07:00.000-08:002021-01-17T18:07:18.208-08:00From The Vault: Skull Detail & Ram's Horn<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-XwLFl2IeubMJROImafYRCwnA1LGXEstzD12DIBAgrrHzmGNiyHnZSkIYdPDVYKtRx9_3mWHIvRHVz_ynL-Mejd6RwJ96O6tZ5GVrjZlRABBAdL8IXXvRP8bVJKJBtpuWbM6dUifVl4/" style="display: inline !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="950" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH0oz7Clv1sFc6gnH4htLl3dAyPyOkX6il-4g5OjO3bBVMYlG3ho8LtyBESjJlk-7sbKw-K8RW03JcOvDfbfogMyxl-m3XxZ68hUISghBAqdu2FIG5F-FVuEeA9tATOFdEFcFf09s65k8/w254-h400/Skull+Detail-01+copy.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><div style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-XwLFl2IeubMJROImafYRCwnA1LGXEstzD12DIBAgrrHzmGNiyHnZSkIYdPDVYKtRx9_3mWHIvRHVz_ynL-Mejd6RwJ96O6tZ5GVrjZlRABBAdL8IXXvRP8bVJKJBtpuWbM6dUifVl4/" style="display: inline !important; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1470" data-original-width="1219" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie-XwLFl2IeubMJROImafYRCwnA1LGXEstzD12DIBAgrrHzmGNiyHnZSkIYdPDVYKtRx9_3mWHIvRHVz_ynL-Mejd6RwJ96O6tZ5GVrjZlRABBAdL8IXXvRP8bVJKJBtpuWbM6dUifVl4/w333-h400/Ram%2527s+Horn-01+copy.jpg" width="333" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #999999; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Top- Skull Detail, 1999</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #999999; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bottom- Ram's Horn, 2000</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="color: #999999; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;">I can't believe </i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><i>that</i></span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"> it was over 20 years ago that I made these pictures, up all night on in-love and inspired evenings at a historic and beloved photography studio in the Hayes Valley </i><span style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><i>neighborhood</i></span></span><i style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"> of San Francisco.</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i style="color: #666666; font-family: georgia;"><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;">Film and hot lights. Dynalite strobes. Wet darkroom prints.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="color: #999999; font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div></div><p></p>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-66902357971302039792021-01-03T14:04:00.001-08:002021-01-03T14:10:09.259-08:00FINDING THE LIGHT Exhibition at Photoplace Gallery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmusHcUqYaxs1VqBjPmJGV8-EpDqa7nXuSpDJEZrN30Pid59EAODC4iw7TDgZLMPf2oYrPAU6W2dpcSxKujZNQmP_DPx3hqDpDmBSEHZBtcn9JhF_54-7KBNdyYCOUkN2xtPVB1rUa6CY/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmusHcUqYaxs1VqBjPmJGV8-EpDqa7nXuSpDJEZrN30Pid59EAODC4iw7TDgZLMPf2oYrPAU6W2dpcSxKujZNQmP_DPx3hqDpDmBSEHZBtcn9JhF_54-7KBNdyYCOUkN2xtPVB1rUa6CY/w400-h400/Nativity_4%25C2%25A92016NHalm+copy+2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: georgia;"><i>Nativity Figure, Black Friday, San Diego</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">Photo by Norm Halm featured in juried exhibition of photography called </span><u><a href="https://photoplacegallery.com/online-juried-shows/finding-the-light-2/"><span style="color: #999999;">FINDING THE LIGHT</span></a></u><span style="color: #666666;"> at PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury Vermont from December 31, 2020 to January 21, 2021</span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;"><br /></span></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUuZbqM1DuBkwePpYRyrAd4qIKPoqCv3pszeglpWpmLHt2jq7Ycc7nsfGDCs_oJDKP4HFj2uFAlrN630OAlMkrHxtGwsGElF_IIOed6CwMI6pFQaF8-qT6jvj7I609oXh3l1VNO0diZzI/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1828" data-original-width="1899" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUuZbqM1DuBkwePpYRyrAd4qIKPoqCv3pszeglpWpmLHt2jq7Ycc7nsfGDCs_oJDKP4HFj2uFAlrN630OAlMkrHxtGwsGElF_IIOed6CwMI6pFQaF8-qT6jvj7I609oXh3l1VNO0diZzI/w400-h386/Screen+Shot+2020-12-30+at+10.11.17+PM.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><u><a href="https://www.blurb.com/b/10481795-finding-the-light-hardcover-imagewrap"><span style="color: #666666;">Exhibition Catalog Available Here</span></a></u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999;">Cover Photo by <a href="https://lichtyears.com"><span style="color: #999999;">Susan Licht</span></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lenscratch.com/2014/06/laura-moya-mixtape/"><span style="color: #999999;">Laura Moya, Juror</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: large;">Juror's Statement</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"><i style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #70726f; text-align: left;">I recently geographically transitioned from the Pacific Northwest to the Southwest, and consequently have been very attuned to the differences in light. That, combined with the slow days of pandemic isolation, has given me the space and time to feel how light shifts throughout the hours and how that effects one’s psyche. It was a natural sidestep to immerse myself into the consideration of images submitted to Finding the Light (while some kind of political/cultural metaphor hovered nearby – how does one find the light in these times?). </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"><i style="color: #70726f; text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic; text-align: justify;"><i style="color: #70726f; text-align: left;">Illuminate (15<span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span>c) is from the Latin <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">illūmināre,</span> to light up; from <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">lumen, </span>light. The Italian language gives us <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">illuminata, illuminare, illuminarsi, illuminazione</span>.</i></div></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(112, 114, 111); color: #70726f; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><i style="color: #70726f; font-family: georgia;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Illuminate means to make lucid or clear, to make shining, to reveal details. In looking at the submissions, I was pulled into scenarios where something was being explained to me, a story was being told with the length of light waves. In the end, images that explored an unknown angle, a fleeting dimension, held my interest – light has power to turn an ordinary spot extraordinary. A great many images used light to craft an image – patience is needed for this. Or, an expert eye that can fit it into a strong composition super-quick. Thank you to the artists for doing the work and bringing so many interpretations of illumination to the table.</i></div></i></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(112, 114, 111); color: #70726f; font-family: georgia; font-style: italic;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #70726f; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>-Laura Moya</i></span></p></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /></div></div>Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-76271433735384170782020-09-22T06:20:00.000-07:002020-09-22T06:20:40.591-07:00Happy Autumnal Equinox <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXO8xle4-r5H0VZwTnF_AxbLzx4c2tG0QhxnJfECDJEbT3Laapn049nBYbaXPucl3XwD82nVBxacfxkkU2HdfavGm2hzz3c2ZH_vOeAfhrlmg63_BmUjqz-nte4ArUXtMVqESizxuCKj4/" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Years back. Both were unplanned stumbled upon “gifts of the commonplace” moments, as one sage photographer put it. Both pics were made with one iPhone or another. I love them. Photography for myself if nothing else. 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Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-54283920901437482442019-06-14T17:24:00.000-07:002019-06-14T17:24:29.811-07:00Throwback: Christmastime In The Mojave Desert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="color: #444444;">Some lonely road on the Nevada California border.</span><span style="color: #741b47;"> </span></i></span></div>
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Norm Halmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10727516073119942729noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3505981730654848567.post-38282020059552427122019-05-31T20:00:00.000-07:002019-06-12T19:20:28.096-07:00Mojave Desert Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>Anyone who’s gotten too close knows that the cholla cactus is as pernicious as it is beautiful. Precisely like the Mojave Desert itself.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>This little sphere of barbed spines, dropped from a full-size cactus and bound to eventually create an entirely new cactus, did indeed attack my model. But @sergio_escobar_ig, toughed through it and remained gracious with me so we could get this picture made 🖤</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>I’ve been coming back to this picture a lot lately. It’s one of my favorite photos I made living in the desert. I hope that prickly nugget found the right spot to hunker down and grow. </i></span></span></div>
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