Private Joke

The Photostatic Twentythree 1987

See, before we all had computers, people had to do their graphic design with prestype and photocopiers, drawing with scissors and scotch tape. Or at least I did. Ed found a copier once in someone's trash and called me. We took it to a service shop to see if we could get it going again. My sister, Harriet, staked me the two-hundred-and-some-odd dollars it took to fix the drum and replace the corona wire and in a week I had a photocopier of my own which, in that day, was a very big deal. Someone dubbed it the Sugar Turbine and I got to work printing books for the Twentythree Press (yes - no hyphen) and whatever else I wanted. Happy times.

Exhibition Announcement 2004

Crank It 1999

This mechanical surface fragment was shot with all the pictures of the metal tanks in St. Charles. This wheel controls something. Not sure what.

Rotate & Revolve 2001/2012

Radio Penny Details 2000

It got clear to me upon my one visit to the Radio Penny Studios in the Post Dispatch Building in Downtown St. Louis that Chris Deckard doesn't record music like other people. He was always something of a dapper enigma in his velvet jacket and ruffles; a sort of a Syd Barrett atavism. He did some interesting stuff with Julia Sets. Stuff I didn't understand. I came in contact with him through Rebecca Ryan and the Suite 16 Project. He was recording her tracks for the CD and I was the photographer and designer for the project. Good times.

Binary 2004

Construction No.3 (Crane) 2000

In The Studio 2000

These details were made at the Four Seasons Studios in St. Louis during some sessions for the erstwhile Instar.

The Hollister Airfield Pictures No.1 2008

The Hollister Airfield Pictures No.2 2008

When I went to visit Kris on the Monterrey Peninsula, he had it in mind to send me on a glider tour of the air above Hollister. I'd never done anything like that before but was not opposed to the idea so I did go up in the glider plane and it was all of what you'd expect: exhilarating and fun and a little scary. But while Kris was taking his turn up in the sky, I managed to get a couple rolls of the details of airplanes and such around this great, old airfield there in Hollister.