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12 Top Images From Global Warning

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Request the Catalog here. View the Gallery Talk here. Click each image for more information. Global Warning XII . Global Warning I . Global Warning XXXI . Global Warning XV . Global Warning VII . Global Warning VI . Global Warning VIII . Global Warning XXXV . Global Warning XXXIII . Global Warning XXXII . Global Warning XVII . Global Warning XXIX . Global Warning XIII . Global Warning XXVIII This is a preliminary selection of top images from my series Global Warning. Why preliminary? The first set of images I've released are all drawn from Antarctica. New releases will draw on sources as distant as Greenland, Iceland, Morocco, Namibia, and the United States. Sign up for my newsletter for announcements! View the Gallery Talk here. ...

Global Warning

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.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } . Global Warning Catalog coming soon. Explore the series here. .. Global Warning I keep having these dreams. I’ve had them my whole life - over and over and over again. The skies are filled with smoke and ash. The land is covered in soot. The water’s run with poisons. Fires rage uncontrollably. Great storms sweep across the lands bringing gale force winds, lightning, and floods. The seas rise. The ice crumbles and retreats. And then there are long long droughts. The deserts spread. These nightmares keep waking me up. I guess that’s what they’re for. More and more I wake up and I wonder if I’m still dreaming. I...

16 Studies Influential In The Making Of Global Warning

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Drawing Ink I make many kinds of Studies to explore aspects of my finished Works more deeply. These Studies helped me develop my series Global Warning. . Photograph High Contrast I use drawings to explore generalized ideas and I combine photographs to create more specific compositions. . Drawing B&W Simply drawing compositions helps me find and remember ideas as well as contrast many variations of the same idea. . Drawing Color I use color in drawings to explore varied emotional responses to the same composition. . Drawing Symmetries Drawing symmetries helps me enter more deeply into the mindset necessary to visualize them. . Diagrams Scientific diagrams help make the invisible visible. . . Color Expression Color creates both optical and emotional effects. . Color Gradients I make many variations of simple color fields to discover how many ways color can change over time and...

11 OF My Top Images Of 2020

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Antarctica CCCXXVI Antarctica CCCXIII Antarctica CCCVIII Antarctica CCCIII Antarctica CCCV Land In Land Alignment Reconnaissance LIX Reconnaissance LXVI Reconnaissance LXXI Reconnaissance CV Reconnaissance CXXI This is a preliminary selection of my best images from 2020. Why preliminary? Because there's a new series I produced in 2020 that I'm about to release. Stay tuned! View my best images from other years here. ...

Studies

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https://youtu.be/9bxErr8Hvxs . Studies Request the catalog here. Explore the series here. .. Studies Making images is a form of knowing. And, every media used to make images with is a different way of coming to that understanding. Because they each offer unique experiences and perspectives, I work in many media simultaneously, comparing and contrasting them to get a fuller picture of what’s really there and what more is going on. In the end, I make many studies before distilling them into the new works they bring to completion. I think of them as necessary pieces of a puzzle to find a bigger picture or waypoints of discovery to find a journey’s end. Painters’ and sculptors’ studies are often shared, on some occasions side-by-side with final works in both...

13 Of My Favorite Studies

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Color Gradients I’m always mindful of how color changes over time. Making images is a form of knowing. And, every media used to make images with is a different way of coming to that understanding. Because they each offer unique experiences and perspectives, I work in many media simultaneously, comparing and contrasting them to get a fuller picture of what’s really there and what more is going on. In the end, I make many studies before distilling them into the new works they bring to completion. I think of them as necessary pieces of a puzzle to find a bigger picture or waypoints of discovery to find a journey’s end. . Here are a few of the things I do. . . Color Grids I abstract my images...