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New Monochrome

With a print, I’ll sit with a two-dimensional surface and see tonal variations throughout. I’ll eye lines and shapes and bring meaning to what’s constructed inside my mind.

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Corrugated

Rust covers metal as a blacktop marks an arid plain, tubbing stretches over powdery caleche, mesquites surround valved pumpjacks, and a pickup passes roadside debris outside town.

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Pre-2000

Film photography was a folk art. People wrote with light, and shutters drew simple moments into dark boxes.

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Blues Country

Navasota, Texas

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Cafe

Goldsmith, Texas

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More Art

It takes a beginning to end and ending, and in the end, there’ll be even more.

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Gas Station

Vega, Texas

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Highway 302

West Odessa, Texas

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Theater and Courthouse

Marfa, Texas

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Westbound local

Penwell, Texas

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Standing at the center of it all

Stone clock towers, arched windows, and decorative ornamentation—courthouses center rural counties.

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Queen Theater

Bryan, Texas

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Main Street

White Deer, Texas

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Navasota River

Navasota, Texas

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Head, Foot, and Eye Protection Required

Art galleries come and go, yet artists remain open for a lifetime. There’s no positive answer to my work because it looks like pictures of stuff and is often written off as easy, but it’s thoughts on image assemblage.

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Generation Loss: Image Making in an Age of Over-Saturation

In analog media development, the term “generation loss” refers to the modification of content and reduction of detail when duplicates or multiple generations of copies are created. "Generation Loss" takes the pulse of photography in an age where everyone is a photographer. The show highlights the work of 11 innovative photographers, printmakers, painters, and collage artists utilizing and interpreting photographic content as a primary source for their work.

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Santa Rita No. 1

Texon, Texas

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8x10 View Camera

I shared my 8x10 view camera with people at the Odessa Art Association’s booth at Mural Fest and answered questions. For many, it was their first time seeing a camera like this up close. The camera is fun and laborious, and my job is to prevent the work from overtaking what’s enjoyable.

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Paisano Pete

Fort Stockton, Texas

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Tire Art

Tire Mart’s letter M went missing.