1: Makers
Artists and Other Creators of Beautiful Objects
Actors, 2017
The Last Train to Nibroc by Arlene Hutton was performed at Santa Barbara's Center Stage Theater, April 13-15, 2017. Directed by Nita Davanzo and starring Justin Davanzo and Ming Lauren Holden, the play begins on a cross-country train headed east in 1940. A young serviceman - recently discharged after being diagnosed with epilepsy, but still wearing his uniform - is chatting up a traveling small town girl from Kentucky, recently disappointed in love. It's a mating dance of two young people from a change-resistant town, both buffeted by the war and the shifting face of America, particularly as it relates to expectations for women.
Art Loft, 2015
The studio of David Andrew Davis in Los Angeles, California.
Ragnar Hayn, 2015
Ragnar Hayn, a luthier in Berlin, was one of the subjects of study for a Leica workshop.
Materia Ceramica, 2018
Materia Ceramica was on the itinerary for a Leica workshop in Perugia, Italy led by Adam Marelli. The owner/ceramicist graciously allowed us full access to her workshop, where she dips, paints, and glazes all pieces by hand.
Nils Thomsen, 2015
Pipemaker Nils Thomsen - a pipe maker for more than forty years, was one of the subjects of study for a Leica workshop in Berlin.
Woodworker, 2015
Inside the Santa Barbara, California woodworking studio of Mark Swank.
2: art|WORK
art|WORK was a project executed in 2015 that focused on women artists making a living through their art. It addressed the intersection of art and money to illuminate the difficulties many female artists face trying to earn a living through their creative endeavors.
art|WORK: Lucy Harvey
Lucy Harvey is a Santa Barbara-based artist whose work helps fuel imagination and serves as a metaphor for both the unconscious mind and collective memory. Her sculptures are created from shards of glass entwined beautifully with melted and blown glass.
art|WORK: Michelle Chapin
Michelle Chapin has been a working California artist for more than 30 years. Her Ventura, California studio serves as a base for her own work as well as a showcase for other local artists. As a stone sculptor, she quarries many of the rare rocks used in her work from Southern California deserts. She works primarily on public and private commissions and teaches stone sculpture to Youth At Risk and for private clients.
art|WORK: Nancy Taliaferro
Nancy Taliaferro, born in Baltimore, is the daughter and granddaughter of painters and studied classical painting techniques from an early age at The Schuler’s School of Fine Art. She continued her studies at The Maryland Institute of Art and received her BFA from The Philadelphia University of the Arts. Taliaferro is moved by the vulnerability of the natural world and is interested in the common thread that connects humans, animals, and all of nature. Through visual metaphor she examines this common thread and pushes the feelings her subjects evoke through unexpected juxtapositions; both are sacred, yet together they can be oddly funny. She is excited by this tension and seeks to explore earthly life - the tragic and beautiful, the sacred and the ludicrous.
3: Hunting and Fishing
Hunting: Walking and shooting
Fishing: Sitting still and shooting
Here and There
Shots taken over the years throughout the world.
Croatia, 2023
