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On this page you will find a collection of other people's works that influenced this series.
On this page you will find a collection of other people's works that influenced this series.
This song gets in my head frequently when drawing lines across the skies. It also makes me think of Space Force and the next frontier. I wonder what sky or space ownership looks like?
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I use this hashtag on IG frequently when this song is in my head. I grew up with the old country twang version, but love this one by the amazing Ella Fitzgerald.
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"Walls offer the promise of absolute protection, but they almost always fail to deliver. Still, we build them again and again." (Markham, 70)
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The Fence: National Security, Public Safety, and Illegal Immigration Along the U.S.-Mexico Border by Robert Lee Maril
Texas Tech University Press, 2012
"A fundamental issue that Mexican officials have emphasized for decades is only beginning to be addressed by this country: there would be no illegal drug trade if Americans did not demand and pay for drugs. Public funds for the treatment of drug addiction as a public health issue have been scarce in proportion to law enforcement and security measures. A public policy decision that forced judges to hand out mandated sentences to drug users has resulted in our nation's expanding prison population, now the largest in the world in proportion to our national population. It has, at the same time, forced the construction of new and costly prisons throughout the nation." (Maril, 289)
Texas Tech University Press, 2012
"A fundamental issue that Mexican officials have emphasized for decades is only beginning to be addressed by this country: there would be no illegal drug trade if Americans did not demand and pay for drugs. Public funds for the treatment of drug addiction as a public health issue have been scarce in proportion to law enforcement and security measures. A public policy decision that forced judges to hand out mandated sentences to drug users has resulted in our nation's expanding prison population, now the largest in the world in proportion to our national population. It has, at the same time, forced the construction of new and costly prisons throughout the nation." (Maril, 289)
She is Principal Digital Imaging Evangelist for Adobe. I'm inspired by her passenger seat and aerial photographs series. Seeing her work made me use my passenger seat time more creatively.
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![]() Escorial
Carmen Herrera 1974 Balance, clean lines, and wry humor. From this article on Herrera by Claire Messud: "Escorial (1974) is Herrera’s response to San Lorenzo del Escorial, the sixteenth-century Spanish royal monastery and palace, of which she explains: 'It was a garbage dump and now it’s a royal palace. And even more fun, El Escorial was designed as a symbol of Saint Lawrence, who was barbecued…and this is a grill.'" Found in the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC. |
![]() Interior (Innenraum) Anselm Kiefer 1981 I'm a huge fan of Kiefer's work - the color, the scale, the presence. This one is even better with the little boundary in front. Found at Centre Pompidou in Paris. |
![]() The Four Blues
Robert Irwin 1961 I read Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler at the suggestion of a friend. I think of his line work and experiements with vision as I draw my lines. Found at the SFMOMA. |
All photos in this section were taken by me on my travels.