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Odessa

After a railway had reached El Paso in the 1880s, a sleepy cattle town grew outward across a dusty plain, Grant and Texas avenues, a place changed by energy, where effort and determination resulted in houses and opportunities.

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Marfa

From Odessa, Marfa is close but not too close.

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Church

New Sweden, Texas

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Sandhills

Monahans Sandhills State Park, Windmill, and Texas & Pacific Section House

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Pumpjack

Odessa, Texas

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Way Out

What will we do with all of these photos we’ve taken? Gathering new ones takes less time than sifting through our current lot, and how many images of the same vintage motel sign do we need?

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Writing

The ability to write is a sturdy boat on rough seas.

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Pecos

Mile-long trains dashed across a desolate plain. I sat in our 70’s Buick Skylark, listened to Hank Williams on cassette, and let derelict buildings fill my eyes. My mother accepted a teaching job in Pecos during the eighties oil bust.

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Lessen Suffering

Why we start businesses is similar to why we write songs if the reason is to lessen suffering. Reducing suffering is as close to a philosophy of everything that I have found.

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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.