Pine Barrens I

Gearing up for another year of huge live paintings at Beardfest this spring in New Jersey's strange and magical Pine Barrens, I started thinking about how I can incorporate this imagery in my personal work. Isolated, eternal, imperceptibly not-flat topography, tannin-filled water, and sandy soil--the Pine Barrens seem in many ways like a different planet. Whenever I'm there I half expect the weather to move in its own pattern, set apart from the rest of the world.

Here are some images I've dug up so far, of the Barrens and other things that led out from my initial explorations. Enjoy!

More from the National Museum of African Art

Papa Ibra Tall

Christine Dixie

Walter Williams

Georgia Papageorge

Senzeni Marasela

Language of Place

Found a painting by Wosene Worke Kosrof at the African Art Museum in DC.

Some more here:

Digested Topography

Check out Jim Morris' work at the DCCA right now.

These layers create an interesting topography that references urban landscapes and digital electronics. He has really interesting things to say about how we reinterpret information from news, graphics, and charts--in many ways his pieces seem to be a look at those images after we digest them, leaving an original with altered references and context.

Some favorites below:

Still Water Moves

Some rather incredible images from Ray Collins. Water becomes mountain.

This might be my favorite.