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SOMEWHERE OUT THERE,
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
President John F. Kennedy, June 26 1963
There's something about the American spirit - inherent in the American spirit - we don't hang on to the past. We always move forward….
President Barack Obama, October 15, 2009
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While walking around on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. in 2009, I kept thinking about the phrase boldly embedded into the stone facade of the National Archives - a place of our collective national being and history.
WHAT IS PAST IS PROLOGUE
Somewhere Out There, Something Is Happening is an expansive ongoing series of individually-titled artist books that mediate on the physical places and psychological spaces of the social scene in the United States. Each title is driven by a curiosity while traveling and coming upon sites of interest and history in combination with extensive research while on-location and afterwards back in the studio. The collection currently consists of 11 artist books with each volume a narrative vignette of photographs, archived images, and fragmented, reflective texts that consider our inescapable history and whether what is past is a prologue of something happening now.
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TITLES
Click on Each Book to View Additional Details, Sample Broadsides and Index Sheets
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And Then The Sky Turned Angry
Explores the seemingly organized placement of personal effects after an EF-5 tornado in Joplin, Missouri.
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Beneath the Dirt of Great Men
Exposes the carbon landscape of oil pumping jacks and waste water fracking ponds in the Permian Basin of Southeast New Mexico and West Texas, also known as the “petroleum graveyard.”
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Dance All Night
Remembers the victims in the aftermath of the Pulse Nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, which would become the second deadliest mass shooting by a single shooter and the deadliest incident of violence against LGBTQ+ people in United States history.
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Epiphanies in Ancient Sands
Offers quiet contemplation of what is left in the sands of the Topaz War Relocation Center for Japanese-Americans in Utah that set an atmosphere and emotional tone of trauma and personal identity being taken.
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Gardens of Paradise
Examines the selling of companionship and “glamour shot” images of women on escort cards that become discarded in the fountains and gardens of the Las Vegas Strip, an area known as Paradise.
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It Was A Beautiful Dream
Reflects on the Native American experience and the history of the Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer's Last stand) in Montana & the Massacre at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
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Lest We Forget To Remember
Memormializes the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas in 1964.
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Lift Every Voice
Retraces the locations of the 1964 voting rights movement tragedy in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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There Shall It Be
Contemplates the beauty and destruction of old growth forests and clear cutting along the Oregon coast.
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Where Wonders Surround You
Travels through the conditions and consequences of climate change and global warming in the Southern California landscape.
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Whispers from the Apple Orchard
Offers impressions of stillness and quiet contemplation at the Manzanar War Relocation Center from World War II in the Eastern Sierra Nevada.
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SELECT PHOTOGRAPHS
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FROM AND THEN THE SKY TURNED ANGRY
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from Beneath the Dirt of Great Men
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FROM DANCE ALL NIGHT
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FROM EPIPHANIES IN ANCIENT SANDS
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FROM GARDENS OF PARADISE
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FROM IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DREAM
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FROM LEST WE FORGET TO REMEMBER
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FROM LIFT EVERY VOICE
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FROM THERE SHALL IT BE
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FROM WHERE WONDERS SURROUND YOU
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FROM WHISPERS FROM THE APPLE ORCHARD
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