My life has been impacted by two geographic places in particular, the Cape Cod peninsula, where I was born and lived for 25 years, and the New Mexico high desert, where I first visited over 40 years ago. As a young man I was emotionally engaged in a letter writing campaign to support the establishment of the Cape Cod National Seashore. I was even lucky enough to have attended a lecture by Rachel Carson, whose remarkable book, “Silent Spring” signaled a wake up call for many Americans in the 1960’s. In combination with living here and reading about the fragile and spectacular urban environment of Albuquerque, past and present events have come together to inform my new life in the high desert as well as my work in photography and printmaking.
Open Spaces is a body of work in which I’ve attempted to capture imagery of Albuquerque as seen in and around the built urban spaces, for the most part avoiding man made structures.
Albuquerque is a unique city, surrounded by spectacular geography. There’s the grandeur of the Sandia Mountains, the lure of the west mesa volcanoes, the basaltic escarpment and the Rio Grande bosque, all of which can be viewed and enjoyed without the intrusion of buildings or houses. This is, in part, due to the advocacy of concerned Albuquerque citizens, who have enabled the Albuquerque Open Space Center and related planning, thus raising awareness of this beautiful city and the splendid landscape in which it is nestled.
