Beach Barstool and Pot of Gold

This rusty barstool has been down at the beach the last few months. It was joined a few days ago by a white plastic garbage bag. The salt has eaten away at the chair’s metal frame, almost the same way termites eat away at deadwood, returning it to the soil. This scene of decay told of good times past, evidence of someone passing through…

The Dark Side

Despite the best clean-up efforts of groups like the St. Croix Environmental Association, the shorelines here on St. Croix are sometimes littered with debris – mostly plastic. Some is left behind by careless beachgoers, but far more is deposited from the ocean itself. That beautiful blue Caribbean Sea, an apparently limitless resource, is in fact full of garbage that drifts ashore. I think that…

Blog? Why a blog?

Maintaining an art blog requires some work. So why do it? Two somewhat unexpected benefits I’ve already learned: • Developing a post forces me to think about my work and articulate those thoughts. • Posting a new image encourages me to make sure it is the best it can be. And two that I’ve read about: • A blog is a way to expand…

The Irresistible Egg Fruit

There was this pile of bright yellow-orange egg fruit on a red table at St. Croix’s St. George Village Botanical Garden last summer. The jumble of shapes lit with an intense swath of sunlight across the front was irresistible. So I took it home with me. Occasionally I will go to work immediately on a photograph to produce a final image. However, just as…