This week’s Substack tells the story of creating my own museum. Substack is now so varied that it is possible to write or present just about anything—from fiction to politics, justice to injustice, poetry to photography, and topics ranging from how to read, write, or be. I write about place […]
Today’s Substack explains how an artist’s tool relates to today’s urban policy debates about cities and places. The artist of a diptych creates a two-panel work. The pieces are both separate and intrinsically linked. Conversing with one another, the images tell a story. Now living in a city of artists, […]
Today, on Substack, I explain the relevance of the “115 Seen” Portfolio: Here is a quick, spontaneous update to the notion of an exile upon an exile to “take stock” discussed late last week, and the “let’s say” route to place immersion in New Mexico put forth last year. I […]
Is there a predicate to “placemaking” where a place is analyzed and mastered? Is that process of immersion, which I so love to emphasize, part of the placemaking process, or should it be called something else? To many, the question poses a distinction without a difference. Nonetheless, in talking about […]
My third book, Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices (with Tigran Haas), will be released by early 2021 and is available for pre-order from Rowman & Littlefield, AmazonUS, AmazonUK, Barnes and Noble, and legacy bookstores worldwide. The essays and photographs exhibited on this website are a […]
