Gallery & Aesthetics

Favorite images and ideas from my far flung travels are collected in this gallery. The show revolves and recycles as whim dictates. Photography and artwork by Keith McCandless unless otherwise noted. 

The focus is on self-organizing patterns and fractals in nature – including human nature!  Surprisingly, a very clear aesthetic has emerged from our work with Liberating Structures. Elements of the aesthetic include:

• Insight comes from inconspicuous often overlooked details

 

• Beauty can be coaxed out of messiness

 

• Focus on the intrinsic qualities

 

• Ignore material or technological hierarchy

 

• Look for what is irregular, intimate, unpretentious

 

• Look for comfort with ambiguity

 

• Don’t ignore what is imperfect, crude or impermanent

 

 

 

 

 

Journal sharing project among 11 artists.  A few pages from my journal...

encouraging others to face fears with dancing demons.

 

 More rotating journal contributions. Below: circus attraction soothsayer, mixed media.

One more shared journaling artifact: persimmon branch with a Donna Markova quote overlay.

 

April journal theme is "nature."  A few of my favorite flora and fauna (ink and paint on paper).

May journal theme is "object as story."   

Focusing attention in Belize. Photo credit: Dick Lazeres

 

 

 

 

Another fabulous image from Tracy Kelly

 

 

Image by Jim Hodges

 

 

 

 

 

Fabulous birds in the Gulf Islands, Canada

Above: photo by David Gasser

 

Bald Eagles, Osprey, Peregrin Falcon, Blue Heron, Redtailed-Hawk, Pileated Woodpecker, Oyster Catcher, and Vulture in the Gulf Islands

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Photo by Lesley Jacobs