The internal ride of making art and sharing it in public can be day-to-day at times. I’ve got several months until my first solo photography show in June 2019, at Kreuser Gallery. The subject matter is in my hands. No pressure is put on me. I get to just be Read more
The poem below is a #showyourwork slice of what I’m eyeing for my next chapbook. I published Echoes of Oms earlier this year and now I’ve cleared some projects to a point I can return to San Agustinillo. San Agustinillo is a small fishing village on the Pacific, in the Read more
There are an estimated 35 to 45 in-progress collage works surrounding artist Robyn Sean Peterson in his home studio. Most of them are stacked upright and leaning against a wall. There are nearly a dozen pieces in varying sizes — intricate, colorful, mesmerizing — that lie across a U-ish shape Read more
Another prose poem and photograph from the #trailyoga and #showyourwork files. Bird I don’t know why he did that, why he stuck the toe of his shoe against your head and body, and flipped you rolling in the dirt and rock. The savage. I saw you first. Whole and still, Read more
From a morning trail yoga stroll among the mountains: Another look into the unfolding process of a photography project, poetry and yoga. Husks of life small and quiet offer whispers of what they once held when they alighted on grainy walls of rock red, buried in millennia of revolutions Translucent Read more
It doesn’t take much to set a poem in motion. Driving down a stretch of highway named for a U.S.S. Arizona survivor, a man who experienced the bombing of Pearl Harbor and came through it. What did he see? What can he say of what he felt? I sat in Read more
Christine Kathryn recently turned the microphone toward me for her Creating Space podcast. She brought the questions and I gave up the answers. I am used to being the one behind the questions and the camera. It’s a rare experience for me to see how other interviewers connect the dots, Read more
A prose poem, “Cottonwoods in the Valley,” from a session of trail yoga spent low and slow in the Garden of the Gods. Like I’m coming into the scene of a cold case, one left to linger in the open air for all to witness, evidence strewn, dried and decaying. Read more
I talked at length recently with artist Robyn Sean Peterson. He offered many tremendous insights. That fuller conversation will be published in the coming weeks. For now, consider his definition of art and its “trinity of potentials.” “Art is the footprints left by the human soul as it passes through time, and Read more
Update: This photography series continues to evolve and expand. Now called Reverence: Portraits of Natures Mortes, you can see a selection from this work in the Reverence online gallery and via the @humanitouphotography Instagram page. (April 18, 2019) I’m lighting the fuse on a new photography project. It’s one I’ve Read more
Words often come to me when I hike. So do creative ideas and photos and … The words often come in lyrical verse. Sometimes as fragments, notes to work out later. Sometimes as formed poems I jot down and then try to leave alone, letting the flow of that moment Read more
Humanitou + PeakRadar.com Content Partnership Humanitou is about making connections. I created the site as a platform to shine light on amazing people doing amazing things, to let my curiosity fly and to learn. Humanitou is a creative outlet for me. It also is a megaphone for our community. Good Read more
With a cup of coffee in hand and a gentle demeanor, Jack Elder sat down with Humanitou and dipped into the wide range of his life that has led him here, there and, seemingly, everywhere. Jack, 74, was an Army brat who went to military school. He was a young Read more
On a clipboard marked “Adam Williams 1-B,” I have a stack of poetry I wrote years ago. The prose poem below digs into a mystery, reflecting on moments of father-son catch in the backyard gone by and forgotten. Decades have passed. Now, I have sons. One of them, at six Read more
A new round of Humanitou portraits will be on exhibit in the 1st Amendment Gallery at the Manitou Art Center, opening August 3 with First Friday events throughout the area. For the past two months, framed 11″ x 14″ prints of Floyd Tunson, Layla Redding and Peter Maksimow have been on Read more
I previously noted my packing list for creativity on the go, that it includes a variety of note- and sketchbooks. Not to mention my smartphone, with which I also use Google Docs to capture ideas in the wild. So, not long ago, while standing with a double scoop of helado, Read more
From the #showyourwork files … I’m living by the peso and here’s my packing list: a pocket notebook for poetry notes on the go, a morning pages journal, an unlined pocket notebook for small sketches and pithy lightning bolts, a bigger sketchbook, and new artist pens and graphite pencils. Three Read more
A guitar hangs on the wall, and another leans into a corner in Xanthe Alexis’ living room. Poetry books are neatly stacked on the coffee table. An abundance of morning light and the art placed here and there fills out the vibe of creativity, comfort and quiet joy. Xanthe, 38, Read more
Sometimes I use the tag #showyourwork. It came from the mind of the writer and artist Austin Kleon. He popularized the idea in his 2014 book, Show Your Work. With that book Kleon suggests: “ … ways to think about your work as a never-ending process, how to build an Read more
I’ve talked twice recently with longstanding professional artists about legacy. Floyd Tunson and Mark Wong both shook off the idea of their work in that longest view. They work for themselves, their visions, and let the rest play out as it will. In recent months, I’ve transitioned from the workaday Read more