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CIVIL ENTERPRISE After 26 years in New York, moving to San Francisco was like stepping off the tilt-a-whirl. The camera helped shift my eye down from hilly vistas to a more grounded and surprisingly accessible ‘user experience’. In a sense, San Francisco comes with a backstage pass. While I eventually came to acknowledge San Francisco as a bona fide city, I have not let go of the idea that San Francisco is still emerging as a fully realized urban center. Civil Enterprise features three groups of work. Civil Enterprise takes center stage with a full frame documentary style that mingles with bold lines, colors, and textures. Weathered Landscapes, done in sepia tone, provide a stronger dose of environment without losing the urban sensibility that is so much a part of my work. Lastly, Urban Textures uses tighter frames and mild abstractions to detail our everyday urban surroundings. |
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SEA RANCH TYPOLOGIES Built to harmonize with the site’s steep oceanfront cliffs and grassy mesas, Sea Ranch’s beauty and tranquility depend on its adherence to a tight set of guidelines that promote sameness and discourage the diversity of architectural forms. While most planned-community architecture reflects mainstream societal norms, Sea Ranch appeals to a less practical ideological sensibility. To be fair, Sea Ranch was never an evangelical construct, and its “purity” is based predominantly on aesthetics, which made it a somewhat uncontrolled social experiment. |
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REGIONAL UNDERPINNINGS Built to harmonize with the site’s steep oceanfront cliffs and grassy mesas, Sea Ranch’s beauty and tranquility depend on its adherence to a tight set of guidelines that promote sameness and discourage the diversity of architectural forms. While most planned-community architecture reflects mainstream societal norms, Sea Ranch appeals to a less practical ideological sensibility. To be fair, Sea Ranch was never an evangelical construct, and its “purity” is based predominantly on aesthetics, which made it a somewhat uncontrolled social experiment. |
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THE SHAPE OF LIGHT |