Art/Architecture/Design
Grey & Gold
Denver Art Museum
Chihuly Abstraction
In 2014 I toured the Chihuly Glass Museum in Seattle Center.
It was sensory overload – my jaw hung open to my chest the whole time. I took lots of shots but never quite figured out what to do with them. Over the holidays I revisited the collection with an eye toward abstraction.

3×3
it’s quiet …
… in downtown Montello, Nevada — population 84.
Sunset Strip
Custom paint, street rod…
Cage
Abstract macro light bulb…
abandoned …
… but well tagged. An old bar alongside Route 140 in northern Nevada.
15th
15th Street before sunrise from the Optiv Tower: Denver, CO
Mile High
Mile High Stadium (aka Empower Field)
just lookin’ …
… at the Sun Tunnels near Lucin, Utah.
framing …
… in a former Pony Express station in the Nevada outback.
solstice gunsight …
… one of the Sun Tunnels in the dry, ancient, glacial lake desert near Lucin, Utah. I’ve driven there four times now — and I’ll keep going as long as I can … (Explainer.)
‘riders on the storm’ …
Dark, ominous clouds hover over the remains of a Pony Express station (built circa 1860) in eastern Nevada …
have a seat …
… in the nearly abandoned hamlet of Cisco, Utah.
fading vines …
… on the side the dining hall at my university.
a rarely used door …
… on a building at my university.
the tunnel …
… through a dormitory at my university.
the hinge …
… on a famed door at my university.
tagged …
… graffiti at an abandoned gasoline station in Table Rock, Wyoming, USA.
artist unknown …
… a still life on the side of Pony Express building constructed before the Civil War north of Ely, Nevada.
Henry …
… on the side of a defunct motel along Route 93 in eastern Nevada.