Walk About
This series, which I exhibited at the Grand Manan Museum in 2020-2022, was inspired by year-round, all-kinds-of-weather daily walks with Milly, my Wire-Haired Pointing Griffon Dog, and Marduk, my black cat.  The cat is old now, and Piper (another Griffon) has replaced Milly, but the daily walks and photo captures continue.  The natural beauty and rugged geography of Grand Manan is the reason I live here – its beaches, ocean vistas, big skies, forests and meadows.  Walking with animals in the woods slows me down and makes me aware of my surroundings – of the continuities, disjuncts and connections between things.  Preoccupations are revealed over time:  a concern for the environment and our impact on it; an appreciation of the human creative need to make a mark in the sand or to build something out of the flotsam and jetsam found on a beach; and a desire to reflect upon and record the passing of a life, large or small – a herring gull, a lighthouse, a whale or a butterfly. These diptychs were created with the hope that they would provoke thoughtful reflection.
Abandoned
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Alphabet Artefacts in Iron and Wood
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Beach Abandon
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Beach Combing Found Sculpture
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Blue and Yellow Fishing Gear #1
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Blue Fishing Gear #2
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Butterfly Wing & Lightbulb with Goose Barnacles
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Chair and Pail
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Chair and Pail #2
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Circles
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Winter Clouds & Water
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Coiled and Linked
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Cormorant and Jellyfish
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2019, 16″ x 20″
Counterflow
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Deer and Dancing Bear (Lichen)
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Diagonal Disjunct
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Dissolutions #1
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Dissolutions #2
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Echos
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Empty Rooms at McAdam Railway Station
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Fallen & Frozen
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Fallen But Not Forgotten
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2020, 16″ x 20″
Fallen Gravestones
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2020, 16″ x 20″
Lines of Tension
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Feather & Folded Rock
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2019, 16″ x 20″
Feather and Lichen Rock With Snail
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Folds and Rounded Rocks
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Garden Pollinators
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2020, 16″ x 20″
Woodland Greens
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2020, 16″ x 20″
Milly & Marduk on a Walk
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Left Behind on the Beach
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Milly Hiking
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Lost Buoys on Whale Cove Beach
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Whale Black Glisten & Barnacled Rock
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Minke Whale Sighting
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Minke Whale #1
Minke Whale #2
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Minke Whale Passage
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Minke Whale Textures
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Palimpsest #1 – Petunias and Minke Whale Scar
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Palimpsest #2 – Minke Whale and Jellyfish
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Palimpsest #3 – Minke Whale Scars
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Flesh From the Sea
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Mud Puddle Sun and Lion’s Mane Jellyfish
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Milly & Marduk
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
On the Red Trail in Whale Cove
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Mushroom & Moss
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Spring Green #1
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Piano Keys & Soundboard
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Abandoned Car & Piano Soundboard
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Sealed Fates – Seal Flipper and Whale Cove Piano
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Plastic Beach Garbage
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Remnants – Sea Urchin and Butterfly Wings
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Rock Folds and Sand Ripples
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Rock Textures
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Rocks and Clay
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Sand Patterns #1
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Sand Patterns #2
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Stanley’s Beach Old Shoe and Bottle
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Storm Stranded
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Washed Up: Non-biodegradable
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2019, 16″ x 20″
Stranded
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Seaweed Flings #1
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Seaweed Flings #2
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Sunsets #1
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Sunsets #2
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Sunsets #3
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
The Long View
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2019, 16″ x 20″
Tree Fungus and Pebbles
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Two Rocky Shorelines – Whale Cove and Indian Beach
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Tidal Impressions
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Tidal Tailings
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
USA Blue Bird of Happiness
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Traces
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Whale Cove Piano #2
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Winter Fallout
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Two Abandoned Seats
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Winter Walkways
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Winter Beaches
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″
Whale Cove Blue Skies
Digital Photo Diptych on Paper, 2018, 16″ x 20″