Fog, Big Sur, August 10, 2009.

Chris Page and I drove to Big Sur today. The day started out sunny, but as we traveled south, the fog started rolling in. By the time we got to Nepenthe restaurant, there was no view, so we watched the fog and the jays.

Gray Tar Square, 2009.

snapshot • fuzzy yellow rectangle

This is an artwork displayed at the Hirshhorn Museum in DC a few years ago. I don't remember the name of the piece or the artist, but I liked the image, even if the photograph isn't all that great. 

Blue Wall, National Building Museum, Washington, DC, 2004.

Circle, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, 2008.

Garage Door, New Hampshire (for Robert Ryman), 2004.

I enjoy finding unintentional art, like this sloppily painted garage door. The first thing I thought of was the work of Robert Ryman, a painter who became known for his "white paintings," although he doesn't think about them as "white paintings." He is concerned with surface and truth to materials. 

“It was never an intention of mine to make white paintings. I don’t even consider that I paint white paintings. The white is just a means of exposing other elements. White enables other things to become visible.” 

(Ryman, quoted in Art News, Summer 1986)

For a good representation of his work, see the Dia: Beacon web site. 

Water Surface, Presidio, San Francisco, 2009

Dock, Presidio National Park, San Francisco, 2009.

Abstraction, The Presidio, San Francisco, 2009.

Abstraction, The Presidio, San Francisco, 2009.