Donating a Bike

Stopped by Community Cycles today in Boulder to drop off an old bike I had. Amazing place. Lots of activity going on. Bikes all over the place in different stages of clean up, repair, rebuilding. Very friendly people. As soon as I arrived a young woman introduced herself, thanked me for the donation, filled out my tax-deductable form and showed me where to take the bike. After that I just wandered around checking the place out. Volunteers cleaning the shop up, parts being sorted, people getting instructions on how to work on their bikes. They even have an Earn-A-Bike program where you donate your time and after 15 hours you can pick out a bike and fix it up for yourself. Just great bike stuff, right to ride advocacy, communtiy bike programs where they hold Rolling Bike Clinics to fix broken bikes in low income neighborhoods. Lots of real world bike experience here. Very cool. Glad I found it.

Moon Ride

3/29/10

5:10am – On my bike ride to work this morning there was an incredible full moon over the Front Range. First the moon was hidden behind a screen of clouds with its glow reflecting off the mountains. Gradually as I rode the cloud cover moved east and released the moon. Amazing site of the snow fields and the silhouettes of the peaks against the still dark sky.

Gone

Recent watercolor and photo collage sketch from my journal. Working with the idea of a vanishing image. An image of lost place or history or thought, a reminder.

Frameworks

I've always been interested in the process of structure. I've found houses and buildings to be far more interesting while they were being built vs. being completed. A structure that is under construction reveals it's inner workings and gives the imagination the task of completion instead of presenting a finished whole. I've explored this idea begining with my earlier sculptures like the ones pictured above and continue to do so. That's why I've entitled them Frameworks.

Journals

I've kept journals since the 80's. Recording my ideas and places that I've been in my travels. The journals act as a reminder, an incubator for ideas and sketches for projects that I am working on. The painting above was the basis for a photo collage I did years after this initial sketch when I found the house in the California desert near Edwards Air Force Base and photographed it.

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