Photo Essays Photography and narrative walking together.
Travel Writing You go without knowing what you’re looking for.
Poetry Where meaning outlasts the sentence.
01 Five Chapters
My Biography

Bay Ridge to Flâneur. Five chapters of flux.

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Nook Nook woven coir doormat
02 One Doormat
Nook Nook Mats
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03 Dánlann
The Poetry Machine
Thousands of years.  One wall.
Flâneur 718

Los Angeles

A wide view from a dark chaparral hillside looking west over Los Angeles at dusk, with a dirt footpath winding along the ridge and city lights spreading across the basin. The sky is streaked with bands of red, orange and grey cloud above the distant Century City towers and a hazy line of ocean on the horizon.
California los angeles
2023

Open air, hardlines, and a city that is always tilted to the end of its day.

A wide view from a dark chaparral hillside looking west over Los Angeles at dusk, with a dirt footpath winding along the ridge and city lights spreading across the basin. The sky is streaked with bands of red, orange and grey cloud above the distant Century City towers and a hazy line of ocean on the horizon.
Black and white photograph of a bearded man in dark sunglasses, a striped cardigan and a graphic tee reading MONTANA, standing against a tall ribbed white concrete wall with a brick base while holding a paper coffee cup. His shadow falls sharply on the wall behind him, and the right half of the frame drops into deep shade where a tree, a distant car and storefront signs are barely visible.
A man in a white t-shirt and plaid shorts walks away down a wide dirt trail on a hilltop overlook, with other visitors seated on a bench ahead and the lights of Los Angeles spreading out below a band of orange and pink sunset sky. Bare, leaning dead trees stand on either side of the ridge, with dry grasses in the foreground.
Black and white photograph of a stucco building facade with three square windows outlined in dark tile, one reflecting a neighboring building and a partial sign reading CENTER in reverse. A wooden utility pole rises through the center of the frame carrying a suspended street lamp, and a large curved shadow falls across the lower left wall.
Four numbered concrete handball courts at Venice Beach stand against a pink and orange sunset sky, with players walking between the open bays and a man in a cap and blue jacket standing near an orange traffic cone at right. A palm tree trunk fills the left edge of the frame and the ocean is visible in the gap beyond the courts.
A young man in a black cap, jacket and jeans leans against the low concrete wall of the Venice Beach Recreation Center at dusk, his skateboard propped upright beside him. The weathered wall carries raised lettering reading Venice Beach Recreation Center, Department of Recreation and Parks, City of Los Angeles, with numbered handball courts receding to the right and a second figure standing in the distance.
Black and white portrait of a bearded man in round sunglasses, a striped knit cardigan and a graphic tee reading MONTANA, standing with one hand in his pocket against a low white wall. Spiky palm fronds fill the upper half of the frame and cast hard shadows across the wall behind him.
Extreme close-up of a gray, pitted metal surface punctured by rows of large dark circular holes, with small pinholes set between them; the lower holes blur into ellipses as the plate angles away from the camera.
A person in a helmet and dark puffy jacket stands beside a mint green bicycle with a loaded rear rack on wide beach sand, facing a row of tall palm trees silhouetted against an orange and pink sunset sky. A lifeguard tower sits at far left, distant mountains line the horizon, and a graffiti-covered wall runs along the right edge.
Black and white photograph of Randy's Donuts in Los Angeles, with the enormous rooftop donut sign rising above a low white building and a dark SUV parked in the drive-through lane. A bearded man in a light hoodie and sweatpants stands in sunlight at the edge of the lot holding a coffee cup, with power lines crossing the pale sky above.
Four people appear as dark silhouettes in the foreground, looking out over a vast grid of Los Angeles city lights from an elevated overlook. Above the glowing horizon, layered clouds streak a deep blue twilight sky with a thin band of orange near the skyline.
Black and white close view of a white painted metal railing with diagonal lattice bars meeting at a corner post, its shadow repeating across the wall behind it. To the right, a dark wrought iron gate with scroll details stands in deep shadow.
Looking up from inside a courtyard with olive green stucco walls that meet at a corner, framing a wedge of deep blue sky. A rust colored steel beam crosses the opening, a translucent paneled canopy extends from the upper right, and a small cream colored fixture with a thin pole is mounted on the far wall.
A bearded man with curly hair and glasses stands in a sunlit asphalt parking lot wearing a black tank top and shorts, his shadow stretching to the right. Behind him are parked sedans and SUVs and a long concrete building painted with signs reading Slauson Super Mall and Gibraltar Self Storage, with palm trees and power lines against a pale sky.
A skateboarder with wind-blown hair stands in silhouette on the lip of a concrete bowl at a beachfront skatepark, backlit by an orange band of light along the ocean horizon. Metal handrails cut across the darkened foreground while other figures and a lifeguard tower sit along the far edge of the park.
Black and white photograph looking up at an exterior concrete staircase, its open treads cantilevered from a diagonal beam and casting deep shadows on a pale stucco wall. A thin steel handrail cuts across the frame beneath the dark underside of an upper landing.
A round black scooter mirror stands in sharp focus at center frame, its glass filled with the reflection of rusted metal bars crossing at sharp diagonals. Behind it the street blurs into a red corrugated shutter, shop doorways, carts of merchandise and a bundle of white plastic cutlery in the lower foreground.
A white-haired man in glasses and a dark graphic T-shirt sits on a wicker patio chair, holding a carved jack-o'-lantern in his lap while another sits on the low table in front of him. Strings of small pumpkin-shaped lanterns drape across the table and the house wall behind, with a large leafy shrub and window frames filling the background.
A nighttime view across Los Angeles from an elevated hillside, with thousands of scattered street and house lights spreading toward the horizon and the clustered towers of the downtown skyline glowing at center. The upper half of the frame is dark blue sky streaked with a thin band of cloud.
An extreme close-up of a gray perforated metal or concrete panel, its round holes arranged in an offset grid. Through each opening, black voids and pale textured shapes appear, with focus falling off sharply toward the edges of the frame.
A black and white photograph of a person standing in silhouette at the right edge of a wide sandy beach, wearing sunglasses and a knit sweater, holding a lidded coffee cup and a bag while raising one hand toward their face. In the distance are two volleyball nets on poles, the flat ocean horizon, and a pier extending into the water under a pale hazy sky.
Two lifeguard towers stand in silhouette on a darkened beach beneath a band of orange afterglow along the horizon, with streaked blue clouds filling the upper sky. Two small figures stand on the sand to the right of the towers, with more distant walkers further along the shore.
At night, a person wearing a bright headlamp walks a black dog on a leash along the sidewalk of a concrete balustrade bridge, passing a parked red hatchback with its brake lights glowing. Ornate street lamps and distant headlights recede up the road toward dark hillside houses.