I remember how one drawing instructor I had at the university used to say that “…line does not exist in nature”. I think about that statement every time I come across one of these tangles of fishing line. They always catch my eye and on occasion I have photographed them. It is true that line is a [...]
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Line in Nature
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, unusual collection, watershed, tagged Art, drawing, fishing line, monofilament on December 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fishing on the Rocks
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, animals, art and environment, birding, birds and birding, collections, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, unusual collection, watershed, tagged Art, fisherman, fishing, jigs, nature photography, Styrofoam on December 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The river is low and clear and fisherman have been testing their luck at the Falls of the Ohio. It’s one of those situations where even if the fish aren’t biting, it’s still wonderful to be out in nature. Sightseers have been moving along the riverbank and on this occasion I have come across other [...]
Late November Finds
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, unusual collection, watershed, tagged Art, Falls of the Ohio, found objects, gourds, lost toys on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just to help pad a month of posts shortchanged by computer woes…I’m publishing some recent finds of mine at the Falls of the Ohio. I found these objects (and more) the last three times I visited the river across the way from Louisville. Something about the lay of the land and the prevailing currents push [...]
The Shoes You Lose
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, nature photography, unusual collection, watershed, tagged flip-flop, photo essay, Ohio River, Falls of the Ohio, lost shoes, sandals, found footwear, shoe collection on October 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve started another collection of images courtesy of you and the Ohio River. Here’s the latest in found footwear located within the Falls of the Ohio State Park. Although I have noticed lost shoes for years, I have only recently started taking pictures of them. So, in many respects this represents the height of riverine [...]
Ohio River Sea Life
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, animals, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, unusual collection, watershed, tagged Art, flotsam and jetsam, octopus, Ohio River, photography, plastic toys, river finds, sea life, seahorse on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The inspiration for this post comes from a couple newspaper articles that appeared in the Courier-Journal a few years ago. Seems somebody found a dead, but genuine octopus at the Falls of the Ohio! Since our fair area is over a thousand miles away from the ocean and its salty water this was quite a discovery. How did it [...]
Passing Gas(oline) Container Collection
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, recycled art, sculpture, unusual collection, watershed, tagged Falls of the Ohio, fossils, found objects, gas cans, gasoline, petrochemical, petroleum, photo essay, photography, plastic, unusual collection on August 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have just posted a new collection of images that can be found in my Pages section. This selection is of gasoline containers found in context at the Falls of the Ohio State Park. All theses containers reached here by floating down or with the Ohio River. I find there is a certain level of [...]
Treading Water
Posted in Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, art and environment, collections, ecosytem, fresh water, nature, nature photography, watershed, tagged flooding, fossil beds, landscape, logs, rainfall, riverscape, Seurat on August 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Perhaps you heard that we had an unusual flash flooding incident in Louisville on Tuesday, August 4? It made the national news. It’s not everyday that parts of the city receive 6 1/2 inches of rain in an hour! This storm just hung over the city and wouldn’t budge. The dark clouds poured it on and we [...]
What’s in the Bag?
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, Styrofoam, animals, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, unusual collection, watershed, tagged Art and Life, art supplies, contents of bag, creativity, decorations, Lewis and Clark, plastic toys, river finds, sculpture wreckage on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I have been carrying this Lewis and Clark Bicentennial light canvas bag to the Falls since the beginning of this project. Considering the years of use, its held up pretty well. For me, this is one of the key artifacts from this experience. Since 2003, I have filled and them emptied this bag several times [...]
Day Lilies at the Falls of the Ohio
Posted in Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Originality, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, sculpture, watershed, tagged Art, day lily, environmental art, Falls of the Ohio, gardening, genetic art, George Gessert, lilies on July 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
For many years I have admired the gardening efforts by the staff and park volunteers to beautify the area around the Interpretive Center. I don’t know if these fine folks get the credit they deserve, but I thought I could devote a post to sing their praises and say thank you. I would be remiss [...]
Mutant Toy and Friends
Posted in Absurd, Art, Falls of the Ohio, Green, Louisville, Kentucky, Ohio River, Styrofoam, art and environment, collections, creativity, ecosytem, environmental art, fresh water, nature, nature photography, public art, recycled art, sculpture, unusual collection, watershed, tagged photography, found objects, found toy, mutant toy, plush toy, plastic elephant, river finds, lost toys on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I tried something different the other day at the Falls. I found the headless body of a plastic toy sheep and decided to improvise a new head for it. The results are not much different from some of the imagery coming out of Japan. I found a collapsing, materially fatigued yellow rubber ball and added [...]
