Also known as Canada Geese, members of the species Branta canadensis are known for their V-shaped flight formation and seasonal migrations (the honking of large flocks overhead marks the transition into spring and autumn in the Arctic and temperate North America). Once threatened by over-hunting and loss of habitat, the geese have proven remarkably adaptable to human-altered areas (e.g. golf courses, parks and beaches) and are now the most common waterfowl species in N.A.
Sing and rejoice, fortune is smiling on you is the third entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken in Golden Gate Park (San Francisco, California), in October 2009.
I’m excited to be included in Thx 4 ur Info, a group show at the Fine Art Gallery at Colorado State University—Pueblo, focused on social networking as art. The show opens November 6 and will run through December 11, 2009. If you were my friend, you’d have met me in Tuolumne Meadows on Monday, August 18th will be presented as twenty 6 x 6″ digital C-prints.
The show is curated by Caroline Peters, Assistant Professor of Art History and Contemporary Theory as well as the Director of the Fine Art Gallery at CSU-Pueblo.
Contributing artists include Rachel Perry Welty, Jenna Kuiper, Boris Ostrerov, and Brian Buckbee. The Opening Reception is Friday, November 6 from 5-7 p.m.
Hey, Hot Shot!, a Jen Bekman project, has included a review of my work in advance of selections for the 2009 Second Edition of Hey, Hot Shot!, a premier international photography competition. In describing (3) submitted images from Montpelier, the reviewer noted that “illustrations of maps drawn over photographs give geographic contextualization to his portraits of place.” The review continues “Both an illustrator and photographer, Kyle’s pen and pencil are as strongly guided by by the lines and shapes of the objects in the images as they are by his imagination an memory. His series’ work together—sometimes with contiguous illustrations meant to connect images—to tell both fantastic and narrative stories of personal adventures.” Read the rest of this entry »
Everything will now come your way is the second entry to a recently initiated series on fortunes. Photographs were taken on Stinson Beach, California, in August 2009.
I’ve lived in the Richmond District for 12 years, not far from a section of Clement Street known as San Francisco’s “other Chinatown.” The location provides easy access to fortune cookies, often sold in quantities of 50-100. There has been little price inflation since I first started buying them for $0.99 a bag. Cheaper than chips, and with equal nutritional value (not much), these cookies have made a great accompaniment to many a lunch. The happy by-product of all this? I’m the luckiest guy around.
Photographs were taken at the Whitmore Pool, a public swimming facility fed by natural hot springs just south of Mammoth Lakes. The text, as I expect you’ve guessed, came from a fortune cookie.
Auden, our youngest, joined Henry at preschool this month. The seasoned veteran (featured below) has taken it upon himself to show his brother the ropes, providing company on the playground, help unpacking lunch, reminders to go pee (Auden is still potty training), and a familiar face among so many new ones. This drawing is dedicated to the two of them. I am so very proud of both.
This series of photographs was taken in Tuolumne Meadows, looking back at traffic on Tioga Road (aka Highway 120) which runs along it’s southern edge. The meadow is a well known feature of Yosemite National Park and the road is an undeniable feature of it, taking travelers up and over 3,031 m Tioga Pass when open in the summer months. Facebook’s photo tagging convention and the names of Facebook friends (through September 8, 2009) were hand-drawn.
I love Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, and feel so fortunate to reexperience it with our boys; at ages 3 (”I’m 3-3/4!”) and 2 (”I’m 2-1/2!”), they can recite every line. The story is reenacted daily at our home, and it is not uncommon to hear a terrible roar, the gnashing of terrible teeth, or see the baring of terrible claws en route to the kitchen. As such, it is a great pleasure to contribute to Cory Godbey’s wonderful project Terrible Yellow Eyes, a collection of artwork inspired by the book. View as slideshow (below) or click here to view as a single composite image.
