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The Venus of Interpretation: Susan Sontag is “Against Interpretation” and for...
In the beginning, art was religion. “The earliest experience of art,” Susan Sontag writes in “Against Interpretation,” “must have been that it was incantatory, magical” (Sontag 1). With her round...
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#abstract: A Book of Ronosaurus Rex’s Abstract Photographs
Photography freed the painter from the need to represent the world realistically, so images melted off the campus as modern art developed. These days most painters have returned to more naturalistic...
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Influence of Modern Paintings on My Photos: Romanticism, Impressionism,...
“Interested in painterly photographs,” reads my profile on Instagram. By “painterly,” I mostly mean modernist and postmodernist paintings, from the Impressionists onward. In comments, viewers sometimes...
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The Abstract Photos of Ronosaurus Rex Compared to Abstract Paintings
(The second of a two part series examining the influence of modern art on my photographs, following the post The Influence of Modern, Figurative Art on Ronosaurus Rex’s Photos.) Abstract painters have...
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Protomysteries: Precursors of Detective Fiction
This post contains extracts from proto-mysteries, predating Edgar Alan Poe’s Auguste Dupin stories, which popularized the genre. For an analysis of some of these sources (“The Three Princes of...
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Ronosaurus Rex’s Walk Around the San Francisco Bay
The End of a 350-Mile Journey I have walked all around the San Francisco Bay at every accessible point, including islands, bridges, piers, and docks. You can see me below, jumping over the yellow line,...
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Crissy Field and the Presidio: Favorite Places on Ronosaurus Rex’s Bay Walk
(Andy Goldsworthy’s Wood Line) Walking through the forested Presidio, it’s easy to imagine that San Francisco was once covered with trees. Not so! Its sandy, shifting soil supported mostly low,...
View ArticleGuest Post on Save the Bay Blog: Biodiversity and Ronosaurus Rex’s Walk...
Save the Bay, the organization that did actually save the bay from plans to fill it in 60 percent to become a narrow shipping channel, invited me to write a guest post for their blog. I wrote about the...
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Astrology is Stoopid
When asked my sign, I try to brush off the question: “The yield sign,” I say with a flirtatious lift of the brow. Unfortunately, the innuendo rarely distracts the determined astrologist: “What’s your...
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Little Gardens: Life in a Hard Place
People talk about nature as if it were outside the city: “This weekend let’s get out into nature. Let’s go for a hike.” However, such statements create a division between humans and nature, as if we...
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