The images here are the work of many different photographers and I’ve collected them using personal and ineffable criteria. Collaging the images simply increases my enjoyment of their contents. I view the things as collaborated Arcadian pictures and seed-verses for artistic thinking. This isn’t a practice about knowledge; if you share a trust in the emotional power of art and craft, outside of dissertation, you may enjoy the website. Occasional nudity is for nudity’s sake. If nudity distracts you, this is none of my business.
Most of the architectural photography comes from the Library of Congress who commissioned it’s collection during the first Great Depression by underemployed artists working on the American taxpayer’s behalf. Most of the pictures of people are retrieved from thrift store bins; and the astronomer’s photographs are gleaned from the public domain. Other images are culled from the television screen or made in my home with an SLR camera.
Many original photographs frequently show signs of honest damage or hasty handling in the darkroom and I do digitally clean and crop most. I aim for legibility but in some cases you’ll find imperfections as they lay from the hand of the photographers who printed them or the hand of time itself.
Stored here are the rich and layered flow experiences of many persons living and dead, from enslaved Africans to despised Irishmen and everyone in between. I offer this cabinet with a minimum of interference. All entries are expandable with a click of your mouse. In a spirit of hospitality my door is always left open.
Thanks to the diligent researchers and photographers at the Historic American Buildings Survey. Thanks to the teams of astronomers at the NASA/JPL/SpaceScienceInstitute and the University of Arizona’s Planetary Sciences Institute.
And of course a special thanks to my favorite model and compadre in queer cowboy-art happenings, Mr. Paschal Nash.