Conques Sainte-Foy

Markus Brunetti has been working on this project for ten years. Some of the images have been constructed over that entire time.

Brunetti studies each church, cathedral, and cloister he photographs closely before taking hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of frames during similar light and weather conditions. He shoots everything from a street-level perspective without cranes or drones and then, along with Schoener, he mounts and reconstructs the facades “in our own intensive process of composition” that allows for the viewer to appreciate all of the intricate details of the structures.

David Rosenburg, Behold, Slate Magazine.

"They challenge the viewer to take the time to carefully observe them, and not to succumb to the habit of rapid consumption so common to our media-driven, visually addicted society."

Printed and displayed at large scale, they invite pondering.

Mountain Home Entryway.

Winters are our long season, at elevation 8,600 ft in the mountains of Colorado. With the low sun angle leaving a treacherous icy path to our home, we had to come up with an alternative way to approach our front door.

The solution was to create a welcoming entry through an ancient aspen grove, shady in the summer but open to the warming rays of the sun in December and January.

Finnegan was a great helper in the heavy lifting, as we double-teamed the slate slabs across the drainage channel along the road. It was my goal to get this complete before the snow flies this year, and given the 34℉ temperature this morning--August 19, summer yet--that could be sooner rather than later.

Charley Hunter.

Harlow Fog, 2015. Water-based oil and encaustic, on linen.

I've saved images of this guy's work about a half-dozen times, intending to memorialize them, but haven't gotten around to posting them here.

Each time I encounter one I stop and ponder it. The mystery draws me in, like a magnet, and holds me right at the edge. I can't quite complete the story, but I'm just short. Dynamic place, unsettling.

So I study the technique, read about Charley the person. Then return to the image to gaze into its depths again.

His palette:

raw umber
oxide red
deep green
ultramarine blue
titanium buff
raw sienna

He's also a noteworthy, colorful guy, irreverent, with not a little Fool in him.

Inspiring in his work and in his life

Did I mention he loves the railroad?