https://bethatempty.org/new-index daily 0.75 2017-06-23 https://bethatempty.org/writings daily 0.75 2024-08-02 https://bethatempty.org/writings/2024/3/15/on-the-irish-famine-and-gaza monthly 0.5 2024-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/245f7ec4-6d78-4f45-b3eb-1992f2c3247e/Irish+Famine+4.jpeg Writings - On the Irish Famine and Gaza - Make it stand out Irish Famine 4 https://bethatempty.org/writings/2022/7/9/a-journey-not-soon-forgotten monthly 0.5 2022-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/57af978b-b69b-467f-b0c7-b7f435c16e42/Sam_04062022_LargeJPEG_for_Website_Publication27.jpg Writings - A Journey Not Soon Forgotten - Make it stand out Acrylic on canvas with snow as catalyst and bits of petrified snowflakes 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1549c85e-5ce5-40c3-918d-16e75eeebda8/Sam_04062022_LargeJPEG_for_Website_Publication30.jpg Writings - A Journey Not Soon Forgotten - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://bethatempty.org/writings/2022/6/14/snow-flora-amp-fauna monthly 0.5 2022-06-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/d0ec1ffc-598f-4427-91ba-59159959cdff/Sam_04062022_LargeJPEG_for_Website_Publication16.jpg Writings - Snow, Flora, & Fauna - Make it stand out "Cartography" {detail} Snowflakes and acrylic on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/4ad6f515-6ff1-420a-a834-ddddab8ba637/Sam_04062022_LargeJPEG_for_Website_Publication1.jpg Writings - Snow, Flora, & Fauna - Make it stand out "Nature Morte (Still Life)" Fauna, flora and acrylic on canvas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/7d261312-3c26-4168-b570-2d8e3e60ce66/Sam_04062022_LargeJPEG_for_Website_Publication2.jpg Writings - Snow, Flora, & Fauna - Make it stand out "Nature Morte (Still Life)" {detail} https://bethatempty.org/writings/2021/4/17/organic-destruction monthly 0.5 2021-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1618669064480-9L19GH047DJPRB4RPLZL/12+Outside+In.jpg Writings - "Organic Destruction" "Outside In" 2019 36 x 24 inches acrylic on canvas, with snow visibly absent $6,000 The piece is made outdoors with quintessentially "outside" material -- snow -- but is made to be shown inside. It gives a sense of portraying a distant planet -- or your own insides. The title is also an allusion to the animated Pixar film "Inside Out", which deals with emotional issues felt by a girl, exhibiting the capacity of major US corporations to produce content that prods into psychological issues. Here, the snow "breakup" technique is a metaphor for emotional release, a letting go, or landslide. We understand the "outside world" while we are materially made of it. The use of organic material and processes is in strong contrast to Pixar's use of artificial "unreal" computer graphics, though "Outside In" is "animated" in that it features vibrant colors and depicts motion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1618669278641-K84RLJE8849JQG29CK0U/IMG_5500+%282%29.jpg Writings - "Organic Destruction" "Purpose of the Petroleum Age: Bessie’s Bosom" (detail) Completed 2021 31 x 23 inches acrylic on car radiator with samaras and spider webs $2,500 This piece is made from the failed radiator of an old car nicknamed “Bessie”. It is the "purpose of the petroleum age” in that it not only is made from an auto part, but with acrylic paint -- plastic derived from petroleum product. Most of the colors used are either of “Bessie” or a female breast, playing with the tendency of people to form an intimate bond with their automobiles. Visible are circles (wheels) and some areola-looking elements. Samaras in the piece allude to flora such as leaves getting under the hood of a car. Ultimately, the car, and what it symbolizes, will fail and Nature will work its way in and get the last laugh. Indeed, while the piece is made from an artificial object (a radiator) having an artificial substance (acrylic spray paint) and an artificial process (sanding down) repeatedly applied to it -- its final form has distinctly "organic looking" detailing to it, viewable with a microscope. https://bethatempty.org/writings/2021/4/11/report-on-cbs-burlington-affiliate-wcax-maryland-artist-refining-snowflake-art monthly 0.5 2021-04-11 https://bethatempty.org/writings/2021/4/11/washington-post-review-of-my-invisibly-presentvisibly-absent-show-artist-explores-the-dissonance-between-humanity-and-the-world monthly 0.5 2021-04-11 https://bethatempty.org/writings/2020/9/11/my-9-11-and-jack-whittens monthly 0.5 2021-04-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1618662245519-0B8CXJPPV6V9E80E43T4/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+12.56.15+AM.jpg Writings - My 9-11 and Jack Whitten's Jack Whitten, “9-11-01” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1618662318897-AFWD6S3MXCZIZIPYU8XX/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+12.01.18+AM.jpg Writings - My 9-11 and Jack Whitten's "The Scorching Sun Which Brings Them Forth" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1618662425025-1LYA71WH5UXER80MD6NI/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+1.19.53+AM.jpg Writings - My 9-11 and Jack Whitten's https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1618662470597-PD8X9SIMCWLOSD9335C7/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+12.00.53+AM.jpg Writings - My 9-11 and Jack Whitten's https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1618662509625-9X6TSDJPA4CRRZTWX3YU/Screen+Shot+2020-09-11+at+1.22.37+AM.jpg Writings - My 9-11 and Jack Whitten's https://bethatempty.org/writings/2020/8/29/show-invisibly-presentvisibly-absent-at-gallery-al-quds monthly 0.5 2020-09-20 https://bethatempty.org/work-avenue daily 1.0 2025-05-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1498249814015-AYODFJFDT4WZ3C41IFD5/parched.jpg Work - Parched Watercolor on paper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1499109840327-XGFNQE0E1I5Y06SV3EZ2/rain1.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1490652696893-KL7IMV846E0SKFCKG0KK/_MG_6203.jpg Work - What Leaves Leave, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1499115254047-BKC7T26XFG0QJFAA8L7E/flake.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1491338080439-L4S1HY9HT6SIVHIB9QV5/_MG_6122.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1499122618987-R86KHLL34AZHUU3VEKAU/_MG_6193.jpg Work - Untitled, 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1500667625939-OA2JR3SIJF9PL2HVRISR/freez1.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1500668936994-Q6G6UQXYG29FII6IINCS/freeze%2B2.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1500911342140-G7ZINS95DEP8IZD5QX8C/chame.jpg Work - The Human Condition, 2006 Chame: chair and frame; connected with metal, wood and stone, often covered in barnacles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1500937961736-NFS9ZF98B6ND9TML9SNI/ce.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1499112862372-IJSDQOSQP9K1U3ENJPZF/snow+detail.jpg Work - Detail of Ago, 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1499114518321-MF57Z8Q660FUP0RL5QEP/layer+hydrangya.jpg Work - A Secret Path, 2016 Acrylic. Hydrangia invisibly present. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/586600da197aea7b3835a7e9/1499110455435-OQK7OQO4Y5UNN5DNES5H/petals.jpg Work - Feast, 2017 Done at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. https://bethatempty.org/home daily 0.75 2017-03-30 https://bethatempty.org/about daily 0.75 2022-07-12