Stu Jenks' Fezziwig Press

"West of Currant, Nevada"

"West of Currant, Nevada" (c) 2008 Stu Jenks

"The Ghost at Coalmine Canyon, Arizona"

"The Ghost at Coalmine Canyon, Arizona" (c) 2008 Stu Jenks

[Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.]

The Transpersonal Papers: Chapter Fifteen: "The Highway of Joyous Tears"

The Transpersonal Papers: Chapter Fifteen: "The Highway of Joyous Tears, U.S. 50 East, Nevada"

[Was it "Yes" by Coldplay on the CD player? Was it the blue and white snowy peaks in front of me? Was it the straight-arrow road? Was it just me being thankful to be alive, with eyes to see, a mind to think and a heart to feel? Was it something else, mysterious and wonderful that has no words, but only happy tears? Yes, to all of the above. And a little 'first' for me that day. This is the first photograph that I've even taken when I was crying, quakingly crying, weepingly happy. Thank God my long lens has image stabilization. I love The Great Basin. More than photographs can show. More than words can say.]

"In The Giant Forest"

 

"In The Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California" (c) 2008 Stu Jenks

"Methuselah Hoops #2"

"Methuselah Hoops #2" (c) 2008 Stu Jenks

[Another shot from the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California's White Mountains. This one taken with my trusty old Rollei. Quite a different feel than the other Bristlecone Pine image below, shot from the same angle on the same night, with my Canon Digital.]

The Bristlecone Timeline by V. Moerbitz

"At Last Light"

"At Last Light:

The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, California"

(c) 2008 Stu Jenks

"He's Not Here"

"It's Open Studio Tour Time, But He's Not Here"

Back in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, there was a bar I frequented called "He's Not Here." The bartender would answer the phone, saying 'He's not here.' Didn't matter if I was there or not: In many ways I was never really there. (I was a believer in the Stay-High Philosophy back then.) I was there, though, those nights when I was talking to Patti Fay. Oh, yea.

The Fall Open Studio Tour is this weekend. Crane, Dawn, Rubina, Mary Lou, Kathryn, Russ, Loren, Dana, and Maurice will all be at their studios at 549 N. 7th Avenue, Tucson, AZ., this Saturday and Sunday, from Noon to Five.

But I won't be there. I leaving at Dark:Thirty, tomorrow morning, for a week long photo shoot/hiking trip/vacation up north.

But I'll be there in spirit and my work will be there for display and for sale.

A good number of new large D'Vinci images are now up in the hallway outside my studio, and the above nine artists will have some great new work as well, so please come by and see them and see my newer stuff too, if you are in the neighborhood. Look for free postcards on the bookshelf by my door. And also look for 13 x 19 archival pigment prints for sale for $75 (two days only) in a basket by Crane Day's door. He will gladly answer your questions and take your money.

Also, in 2009, look for new tiny work from me. I'll be trying to market more work toward the middle class and working class, and less toward the upper class, in the coming years. I'm planning on making very small handmade (so to speak) individually-framed photographs at very reasonable prices. And also, look for perhaps a new CD of StuMusic near the end of the year.

So, come by BR-549 Studios, even though I'm not there, this Saturday and Sunday, from Noon to five.

I'll be either at Coalmine Canyon on Hopi land (Saturday), or on my way to The Great Sand Dunes in Colorado (Sunday) or maybe someplace completely unexpected, given which way the wind blows or the snow falls.

See you when I get back.

Love, Light and Luck,

Stu

[P.S. My mother, who is suffering from dementia and lives just up the hill, today said the oddest, yet most wonderful thing. "When you were conceived, it was with Love and with Passion," she said. Great stuff, Mary. That's her at the top of this post, by the way, on the move out to Arizona last Spring, and that is one of the new D'Vinci prints for sale at my studio.]

"...this is Man on the Moon..."

"...this is Man on the Moon..." - from Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, soon after 9:00 p.m., Tucson time, when Barack Obama was elected 44th President of the United States of America.

[9:41: Dirk Matthews, a very good friend, just called from Grant Park in Chicago. He's waiting for the man to speak. Then he told me that he just got a call on his cell, from a family member, who said they are dancing in the streets of Ivory Coast. We both cried all over again. It's a new day.]

Come On, Commonwealth!!!

Yes, I know, I know. Once Ohio was called for Obama, at 7:30 Tucson Time, it was a done deal.

But as a point of pride, I was really pulling for the Commonwealth of Virginia, the place of my birth and the home of my ancestors, and the home of Robert E. Lee, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Arthur Ashe, and some of the sweetest people I know, would come through with a win for Barack. I was losing hope just an hour ago, but now Fairfax County is coming in, and it's Obama-1,414,102 to McCain-1,385,906 with 87% of the precincts reporting, at 8:24 Mountain Standard Time. Hot Diggetty Damn!!! And special thanks to Victoria, and the entire Hardy clan in Lancaster County, for getting out the vote. Thanks, y'all. The South is rising again and this time, a black man from Chicago is leading the way.

I'm so happy. I have tears in my ears and I can barely type.