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From July 18th through July 21st, 2009, I'll be the featured artist at the 10th annual Metanexus Conference at the Mission Palms in Tempe, Arizona. Very happy to be asked. Very happy to bring a little magic to their conference. The link to my page on the conference's website is above.
"The Ghost at Coalmine Canyon, Hopi/Navajo Joint Use Area, Arizona" (c) 2009 Stu Jenks
"Ploy at Arcosanti, Cordes Junction, Arizona" (c) 2009 Stu Jenks
"Flam Chen at Arcosanti, Cordes Junction, Arizona" (c) 2009 Stu Jenks
[Here is a Projekt Records promo. Two of my images have been used in the graphic. Projekt's a fantastic independent record label, run with love and sweat and deep courage, by Sam Rosenthal, one of my favorite people. Check out their website and perhaps you'll enjoy riding the dark wave too.]
[A fellow traveler, Geoffrey Notkin, wrote a very nice piece for the Tucson Citizen's new blog. A little embarrassing at times, such high praise from a colleague, but very satisfying knowing that Geoff gets what I'm trying to do. Thanks, buckaroo. Lastly, the above image is entitled "Cradle Rocks, Dragoon Mountains, Arizona", and is featured in the article, and the weblog entry about me, on Notkin's The Logical Lizard page is called "The Sublime Spirals of Photographer Stu Jenks."]
[Photograph by Pete Conrad, of Alan Bean, from Apollo 12; and Painting by Alan Bean entitled "Is Anyone Out There?". Check out Alan's great paintings on his website.]
[My Dad wasn't quite as crude as Walt, but close. Walt is a good man. So was my Dad. and I like to think that Stuart Sr., would have done what Walt did. This great movie makes me miss my father. I give this new Clint Eastwood film very high praise. Rent it, and perhaps you'll like it as much as I do. Love you Dad. Love you too Walt.]
"Coral Bean Flower, Cradle Rocks, Dragoon Mountains, Arizona" (c) 2009 Stu Jenks
I have strong masculine and feminine sides in me. I'm competitive to a fault when arguing about politics and I tend to clothesline, when I get beat on defense, on the basketball court, but I also often cry during episodes of "The West Wing" and I weep with joy, everytime, at the end of "Wall:E". I cherish that soft spot on the side of a woman's neck, but I also dig the sandpaper roughness of the boulders at Cradle Rock, in the Dragoon Mountains.
I've always been this way. I like the balance that seems to come from acknowledging this internal push-and-pull. I like it. I like me. I like her. (Loving is easy. Liking is hard.)
This flower is a very masculine/feminine flower, don't you think?
And so is she.
"Desert Tortoise at Silverbell Mine, Arizona" (c) 2009 Stu Jenks