Another brief break between shows…
In San Diego I stayed with an old friend, Nancy and her family. Her younger sister Ingrid Bouchard is my oldest friend. We met in Kindergarten and became close friends at age 10, remaining close friends ever since. She lives in Montreal, where she’s happily married with kids. In our teens and […]

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I had a commercial photography career before becoming a full-time artist - in fact it paid for all the money I was losing as an artist. The vast majority of my jobs were, coincidentally, architectural. I would shoot interiors and exteriors for design and architectural firms and for decor magazines. During the day I would shoot expensive […]

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I’m back in my second home: the airport. McCain has seven homes, I have two… The one where I have a fridge, and the one where I sit and wait.  I have 6 or 7 or 8 shows left, so I’m starting to see the light and what a glorious light!
I’m off to Chicago for […]

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I went to Lake Del Valle with Pam on Saturday… there’s nothing like lake swimming.
The area was not what I’m accustomed to in the East. Grass here grows naturally in the winter, for 2 months, then dries to a crisp for the rest of the year. This huge man-made lake (its actually a reservoir that provides water […]

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I wish I had my digital camera, so I could throw up some pictures when I have nothing to say… like now…
Ok, one little thing… I went to the Chicago Westfest music festival last night with my friend Neil. The headliner was a band called the Redwalls who I thought were brilliant (they sound much […]

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Driving back to the Bay Area from Seattle today brought back memories of an amazing hitchhiking trip that I took down the coast, from Seattle to San Diego, many years ago with my friend Gerry. Two guys hitchhiking is a recipe for not getting a lift, so we had to devise ways around this. One […]

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Raoul bailed on me at the last minute last night. It happens occasionally – not often. There’s one city where the stats are reversed: Los Angeles. Four out of five times in L.A., after confirming they will go shooting with me, in the end the person will not show up. This was jarring when I […]

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I spent the greater part of the day freaking out as it finally dawned on me that my schedule is completely out of control. I’m at the airport in San Francisco, on my way to a show in Chicago. After my 18-hour drive from Denver, I had two sleep deprived days to get a thousand things […]

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I got back home this morning… drove all day and night from Denver, with Pam sharing the driving… Now I have today and part of tomorrow to do everything I can’t do on the road.
I fly to Des Moines tomorrow at midnight (with an armful of artwork) to get my van and drive to Chicago for the […]

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I’m sitting at the Des Moines airport waiting area watching the sun rise, and having a (sleep deprived) experience I think many people have. Sometimes I feel so detached that I imagine I’m the only actual person alive, that everything around me is an illusion. The Truman Show and the Matrix are two great film examples […]

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