julie baugnet
As a painter Julie Baugnet is inclined to pay careful attention to the details of her garden. Reading Aldo Leopold's conservationist classic A Sand County Almanac inspired her to look beyond the artist's domain of color and textures to the physical phenomena in her backyard oasis. Compelled by Leopold's practice of phenology the study of the chronological occurrence of natural events, such as bird migrations and flower blooming, and the comparison of dates of occurrence from year to year she...
Rick Hoblitt
The life of a freelance illustrator, workshop teacher, and self professed amateur naturalist does not come with fringe benefits, at least not the monetary kind. Hannah Hinchman is characteristically candid about the drawbacks of such an existence I've never thought much about money in the bank. As long as I had enough for cat food and coffee, that was plenty. But now here I am at fifty with no appreciable assets. And yet she has accumulated assets that many people would envy. Since she was...
John Copeland
More than midway through a project to photograph everything he eats for a year, Tucker Shaw says he can now see a story in a bagel. What began as pure documentation has taken on a deeper meaning for Shaw, who carries a digital camera with him at all times so he can snap a snack or a four-course meal before indulging. The process has become more important than the product, he says of the photographs he began taking in January 2004. I never expected to find so much to consider in my food, such as...
thomas oslund
It's a one-stop shop, landscape architect Thomas Oslund says of the black- bound blank books he has been carrying with him since he was an undergraduate. At first the books were more about replicating others' ideas. Now they reflect the cycle of his varied projects, which include corporate gardens, memorials, golf courses, and vineyards. Drawings for a specific site give way to meeting notes and questions jotted during phone calls. There are sketches from his travels and occasional drawings by...
DRAWING FROM LIFE Uhb
It started with showers At fourteen Renato Umali so disliked bathing that he began tracking how much time he spent at it. As a competitive cyclist in high school, he kept charts to document his progress. In college, concerned by his growing Burger King consumption, he logged his visits and what he ate, along with his sleeping patterns, car-related statistics, and a rating of his day on a one-to-five scale. When a girlfriend complained that they were not spending enough quality time together,...