Photographs of feeling mirrored in the mind

Experience of man; evidence of life and of living are brought to us through diaries found in attics,
through words handed down, through ancestral relics: a pistol, a sword, old buttons, a shred of grey cloth.

...Off the interstates and removed from the resounding nostrums of the New South, lies our remembered world, the world of my childhood: old men in khakis whittling in the shade of a crossroads grocery, a domino game on the back stoop of a service station, an advertisement for a backwoods mortuary on an R.C. Cola sign, an abandoned frame church with piles of used tires in front and a scrawled poster on top of them proclaiming 'Fried Chicken, Two Miles,' a conversation between an ancient man and a woman in a store which serves also as the Trailways stop: 'How you doin' today, Annie?' 'Not too pretty good, but givin' thanks for bein' here.'

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Above are scrapshots taken on a recent treasure hunt, which we like to do as often as our schedules will allow.
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excerpt from Coming on Back, Willie Morris

Down By the Old Mainstream

Dad somewhere in California, '65 or so

LISTEN:

  Golden Smog Radio King

"In my father's world, an unwavering belief in and reverence for the power
of music occupied the space society usually reserved for religion."
–  

Jay Farrar,

  Fallen Cars and Junkyard Dogs

Spot Illustrations: Verily Magazine

Recent work: Spot Illustration

 
CLIENT: Verily Magazine  
CREATIVE DIRECTION: Jane Riley

Have you heard of Verily Magazine? They've started an honest and uplifting conversation with modern women concerning style, relationships, lifestyle and culture for all of us to relate our experiences. The first full issue (June/July) will only be available in print, and will be launching this month. Above are bits of the full page illustration commissioned by Verily that'll be included in the issue. Thanks to Jane and the gals at Verily for being so easy to work with! Looking forward to seeing the spread by The Weaver House, too. 

Birthday on the Big River

Just a few shots documenting my birthday this year, a day we spent on the Big River alongside eachother; all about us hardworking water, forests of rock and branch and old houses fairly ruined. It really was the best. I'm looking forward to this year, have a feeling it'll be a big one.

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