Dan's Cabin
120mm transparency, 2012
120mm transparency, 2012
Thursday March 31st is the deadline for creatives to submit their work for
consideration to the 2016 Artist in Residence Program hosted by the Friends of the Porkies in the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness of Michigan.
If selected you'll spend up to three weeks nestled in a splendid cabin, just
off a sparsely traveled trail through some of the most pristine wilderness that
remains in the upper Midwest.
The Friends are gracious hosts. My time there in October of 2012 was
among the best two weeks of my life. I did some of the finest work of my life,
while there. Everything in the slide show below that's from "Ontonagon
County" was captured during my stay at Dan's Cabin as a guest of the Friends. The work from the Keweenaw too, which while normally about as remote a place as one can get in the Midwest, is just a day trip from Dan's Cabin.
Both I and my art came away inestimably enriched by the Residency experience. What's better than that?
I dropped in here today to tout the program because I'm committed to
it, as I intend to be so long as I and it survive. My residency was that good,
in all ways.
Upon review, I've already written so much about the Porkies and my stay
at Dan's Cabin that we'd best rely on that. So while I apologise for filling this
post with links to previous posts, those serve our purpose here.
Follow the links below, as you will. If you've questions, I've likely supplied a few answers. If
you've doubts about submitting, those should be assuaged.
If you're unfamiliar with the Porcupine Mountains, start with these so you'll know where you are:
Lake of the Clouds @ Sunrise
4x5 transparency, 2003
Then travel on to Dan's Cabin and my residency there:
120mm transparency, 2012
Finally, let's revisit Nonesuch, which is in the park and just down the
road from where you'll stay, if selected.
Nonesuch Cornice
Digital Capture, 2012
Opportunity for creatives might seem rich these days, but most of that doesn't occur in the real world and on the occasion one comes along, just try
getting someone else to defray the lodging portion of your freight for choosing to get out and work in it.
And if the images I've chosen here make the place seem resolutely gloomy, well, sometimes it is. You're just down the road from mighty Superior, which makes its own weather after all. And I typically shot only transparency film besides. Consequently, high contrast scenes were only rarely my friend.
But rest assured, the sun shines bright on the Porcupine Mountains too:
And if the images I've chosen here make the place seem resolutely gloomy, well, sometimes it is. You're just down the road from mighty Superior, which makes its own weather after all. And I typically shot only transparency film besides. Consequently, high contrast scenes were only rarely my friend.
But rest assured, the sun shines bright on the Porcupine Mountains too:
Division
120mm transparency, 2012
I say go for it. Time's a fleetin', after all...
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