last wednesday eric and i borrowed our friend kim's van (thanks kim!) and drove his painting out to the rockford art museum, where it will be showing in the 2008 rockford midwestern (a biennial juried exhibition featuring the best works from artist over a nine state area). the show opens july 11th and runs through october 5th. while we were there we took the opportunity to explore a bit of downtown rockford.

"thank god i called"


"open second floor"




these boys were so great, ah muffler men.




warehouse-y good






we have no idea what this building is (even after inspecting it).




"remains of the dog"


evidence of the big rains




"your mom doing you"


i love you octopus you deserve 2 pics.

my sweet friend and fellow (fantastic) photographer gwynne johnson was guest editing weekly ezine dark sky magazine and chose to feature my work. thanks gwynne, you are the best! issue #7.7 - photography.

a couple of pics from the show at the carrie secrist gallery. the show will be up until july 12th. thanks to everyone who came out on such a rainy night.





a shot of my photograph (also pictured a photograph by scott fishman and work by lora fosberg, i am such a huge fan of lora's work, everything she does is fantastic.


the big hit of the night was dietrich wegner's mushroom cloud playhouse that people actually played in. fantastic!






including our esteemed gallery owner


and...
equally long overdue is eric mecum's new website

i am very excited to be participating in the upcoming show at the carrie secrist gallery. the gallery is located at 835 west washington in chicago.



i am showing a 40"x60" print of my orange balloon.



i hope to see you there.

i knew it was going to be a good trip right from the beginning.


and then more balloons, i could not resist.




and some strange bush.


there is a downtown, i know, i stayed there.


jodi at venice beach. such a nice girl, she makes friends where ever she goes.


more from venice...




quite the dapper bears.


how did they get that up there?


we had a great time at our friend ann's bbq...


and met some fun sisters, alicia and jenna.


did i say it was a good time? that is a bit of an understatement. ann joins the sisters.


huge plants and shopping carts what else do you expect on your walk home.


there is so much more both documented and not. thanks jodi for an amazing trip.

there was lots of great art to see at the big artropolis event. thank you to everyone that stopped in to visit, and everyone who signed my mailing list.

here are a few shots from my booth on the 8th floor


the painting in the background of the wire dog (titled: blue dog) is by eric mecum


and one of my photographs hanging in the NEXT show with the carrie secrist gallery on the 7th floor.