Kemah Boardwalk At Night (March 14, 2003) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Everything comes back,
in the end,
having meaning and value
only if I give it meaning and value.
Great art exist
only because I bring it to life,
actualized according to my purpose.
— kenne
Photo-Artistry by kenne
Flatspine Stickseed — Image by kenne
― from Song of a Nature Lover by
Oleander Blossoms — Tiled Gallery by kenne
— Leontyne Price
View from the Top, Near Barnum Rock On Mt. Lemmon (10/05/12) — Image by kenne
View Above Hutch’s Pool In the Santa Catalina Mountains — Image by kenne
— John P. Milton
Sunset Over The Tucson Mountains — Image by kenne
— Ganga White
Tourist In Other People’s Reality (1974) — a caricature of kenne
In 1974 an artist friend I worked with at a publishing company drew this caricature of me trying to include all the things he felt identified with me. For a long time, it hung on the wall in my office(s). One day I used a sharpy and wrote on the glass of the framed poster, “I’m a tourist in other people’s reality,” which sums up my life. I borrowed the line from Susan Sontag’s book (On Photography), “The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.”
— kenne
Pinned on the wall in the drawing is the Edmund Burke quote:
“No men can act with effect who do not act in concert;
no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence;
no men can act with confidence who are not bound together
with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.”
Catalina Foothills Sunset — Image by kenne
I went to the [desert] because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
— Henry David Thoreau
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— kenne
Rose Canyon Lake On Mt. Lemmon — Image by kenne
“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize.
If you go off into a far, far forest
and get very quiet,
you’ll come to understand that
you’re connected with everything.”
– Alan Watts
Sunset After the Rains — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Desert Globemallow — Images by kenne
— kenne
Female Phainopepla Photo-Artistry by kenne
— Paulo Coelho
Digital Image by kenne
Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I
not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside,
looking into the shining world? Because, properly
attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion.
Can one be passionate about the just, the
ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit
to no labor in its cause? I don’t think so.
— from “What I Have Learned So Far” by Mary Oliver
Swimp Boats At The Rocky Point (Puerto Peñasco) Port — Computer Painting by kenne
Becoming is Superior to Being 