the frank man's vision

Monona Terrace lakeside window panels, a photo by McBeth on Flickr.

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

-- Richard Neutra

abruption

reflective abstract, a photo by McBeth on Flickr.

Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans / the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

-- Susan Sontag

distance

marbled moon, a photo by McBeth on Flickr.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

another rubber tree plant

monona terrace ironman set up begins, a photo by McBeth on Flickr.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

-- Richard Buckminster Fuller