This morning I was clicking through photos on my computer, while attempting to delete and organize the seven thousand pictures stored in there. As I was plowing through those images, I came across some of the photos I’ve taken in the rain forest in Costa Rica and I thought I would post some of them here.

These are all pictures of reptiles I find in the jungle, or on the porch at night, around the lights that are swarming with insects like the ones from this earlier post? Sometimes they’re  in the kitchen in the afternoon, or on the highway.

 Usually I take a walk in the late afternoon when the jungle is quiet and the foliage still, just before the birds start their pre-sundown singing and feeding. I like that time of day, after a nap and a few hours in the hammock with a book, and just before a shower and cocktail time. It looks dark in most of these pictures, but not many of them are really taken at night, except the boa which was on my friend Helen’s chicken house at Suital Lodge where I have stayed many nights.

 Anyway, here they are, and if you can identify any of these creatures please feel free to leave a comment.  

I think this is a kind of iguana.

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Fer de Lance – Suital Lodge – 5.3.8

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Suital Lodge – 5.2.8

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Helen Scharli – Suital Lodge – 5.8.8

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Rincon – 1.24.8

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Rio Tárcoles – 4.5.11

17th Street – 12.2.11

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Washington Avenue – 12.2.11

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When I was in New York last week I went to the opening of an exhibition of a really interesting artist at the Blackston Gallery on the Lower East Side. The artist is a guy named Justin Adian. He makes beautiful paintings on canvas that has been tightly stretched around foam. They sort of remind me of the work of Claes Oldenburg. Here are some photos from Justin’s studio in Chinatown, when my partner Michael and I went over  the next day to have a look.

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Squish

2010

Oil Enamel on Canvas and Esther Foam

10 x 9 1/2 x 4 inches

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Reverberation

2010

Oil Enamel and Spray Paint on Canvas and Ester Foam

24 x 21 x 7 inches

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My partner Michael Rooks was the commissioner  of the American pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2010, so I went to Venice to visit him and see the Biennale. I flew to Milan and took the train to Venice where I stayed in a 17th century Palazzo for the first few days before moving to the Gritti Palace for the remainder of the trip. I was occupied with the Biennale and all of it’s activities for most of the time, but I did manage to get away on my own for an afternoon and evening, and that’s when most of these photographs were taken. We also visited the Palladio Villa Cornaro in near by Piombino Dese.

I stopped in Milan for one night on the way back to New York and spent the afternoon shopping and walking around the Brera. It was Sunday in Milan, and everything was closed, but I had a nice day wandering.

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When I took this picture I didn’t see the person at the other end of the street looking my way. Funny what  we don’t see when we’re making photographs all the time. {Click the image for a closer look.}

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I can still hear the radio blaring Italian rock and roll through this open window and the boat motors in the canal behind me. I love all the different greens going on in this picture too.  

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I think this installation was by Kazuyo Sejima of SANAA?

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San Marco – Grand Canal – 8.27

Charles Ray “Boy With Frog” – Punta Della Dogana – 8.29

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American Pavilion – Venice Biennale – 8.27

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One of the most over photographed scenes in Venice. I had to try.

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The pallazzo we stayed in for the first few days I was in Venice.

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Entrance to the palazzo.

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The  palazzo.

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The view out the window of the palazzo of the Grand Canal.

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Grand Canal – 8.25

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View of the Grand Canal from our pallazzo – 8.26

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Peggy Guggenheim Museum – 8.28

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San Rocco – 8.26

Venice Biennale – 8.29

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Palladio’s Villa Cornaro – Piombino Dese – 8.28

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 Maybe I should clear something up here ~ I am obsessed with laundry. I don’t really know what it is about it. (I hate doing it!) But, it’s pretty in a picture, how it looks flapping in the wind, those colors against the stone walls. Maybe it’s about childhood for me, memories of my mom hanging  clothes from JC Penney and Sears out on the clothes line to dry next to the morning glories with the little wooden clothes pins. Maybe it’s that laundry hanging on the line exists almost everywhere in this world? All cultures seem to share this practice, after all, it’s the way billions of people get their clothes dry in the midwest, mediterranean, latin america, the tropics, everywhere, except maybe inside the arctic circle? It is sort of intimate. It gives you a little clue as to what the tastes of the occupants inside the window might be ~ maybe tells you something about them? It is one of the simple things, a thing that doesn’t change in this world where everything is changing all the time, just the colors or patterns or fabrics change from place to place, climate to climate ~ I don’t know. I know I love everyday stuff, the unexceptional, the simple things. Where ever I go, I always focus on the clothes hanging out to dry, and the cheap plastic shopping bag everybody is carrying, the utensils they cook with in their kitchens. I have all that stuff from every place I’ve ever been, the everyday items. You can ask my partner, he will tell you that I will drag him everywhere to find that shopping bag every lady is carrying her groceries, firewood, children, san pelligrino, or veuve cliquot in. Anyway, I will always photograph laundry I guess, and Italy is full of it.

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More laundry.

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Milano Centrale – Milano – 8.25

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Duomo di Milano – 8.30

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The view from my hotel room – 8.30

My sexy bathroom – 8.30

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