Bruce Springsteen's Guitar features my Mountain Dream Tarot card: Three of Swords

It was a great surprise to see my Three of Swords on Springsteen’s guitar used in Springsteen on Broadway. He had already used the image before as the disc icon on his CD Magic in 2008. Here’s a video that describe the experience of having the image on his cd.

Nine libraries have acquired Springs Victory: Kore Comes Back

These libraries have added my latest book Springs Victory: Kore Comes Back to their special collections. Thanks to the Beinecke at Yale; Herron School of Art in Indianapolis; the universities of Arizona,Central Florida,Illinois.Duke,Brown,Florida Atlantic; and The Eastman Museum.
The book is the myth of Persephone written entirely in surnames that I photograph on gravestones.
Here’s the final chapter of the book:

Hurrah! Demeter regains rising companion! April weathers start over during young persons advent.
Milder airs usher greener interval. Sun beams stream nicely overall. All welcome Mayweather bliss!
Dance music cheers seed sowers. Ready seeds begin to sprout. Wheat shoots greenup.
Springborn lamb capers on fuller fields. Olive trees flower, fruit groves prosper.
Prior mourning over, June favors morning outing. Merry laughter rings.
Pollen streams over July corn silks Wheat thresher bales holy miracle.
Eager sons eatwell, grow fat. August days offer overall welfare.
True joy shines on perfect paradise.

My New Interpretation of the Myth of Persephone

I have continued to take photographs of surnames on gravestones that function as parts of speech. Using these words I have written several poems and created artists books. My latest project has been to write a version of the myth of Persephone. Mine is called Springs Victory: Kore Comes Back (Kore being an alternate name for Persephone) and I have completed it in two formats. There is an open edition that can be ordered from my webpage store using Paypal ($35 plus shipping) and a limited edition.

Mountain Dream Tarot at SF MOMA

Last week I visited SFMoma to see my Mountain Dream Tarot cards on display in The Good 70′s exhibition curated by Linde Lehtinen. She created this exhibition by featuring the work of photographs in their collection by photographers who were pictured in Mike Mandel’s Photographers Baseball card series. My “baseball” portrait was on display in the case along with my photographic Tarot cards.

SF MOMA video about Mountain Dream Tarot in their collection.

This interview was recorded while I was visiting San Francisco in August 2017. SF MOMA owns a sample pack of my original hand colored photographic machine stitched Mountain Dream Tarot cards.