Carnivore

Feeling rather carnivorous today.

Roof Top Gardens

Photograph Tim Hurley 2010

It is definitely the time of year to consider gardens. This is my favourite garden design and allows me to imagine a more exciting future. It is designed and planted as the roof of the Natural History Museum in San Francisco. It is planted with native grasses, sedges, flowers and plants that provide food for birds and insects. It also functions as insulation and a delightful place to gather one's thoughts.

Held Together By Toothpicks

Musee , San Francisco photo Tim Hurley 2010

This world is held together by toothpicks.

Tim and Me

This is what we look like.

Tim and me in May, 2010

And How Are We Today?

This is how we are feeling today.

Photo done by Tim Hurley May 2010

Automaton at the Musee

Found these lovely automatons at the Musee on the Pier in San Francisco.

Beautiful, handmade and very, very dusty.

All photos taken by Tim Hurley May, 2010

National Aboriginal Day

Rolling Thunder Mountain is one of the most moving and remarkable works I have ever witnessed. It was sculpted and worked on for years by Chief Rolling Thunder as a way to honour the struggles of the American Indian. He built a home from pop bottles, tons of cement and the things he picked up out of the desert. Some of this work is three stories high.

His neighbours hated the place and burnt down a hostel he built out of caring and concern for aboriginal kids. This broke his heart and he stopped working.

A few people are trying to care for the place and have managed to get it designated a protected place in Nevada. They get by with a few donations from passersby and caring individuals.


Butterfly Woman - Rolling Thunder Mountain
photo 2010 Tim Hurley Patricia Chauncey

Butterfly woman with car windshield and human figure on house

Photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey April 2010

Airplane Sculpture

Photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey April 2010

Abandoned car fence with side view of Rolling Thunder Mountain

Photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey April 2010

Three storey house made from cement, tree branches, cement car windshields and pop bottles

Photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey April 2010

Bath house

Photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey April 2010

Detail back of house with tall support structure

Photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey April 2010

Burnt out remains of Homeless Youth Hostel

Photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey April 2010

Three storey support structure surrounding house

Photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey
April 2010

Aboriginal gargoyles

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Three storey structure from the highway

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey April 2010

Detail of house

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Shrine for lost aboriginal children with cattle skull and plastic doll

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

So here is a glimpse to remind me of the struggles of my aboriginal friends, neighbours and family.

Lookit What I Did

Been playing around with the computer without help. Obviously needs a bit more tweaking but this is the start in reclaiming imagery that works better for me.

Tim's sight has improved slightly. He is feeling so much better. He is still on lots of steroids to improve the optic inflammation. Rather like living with Data or a gerbil on crack. Made for a very interesting few weeks.

One more Wells project finally complete. Will return Jean Macintosh jewelry by tomorrow hopefully. Made her a little . Paula Scott's shawl and the nightmare mobile for Pat Schmidt's are both well underway. Cannot believe it sucked me so dry to complete projects.

Have been so completely distracted lately.

Textural Obsession

Here are some of the textural images that Tim and I collected on our April trip . I pointed ...he clicked ... vice versa.

These will probably all be duplicated in my sketchbooks and inspiration books for further explorations.

Dinosaur Footprint San Francisco
photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey
April, 2010

Phone Book San Francisco Chinatown
photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey
April 2010



Sidewalk Chinatown San Francisco
photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey
April 2010

Note Rest Antique Player Piano San Francisco

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Stone Wall Rolling Thunder Mountain, Nevada

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Serpent Stone Rolling Thunder Mountain, Nevada

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Serpent Stone detail Rolling Thunder Mountain,Nevada

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Copper Stone Nevada

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April, 2010

Wood and barbed wire Nevada

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Weathered wood Nevada

photo Tim Hurley and Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Weathered sewer pipe

photo Tim Hurley Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Rusted Sewer Pipe detail

photo Tim Hurley Patricia Chauncey

April 2010

Rolling Inspiration

Some of the images from travels to Pendleton, Oregon and the Great Salt Lake, Utah.
Tim took the pictures before his surgery. I point... he shoots. I growl and complain...he drives. I leap out of moving cars when inspired to do so...he slows down. He leads...I follow...I lead ...he follows.

Can't wait to get back to normal. Or the new normal.

Spiral Jetty Salt Lake, Utah 2010

Deteriorated oil can in Salt Lake, Utah 2010

Salt foam Salt Lake , Utah 2010

Bone and wing details Spiral Jetty, Utah 2010

Abandoned Bouy Spiral Jetty Salt Lake, Utah 2010

Dead kangaroo rat Salt Lake , Utah 2010

Salt, salt and more salt Salt Lake , Utah 2010

Detail Spiral Jetty Great Salt Lake, Utah 2010

Spiral Jetty Installation detail Salt Lake, Utah 2010

Bone and wing. Death in the Spiral Jetty Salt Lake Utah 2010

Bone on the beach near the Spiral Jetty 2010

Spiral Jetty, Installation Salt Lake, Utah

Me at moment of discovery of the amazing installation called the Spiral Jetty. I am so thrilled I am actually running over the rocks. Salt Lake, Utah. 2010

Jetty near Spiral Jetty Great Salt Lake , Utah 2010

Salt Pool near Spiral Jetty Salt Lake , Utah 2010

Mineral encrusted rock Spiral Jetty Salt Lake, Utah 2010

Miles and miles of salt. Great Salt Lake, Utah 2010

Jetty in great Salt Lake near Spiral Jetty Great Salt Lake, Utah 2010

Salt encrustation on the beach of Great Salt Lake near Spiral Jetty 2010

Salt encrusted remnant in the Great Salt Lake near Spiral Jetty 2010

Rock near Spiral Jetty 2010

Lichen and salt encrusted rock at the Spiral Jetty 2010

Delicate Azure Butterfly above the Spiral Jetty. Strength and Beauty 2010

Lichen encrusted rock Spiral Jetty Salt Lake Utah 2010

Ornery cow and new calves Road to Spiral Jetty Ranch Utah 2010

Hills near family sheep ranch in Pendleton, Oregon 2010

Wild hare near Pendleton Oregon

Abandoned Ranch Pendelton Oregon 2010

Abandoned Ranch Pendleton Oregon 2010

Wild Prairie Lily Pendleton, Oregon 2010

Wild Shooting Star Pendleton, Oregon

Cracked Roof Tiles Abandoned Ranch Pendleton, Oregon 2010

Gravestone found while looking for Great Great Grandmother in Umatilla, Oregon 2010

Stay tuned for images of Rolling Thunder Mountain and vertical and roof top gardens in San Francisco.