We’re Not Telling You Everything, our exhibition about the Wichita Mountains, is moving to a beautiful Arkansas mountain in August. Don House and I will show our photography and Sy Hoahwah will have his poems at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute. Located on top of Petit Jean Mountain in central Arkansas, the Institute’s grounds used to be part of Governor Rockefeller’s cattle ranch. We love visiting this unique spot and are thrilled to have our exhibition in the historic Show Barn Hall. We’ll be at the Institute to install our work next week, and I’m looking forward to exploring the farm and watching the sunset from the edge of the mountain after we’re done. The Institute is hosting an opening reception on Thursday, August 3, from 3 to 4:30 pm, and we’ll be doing an artist talk/exhibition walk-through during the event. The reception is free, but guests are asked to pre-register. The members of the marketing team at the Rockefeller Institute have been wonderful. I love the “posters” they created for Don, Sy, and me (click on the images to read the captions):

“It is a love of people really. It determined that much of my work would be portraiture, and even in the most remote of wilderness settings — places that I seek out — it is the human trace that makes me set up my tripod and unpack my camera — rock walls, foundation traces, chimney falls and, perhaps most significant, cemeteries.”

“Once I learned to give up control, I found places and stories through a form of drifting and through many happy accidents.”

Toward Mount Scott it is sharp as a knife The bad roads lead to lost roads. The lost roads lead to the same empty spot. People sometimes go to lonely places for power. Eagles are sometimes choked, dragonflies lassoed. Smaller birds follow ghosts, to eat off the bugs. Line of barbed wire marks the boundary between this world and the next.