People
RAPT ATTENTION - Mobile, Alabama (September 13, 2024) I took this photograph at an ArtWalk street fair in Mobile, Alabama. The street was blocked off from evening traffic for the monthly event, and lots of people were strolling the Lower Dauphin Street historic district corridor, enjoying music, food, pop-up markets, and people-watching. An older man sat in a well-worn chair in the street, surrounded by colorful balloons and wearing a balloon artist shirt, taking requests and making the typical assortment of squeaky swords, hats, and creatures for appreciative kids. This picture focuses on two of the children waiting with solemn expressions. The multi-colored balloons frame the sweet open face of the boy as he stands next to his older sister. The colors pop.
READING VENICE -- Venice, Italy (July 23, 2012) -- A young woman reads a book beside a canal in Venice. Her bright red hair and contemporary red-white-and-blue clothes are juxtaposed with ancient Venetian brick and shimmering water.
PROVINCETOWN SWIMMERS - Provincetown, MA (September 26, 2020)
KIMONO CROSSWALK - Kyoto, Japan (November 23, 2023) - There is a unique kimono culture in the ancient city of Kyoto. Many young people regularly wear traditional kimonos for not only weddings and special events but as everyday leisure clothing – encouraged by a restaurants, shops, temples, taxis, and subways that offer discounts to people wearing traditional attire. Men’s kimonos are typically muted in color, but women’s kimonos are often bright, varied, and vibrant – they are literally works of art.
BOWLER HAT CAVALRY - London, England (March 12, 2023)
MUTUAL ATTRACTION - Porto, Portugal (June 29, 2025)
PEACE PARK -- Hiroshima, Japan (November 12, 2023) -- On August 6, 1945, an American military plane exploded the atomic bomb in the skies over the center of Hiroshima, Japan. The target area is now a Peace Memorial Park visited by over a million people every year. Groups of school children wearing school uniforms visit with different color hats.
THEY GROW SO FAST (BOY IN SUNFLOWER FIELD) - Villelongue d'Aude, France (August 1, 2010)
JACK AFTER MIDNIGHT - Provincetown, MA (January 1, 2024)
ANGEL ON A BICYCLE -- Provincetown, MA (December 31, 2024) -- On New Year’s Eve 2024, there appeared to be an angel bicycling on the streets of Provincetown, MA. In addition to her bright wings, she wore a lilac-colored bike helmet. At sunset, the horizon beckoned us all.
AFTER THE SONGS HAVE BEEN SUNG -- Exeter, New Hampshire (January 23, 2026) -- This is a stage in a small performing arts venue called The Word Barn. The show is over. The musicians are gone, but their microphones and instruments remain, grouped around the figures in the surreal backdrop. There are many layers here. The mural is salvaged street art, old trailer doors painted in 2011 by the international artistic duo Herakut in Portsmouth, NH. The figures in the mural are inspired by a poem called "Milking," written in 1872 by Celia Thaxter. The artist Hera is galvanized by fables and fairytales, stories filled with animal metaphors and exploring the human condition. The adaptations keep unfolding. Art builds on art.