VTVPA (Victims of Trafficking & Violence Protection Act)

Here's an entry I sent out today for the Annual Human Rights Art Exhibition in  South Texas College and the University of Monterrey, Mexico. 

Allow The Forest

I've been taking photographs in the most abandoned, polluted, neglected neighborhoods in Buffalo.  I don't find these places depressing because what I am seeing is Nature fighting her way back up from the toxic soil. I am dreaming of forests taking back these sites if we can just allow the process.

Trees Growing Right Up From the Basement

These trees growing through the grate are at the abandoned Catholic Campus on Dodge St. in Buffalo.

Hidden Dump Near Tifft Farm

Close to Lake Erie is this hidden dumping ground. The trees have matured.

Ready For The Holidays!

I'm happy to announce that the first edition of 'Buffalo Snow' sold out last year. It's just been reprinted in time for this winter. I'll be doing more book signings around Western New York and I hope I run into you!  For my out of town friends, it's available on the Barnes and Noble website. (bn.com)

Hope is Alive

What a thrill to see the joy around the world over Obama's victory. We're headed into change!

Cold winds blowing in

The Tifft Nature Preserve on Lake Erie was once a dairy farm. It then became the Buffalo city dump. Only later was it converted into a nature preserve. All the layers of history in the land are still there to be seen. It is a great place to hike and feel the changing weather blowing in over the Lake.  It's a place I always get ideas for environmental drawings.