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Jakes Gate Sculptural Images WIP

Jakes Gate, 1 redwood board at a time Blood Meridian left me with images roiling.  Jakes Gate, the old door to the outhouse, commends itself for their random carving. Jakes Gate, top left carving in redwood 3″ x 12″ plank Most often you need 2″ thick boards (or thicker) to carve into redwood.  And you need redwood if you’re going to leave the carving outside (weather, termites, no-name bugs).…

If you haven’t been hit by computer virus recently, please know that some new ones are making the rounds now. Apparently they gain entry to your system by posing as messages or software updates from Adobe and/or Apple.

The effect is to shut down your internet access and slow everything down. Some include Ransom provision i.e. if you want to see your digital information again (including picture…

Photo of MoMA’s Giclee print DeKooning’s 2D (flat flat flat – but not really) painting named Woman I (52nd version on its original canvas). Alongside is my 3D sculpture WIP, at about the same scale as the original painting, color matching to those in MoMA’s Giclee print. xxx

Woman I print and sculpture WIP

xxx 3/4 view of the sculpture. xxxx

Woman I 3D Three-quarter view (WIP)

xxx Back view (first…

Christo-Wrapped — Marin General Hospital 2016

Marin County sculpture done neatly in two views. Honestly, it was not the real Christo who did this — it’s actually native genius in anonymous architecture.

Christo was here — Marin General Hospital

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Very neatly tucked-in — Marin General Hospital

Face-blind sculpture was the beginning, not the end. And that’s the truth.

Silhouette of natural stone formations climbing mountain slope recalls Barrier Canyon Style of ancient pictographs.

Natural stone formation (viewed from Colorado River bank) reflects 5500 year old Barrier Canyon style of stone pictographs in US Southwest. Henry Mountains often snow-capped in August.[

The Holy Ghost Group (photo in blog header above) is the seminal work work of the Barrier Canyon…

Guardian ~ Sego Pictographs in the Barrier Canyon Style

The Sego Canyon rock paintings are new, perhaps painted only seven hundred years ago.

I’ve photographed them several times in morning and evening light.   This image is my favorite:

Guardian: Sego Canyon, photo by Peter Neibert

Under a clear Utah sky the noontime sun is so strong it washes out all the color ~  sometimes you can’t see anything in the stone at all.

Other times I get enough of the…

What Does a Music Album Cover cover?

Album covers seek to convey the mystery and ambience of the music.  Here, the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge in fog reflect Karen Gottlieb’s harp performance — music of San Francisco Bay Area c.omposers

Bay Area Harp Music by Karen Gottlieb, original photo by Peter Neibert

                Listen to sample on SoundCloud:  https://soundcloud.com/innovadotmu/15-track-15-5

Harp music album is here:…

Composition with photographic print, Sego Canyon stone panel, etc.

Night Stone, Guardian, work in progress , Peter Neibert,

Survivor ~ wood sculpture WIP

The Survivor was inspired by a character I saw one morning on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California.

“Survivor” & heads/faces, WIP 2014; wood sculpture, fir, 2014, by Peter Neibert

I don’t remember his face, so I am carving five interchangeable masks to fit on the torso.

His arms will hold four masks as he tries on each to choose the right one to get through the morning.

  I began thinking…