Checkpoint for entering Israel from Ramallah

Israel and Palestine: Folio #1, May, 2016

Shabbatt at the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem, Friday, May 20, 2016

Shabbatt at the Western Wall Plaza, Jerusalem, Friday, May 20, 2016

Church of the Nativity, Nazareth

Massada, with the Dead Sea in the background

Model of previous civilizations at Massada

Baptism at the Jordan river, with Jordan visible on the other side. However, the river is incredibly polluted and Israel's Ministry of Health has stated that "Christian pilgrims should be banned from entering the river Jordan at the site where Jesus is believed to have been baptised because of dangerous levels of pollutants..." Guardian, July 26, 2010

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Still Life, Jerusalem

Eritrean men at the Church of the Nativity, Nazareth

Jerusalem

Shop interior, Jerusalem

Artist at his opening Tiberias

A group of settlers provocatively walk in the grounds of the Al-Aqsa Mosque followed by compound police and Israeli police. This is part of their larger plan of building the Third Temple on the mosque's ground. Lives has been lost within this struggle, in fact our driver, Moustafa, had been shot three times in an incident that took place in October, 1990, known as Temple Mount Riots, or the Al Aqsa Massacre, in which the Arab community responded to the Temple Mount Faithful's attempts to lay a cornerstone at the site as part of their expressed desire to build the Third Temple on the grounds.

Jerusalem

The Garden Tomb is a rock-cut tomb in Jerusalem which was unearthed in 1867 and has subsequently been considered by some Christians to be the site of the burial and resurrection of Jesus. The Garden Tomb is adjacent to a rocky escarpment which since the mid-nineteenth century has been proposed by some scholars to be Golgotha (it is also known as Skull Jill, Gordon's Calvary, and Conder's Calvary.  [wikipedia]

We come and we go....[for Mike]

Yad Vashem (Holocaust Museum), Jerusalem. This is the view that greets you when you finish walking through the museum. To understand something about Israel a visit to this musuem is indispensable.

Entrance to a church property somewhere near Bethlehem.

Friday market, Tel Aviv

Street Art in Palestine and Israel, May, 2016

Haifa

Banksy in Bethlehem

Jerusalem

Bethlehem

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Aida refugee camp, Bethlehem

"How & Nosm," Beit Sahour, Bethlehem. September, 2013

The Wall, Bethlehem

Aida Refugee camp, Bethlehem

Aida Refugee camp, Bethlehem

Wall works, with Bansky shop on the left where you can buy copies of his works, Bethlehem

Banksy in Bethlehem

Bethlehem

Wall works, Bethlehem

"Wall Street," The Wall, Bethlehem

Untitled, S. Wakime, Tel Aviv

Untitled, S. Wakime, Tel Aviv

Four English Gardenscapes (West Midlands and Herefordshire), 2016

Album #23, Iowa City, 1994. All but three of these 23 albums document the 10 years I spent in San Francisco from 1980-1990 as a new immigrant from England. In 1990 I moved to Iowa city and the series stops in 1994 as I changed over to color photography. Please note the reverse chronology.

Arda with her winter garden in the basement.

Fluxus events at the Fluxus Museum, Coon Ferry, Iowa.

The hardest part of the whole art history phd was satisfying the german translation requirement. It was a 2 semester class and i worked hours each night trying to fix this complicated language into my brain. I did thankfully pass the class.

Carlos Cortez (1923-2005) a beloved Chicago icon and people's artist. In 1998 the Center for the Study of Political Graphics honored Carlos with their "Art as a Hammer," award.

Liaizon Wakest of the Dreamtime, West Lima tribe trying to give away a fake lobster.

Sweat lodge at the Tree House, Dreamtime, West Lima, WI.