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In 1982, at a conference on earth building in Tucson, Arizona, an unusual presentation challenged everything architects thought they knew about rural resources. Instead of focusing on construction ...

I have imagined dying for more than fifty years: Mapping Beauty: I have never pursued, nor have seen a perfect diamond: The objective in mind leads me to an idea: My eyes begin to see what isn’t there ...

If I could imagine Darwinian adventures- -and Darwin’s minds’ eyes- -Then just possibly all of his discovered genetic unions across centuries would meld into what my photographs can be: I would ...