I wasn’t sure about it at first, but things had lead me here, I can watch it stretch back to a dot on the horizon where it burst again and unfolds into that memory that had been created.  My hands where moist as each story, each piece of me was placed on this ancient wall, on a cobble stone street in Casco Viejo Bilbao.

I had worked in a kitchen here, learning how to finely chop chives so that the knife doesn’t make a sound, learning to paint plates with thin lines of balsamic vinegar reduction, what “venge” and “vale” and “vamos” means and the combinations there of.  How to pour cidra from above my head on the the rim of a thin glass oxidizing it and giving it the zing it needs before passing it around to a group of friends.

As life goes you are born with out fear and accepting and trusting of all that comes your way.  I arrived in Bilbao as such with my arms open and was received into a home, where I learned those things that are taught through demonstration.  I built relationships, and worked as I said, filtering through and finding what it is that I want and need.  I showed some of my photos to my friends here as I have before, we talked about what I could do with them, what I could do to make some money while I was here.  Through there encouragement and support, I printed 18 8″ x 10″ and 20 3″ x 5″ photos.  Together we matted them on paper and took them to the street to sell, I don’t live in a place long enough to have a show in a gallery in a building, or to have a job to work as a photographer with a studio, this matched my life and for that made me anxious.  But as we started putting up the photos people started to gather.

Bilbao Basque Country, August 2011

Leon Spain September 2011

Salamanca Spain

Caceres Spain

The Gugenheim Bilbao November 2011

Barcelona Spain, December 2011

Berlin Germany, January 2012

Monchengladbach Germany, February 2012

Weimar Deutschland, UNESCO SITE (where Bach used to live)

England tour with The Photographic Angle.

Vienna Austria May 2012

Zagreb Croatia June 2012

Jack Kerouac Alley Way, San Francisco California, September 2012

(Music by Muralismo, Chris Jefferies,)

Riohacha La Guahira Colombia, Barrio Rancheria

Febraury 2013

Riohacha La Guajira, Colombia

February 2013

Front Page of Riohacha Newspaper

Bogota Colombia

February 2013