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Deeper Listening | Apr 2026
In recent months, I’ve been spending more time walking through Ithaca. Most days, I leave from North Plain Street, cross Buffalo Street, pass the Children’s Garden, and follow the inlet trail toward Treman Marina and Cayuga Lake before circling back home.
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Boundary
First shown as a two-channel, three monitor video piece on three large boxed blonde Oak black-and-white Setchell-Carlson monitors set on the stage floor. I was inspired by The Vasulkas Machine Vision series (1975-1977) to work in video that way.
Deeper Listening | Jun 2022
This video requires deeper listening. Soothing, melodic, projecting fairness to the generally unseen.
Neil’s Mellow Pad
Neil's Mellow Pad aligns with the intention of Earthstage: to attend to the living world as active presence—complex, fragile, and ongoing. These fragments are not arguments. They are acts of attention.
Frack Mix 🎲
Regulation Is Lax for Water From Gas Wells
The relatively new drilling method — known as high-volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking…
Affirming Gasland
Immediately upon the film's release, Energy In Depth issued a paper claiming to "debunk"…
Art of the common-place: the agrarian essays of Wendell Berry
For most of the history of this country our motto, implied or spoken, has…
Cornell University Law School – 2011 Energy Conference
The conference will use natural gas drilling as a lens to explore energy policy,…
Clifford Krauss: propagandist par excellence
I especially enjoyed his reporting on how some environmentalists are for gas drilling despite…






















































































