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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 🎲
A Life’s Value May Depend on the Agency, but It’s Rising
To protests from business and praise from unions, environmentalists and consumer groups, one agency…
Controversial gas ‘fracking’ extraction headed to Europe
European energy companies are scrambling to secure licenses to roll out extraction projects this…
Exxon’s Oozing Texas Oil Pits Haunt Residents as XTO Deal Nears – BusinessWeek
This article examines the lawsuit against Exxon filed by Texas rancher Elizabeth Burns.
Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight by Stimulus – The Center for Public Integrity
In the name of job creation and clean energy, the Obama administration has doled…
Firm’s Iraq Deals Greater Than Cheney Has Said
Richard B. Cheney acknowledged that the oil-field supply corporation he headed, Halliburton Co., did…






















































































