Civitella Ranieri afforded me the marvellous opportunity to create in quiet with tools I needed and with wonderful fellowship.Among things I accomplished were a score for the `Wheat” film of Giuseppe Caccavale: the work for solo flute, my own improv, and live...
To be a Fellow at Civitella Ranieri is to be reminded that while the forces of creativity can be difficult to court, there are rare environments where receptivity to these forces widens and where one is afforded the inner latitude to recognize and invite them in. I am...
Novel excerpt: Winter is the city is a big, irritable man walking down the street at twilight with gray trash blowing around him. He is constricted against the cold, and even though he is walking energetically, he is secretly turned inward. Deep in his chest, behind...
Civitella gave me the time and space to be more productive than I’ve been in years. I wrote two long poems that would have taken at least 6 months to create if I’d been at home. My fellow artists were–to a person!–supportive, fascinating, and...
(1964-2009) For the past 2 years I’ve been photographing the sets and behind the scenes of adult films shot in suburban homes in Los Angles where I grew up. I’ve also been mining these films for still images that inadvertently reveal the gestures, rituals and scenes...
