Study in greys

The front yard of the Minneapolis Club.

More snowy abstract expressionism

This snow scene with broad strokes of asphalt melting through the white ground, and gestural meanders accenting the inside of the curves, reminds me of Robert Motherwell's Elegy for the Spanish Republic. Not literally, but in its evocation.

I bought this moment. Paid for it.

I contributed a dollar to the flautist's hat. Other hat. The one not in the picture. Music on the skyways is not something you can either escape or take for granted. I had been thinking about that.

Cocooning in Caribou

The new urban environment doesn't extend much beyond the arms of a cafe chair.

Emptyness revealed through the scale of its occupant.

The TCF Tower atrium seems suspended in time, in some process of becoming from its raw vast brick emptyness toward a humanized environment, perhaps with a table or patch of color. In the meantime, this woman sits, and that woman spies her, and I frame the two in the frame of vastness without emotion, downtown.

Bird in the hand moment in the skyways

Live chicken sighting in the NorthStar Center today. If you want to know what it was all about, get out more.

Skyway self commentary on a billboard

Good use of environmental reference in an antifreeze ad in the skyways.

Indoor sports

One of those weird green Twins effigies (Joe Mauer as offspring of the Jolly Green Giant?) outside the Skyway Dental Clinic.

Round thingys with snow hats

Just liked this shot. More winter in the city.

Abstraction of an Abstraction

Cropped photo of an abstract sculpture in the plaza of the Wells Fargo Center. The snow contrives its own commentary on the texture of the piece.

Emptyness.

There are stretches of the skyway that define the word "empty." Quite a few of these, actually.

Hugely empty skyway with unusual signs of life.

I was framing up a shot of the enormously long, empty skyway from the 3rd Ave Garage to the 5th Ave Garage, and this couple walked up past me, obscuring the essential emptyness of the moment with their transient elan.

Composition with flourescent jacket

Tire tracks and worker, Fifth Street and Fifth Ave.

Light Rail takes a holiday

The LRT power was down today. I noticed walking north from the Jerry Haaf garage that there was activity around this stopped train. Looking closer, I was intrigued by the big truck in front of the train. Was it a tender transferring vital material to the engine, or was it going to tow? The pattern of the trucks tires scribbled another Franz Kline-like abstraction in the snow. You won't find these works of art anywhere but in the great skyway gallery.

A person in the skyway

When I exchanged a few words with this gentleman and asked if I could take his picture for the blog, he responded with a positive attitude. It caught me by surprise, a bit, and reminded me that there was something important in the act of recognizing someone. I didn't take his picture. He gave it to me, and with substance.