Ever Ride Your Bike in an Oven?

Late into the night we drove out into the desert,
we slept near the car and woke as the sky got brighter
no sooner than the sun crested the distant bare peaks than the air began to warm, quickly
hotter and hotter

riding a ridge above masada
distant bedouin camps
roadside camels and donkeys

baren beauty

long dry hot day of looking for rest
solo crater dusk ride
colors shifting, shawdows stretching
slept hard in a bedouin camp
mosquito swatting

early morning moving
riding into the oven...
the sun rose as did the temperature
sparse refuge amongst the blinding moonscape

WOOOD

Tool Shelf
made from old concrete form work boards found lying in the yard

If a Mango and a Tangerine,

You know...

did It

This is what their love child would be

lowquat, shessek, escadenia
english?, hebrew, arabic

HAMSEEN

Desert sneezing, wheezing, breathing
Infiltrating, hard, blanket
Dynamismily coating, glowing

tomorrow it's gone

Boegoose

this amazingly cute puppy followed benji home.
She stayed two weeks, then left.
Her name was bogus, and we loved her.

Abu Fahkri's Lab

so, been in an anti internet vortex for awhile.

I've been living outside jerusalem, in the house of Abu Fahkri, a stone craftsman and artist who shaped the capitals of columns of the old city of jerusalem for more than 30 years. we are staying there and rehablilitating the place with the help of Abu Fahkri's amazing son.

The place is situated in "no mans land," the military zone that seperates israel from the west bank, in this case bethlehem. This zoning title prevents both palestine and israel from developing the land, consequently the nature is able to thrive. the valley we ovelook is filled with ancient agriculture modes (terraces) and the occompanying buildings (now ruins) of the people who used to maintain this land.

The Lab consists of a few terraces, a plethora of fruit trees, a garden we dug and planted for summer eats, a stone house, a glass veranda, and a painting studio in the works. In addition to regular living ammenities like kitchen, bedrooms, and living room (to be the Abu Fahkri Museum) it is a perfect canvas for experiments in sustainable and artful living. Already, we have the garden being fed off rainwater, and there are designs for future greywater systems and composting toilets...

apply for your fall residency now...

from the driveway



from the roof




quarry in the valley