18x18" Inkjet Print Project
MAKOM, "the Place"
MAKOM is a spiritual concept that speaks of spaces and places
that are pervaded by a sacred or divine Presence.
Visit either or both links below for a more complete
explanation with some historical context.
The Photographs
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MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #51
The Hudson River, Early Morning, looking South from Storm King Mountain
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #223
Sunrise over Breakneck Mountain & the Hudson River, viewed from Storm King Mountain
MAKOM "Place" 18x18" Image (on 20x24"base) #20
(Falling leaves along the edge of the River)
from the Milwaukee River project: River Songs (homage to English Pastoral Music)
(Broad Brook, Vermont, Stones Underwater, leaves floating above on the water)
Click Here to see all of my Broad Brook Projects
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #55
Broad Brook stones; White & Blue with Shadows
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #82
Two Blue Stones, a pool of water on rubber roofing material, green plants,
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #22
(Steamy picture window with the rising sun illuminating the N Meadow &
a Still life of tomatoes ripening on the window sill)
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #23
(Telephone Pole, Train Bridge, & railroad tracks underneath)
An image which serves as a remembrance to me of the day my dad died
(See Death, Art & Writing, story #5)
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #40 Dark Wave (visit The Lake Series)
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #57
Phone Booth, Memphis International Airport
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #131
Still life: Sunlit glass of water, peaches tablecloth
MAKOM "Place" Image #18-384 18x18" Image (on 20x24"base)
Sunlit still life with dried plant in ceramic vase and shadows
The light is nearly surreal giving a living presence to everything including the shadows
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MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #138
Still life, basement shower with shower light, shower bottle of soap and other things
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #139
Vine with leaves, screened window, yellow curtain
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Gold door know on a half-door (a "Quirky" photo)
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #212
An illuminated corner in Gloria's basement Ceramic Studio
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image(on 20x24"base) #192
Two doors, sunlight, an open closet with a hanging light pull string
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #162 (March 2025)
Warm sunsetting light on our picture window after an early spring rain (with bird and snow flake)
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MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #196
Two Buckets on tables, and a chair
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #197
Bedroom lamp, bedpost, framed photograph
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #198
Bird, Driveway puddle, early morning fog on Chatham lane
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #203
Misted Picture Window with Bird, snowflake & a plant looking out at the South Meadow
MAKOM "Place" Image #229 18x18" Image (on 20x24"base)
House Plant next to the fireplace
Candle light space with green house plant and blue edge
Closet space with old rack of colored thread spools and metal storage containers
Wall Drawing with back scratcher on an old chest
MAKOM "Place" Image #18-383 18x18" Image (on 20x24"base)
North Meadow Dawn with fog and two houses with lights on in their window.
This image is from the Meadow Project; the whole project is about
Atmosphere, Presence, MAKOM, the Place.
Small mist-covered window & screen, looking north over
the meadow toward some Chatham Lane houses
MAKOM "Place" Image #237 18x18" Image (on 20x24"base)
Rain over the North Meadow & pond, our back deck and the sliding door screen
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #227
Fog & smoke over the South Meadow viewed through a
screened mist covered window with curtain reflections
Makom (and Thing) Image #231 18x18" Image (on 20x24"base)
Glass table and shrouded chair under a basement window
(Thing- Makom ) Image #234 18x18" Image (on 20x24"base)
Bedroom lamp shadow and bedpost
(Makom) Image #230 18x18" Image (on 20x24"base)
Misty morning, four stones and a nail
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #207
A Puddle with Three Flower Petals on our blacktop driveway
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MAKOM "Place" Image (on 20x24"base) #41A
Fence, fence shadow, light, red line, black dot
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #208
Plant shadow on blue wood table
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #60
Tree Shadows in Yellow-Green River
Late evening sunset on the side of a house following a rain storm
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #168
"Covid Specter with tears on our picture window"
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #105
Nocturne, Tree trunk and moonlight reflections in blue evening water)
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The photographs below were made in an old
house which was about to be remodeled
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #114
Bookshelf brackets in an old house about to be remodeled
(This and the next three images are from my project Still Life-Walkabout Part III)
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #115
Basement, Green Walls & coat rack (in the House about to be remodeled)
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #80
Blue Light on an old coat rack (in the basement of the house about to be remodeled)
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #116
Mirror behind a sliding glass door (in the House about to be remodeled)
MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #142
View out of the window above the kitchen sink (in the House that was remodeled)
Most of the images for my Pandemic Inspired projects
fit into the conceptual realm of Makom, "the Place"
including this image, below, which is a "Thing"
Photograph, but of a particular type which
I identify as "A Thing-in-its-Place"
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MAKOM "Place" 18x18 Image (on 20x24"base) #110 Symmetrical Photograph
(Framed Luminous Sacred photograph surrounded by house plants)
Visit my three part 12x12" "Thing" PROJECT
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This project, part of my revised version of the
18x18" Inkjet Print Project,
was published on August 12, 2025
next image #18-384
Here is the list of titles for the newly revised, thematically restructured 18x18" Inkjet Print Project. When a title has been published as a blog page, the hyperlinked title will appear as a deep blue typeface. As the titles indicate, more than one thematic grouping may be published within a single thematic blog title.
Giorgio Morandi
Steve Lacy
Robert Ryman
Mario Giacometti
Mompou
The Complete List of Projects
included in the
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Time & Timelessness February 1, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
The Memory of Light March 4, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
Black and White Photographs April 3, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
Winter's End, Winter's Stones & Plants April 17, 2025 All images in this thematic project were drawn from the Complete Inkjet Print Project 2023-2024-2025
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The Pandemic Inkjet Prints project June, 2023
Twenty-five photographs, printed 16x20"on 20x24"paper
Blue Angels (A Photography Project about Death, Angels & the Blue Pearl (the blog version was revised April 2023) Inkjet prints made in 2023 (image sizes vary from 16x20" to 18x21")
Double-page Illuminations for An Imaginary Book
An Additional Related Blog Project Link
Please visit the Welcome Page to my blog The Departing Landscape. It includes the complete hyperlinked listing of my online photography projects dating from the most recent to those dating back to the 1960's. You will also find on the Welcome Page my several Introductory statements, my resume, contact information . . . and much more.
