My work in the gallery.

Many of us chose to have installations in the gallery.

This was what you saw when first entering the gallery space.

I discovered a National Park Service volunteer was keeping a birder list. 

Can't say I saw all of the birds mentioned - or that I would know all of them, but I did

see quite an assortment.  I spotted a barn owl just last week.

Details, continued.

Almost everything was collected on the Island.  I became aware of how much

I had at home - meaning I've been collecting for a long time.

I found an amazing selection of leaves and feathers. 

Insects.  Leaves. Mushrooms.  Photos with 'stuff'.

The items in the box are water chestnut seed pods. Otherwise known as caltrops. Very sharp.  Very strange.  Wonderful.

They flow down the Hudson and wash up on the shores of Governors Island.

Details, more details.

Inkjets - 11" x 17"

Printed on Inkjet Vellum, attached to glassine, hanging in 

front of a west-facing window.

Detail of above.  Cicadas.

A preview of my studio installation.

Detail images will follow.  I'm tired.  Today i packed up my studio and brought everything (well, almost everything) home.  Would not have been able to do it all so efficiently without the invaluable help of Pinkney and Janice Herbert.  You're the best.

Most framed images are 11" x 17" with 1 @ 11" x 14" and 2 @ 8.5" x 11".

I collected most of these objets on Governors Island.  The horseshoe crab was "imported'

from Long Island, along with a few of the crab parts.

The gang

I cannot claim to be the photographer of this wonderful image.  Thanks to Brad Farwell - the handsome dude 

on his knees for being the man with the camera.

And, in case you don't know what I look like - I'm the one in the front row holding the sign.  

There's a story behind that sign.

One of my last laps around the island.

THE hot chicks of the island.

These are the REAL hot chicks on the island.  They're leaving soon. 

Don't think they winter over in Florida.

Valerie Halier hard at work- final open studio this Friday.