A lighthouse proper is much more than an aid to navigation. It is also an embodiment of the sentinel, each a beacon of hope and resilience standing on lonely shores throughout the world. Generations of intrepid mariners have sought their light, sometimes desperately, seeking to know where they were, lest they be wrecked.

In life, we must seek our own beacons, lest we become wrecked ourselves. This is the magic of the lighthouse.

•j

Image area is approximately 22” x 34” on 24” x 36”

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"Well – I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower – and I don't."

• Georgia O'Keeffe

“Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”

•Edward Abbey

Not Dead Horse Point image area is approx 3ft x 8ft

All others approximately 22” x 34”

-on 24” x 36” paper

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Being in Pando is an emotional experience. You never “see” Pando. You are in Pando, you walk through Pando. You can feel the immense size and age of the thing, right down through the rocks and dirt and water to the roots, and a mystery we have long forgotten, a primordial entity of immense power that speaks in a terrifying and beautiful way of the beginning of all things.

If Pando represents anything, it is that everything is connected. That which appears to be individual trees, is in fact a single being. The survival of Pando is representative of our own. To fail Pando and other trees like it is to fail ourselves.

•j

Pando the Trembling Giant resides high in the Fish Lake National Forest, in the state of Utah. An individual male quaking aspen tree clone, Pando is possibly the largest, heaviest, and oldest organism on the planet.

Pando's long term survival is uncertain due to a combination of factors including drought, human development, grazing, and fire suppression. In collaboration with the United States Forest Service, The Western Aspen Alliance is studying the tree, and actively working to protect it.

This collection is curated on behalf of the Western Aspen Alliance. Your print purchase generates a substantial gallery commission that is paid directly to the Western Aspen Alliance and is used to support their research and efforts to protect Pando, and the western aspen ecosystem.

Special thanks to WAA Photographer Lance Oditt who generously shared his philosophy and hard won expertise on photographing the unique entity that is Pando.

Image area is approximately 22” x 34” on 24” x 36”

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Where once the waters of your face
Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows,
The dead turns up its eye;
Where once the mermen through your ice
Pushed up their hair, the dry wind steers
Through salt and root and roe.

Where once your green knots sank their splice
Into the tided cord, there goes
The green unraveller,
His scissors oiled, his knife hung loose
To cut the channels at their source
And lay the wet fruits low.

Invisible, your clocking tides
Break on the lovebeds of the weeds;
The weed of love’s left dry;
There round about your stones the shades
Of children go who, from their voids,
Cry to the dolphined sea.

Dry as a tomb, your coloured lids
Shall not be latched while magic glides
Sage on the earth and sky;
There shall be corals in your beds
There shall be serpents in your tides,
Till all our sea-faiths die.

•Dylan Thomas

Image area is approximately 22” x 34” on 24” x 36”

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My father used to laugh when I would try to catch the lizards. I figured it out though, and it wasn’t as fun as when I couldn’t catch them. I have always been a desert rat. Why is that? I show you the composed glimpse, the civilized print... but I go here because I love feeling my way across slick rock chasms in the dark under the watchful glowing eyes of hungry somethings in the night. I have seen those eyes and loved them. I love knowing there is no water except what I carry, and I love quiet so quiet it is unnerving. Heat, and a land that is utterly indifferent to my presence. If I manage to die here, even my bones will disappear in short order, desiccated and carried away into the maw of nothing and everything, a direct conduit into this land of abiding mystery, this place of magic of which we have but a little knowledge, and even less understanding.

• j

Image area is approximately 22” x 34” on 24” x 36”

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Unique works created in careful collaboration with the subject. A willing wanderer by nature, J will consider enticing projects anywhere in the world. To inquire about J’s current whereabouts and availability, please contact us.

The term “Gasoline Print” was first coined by photographer Per Volquartz, in reference to a selection of prints that funded his travels.

These beautiful Open Edition “Gasoline Prints” help fund projects and provide prints for the collector or patron who may not be in the market for the larger format prints.
Pigment ink on Baryta paper, the Gasoline Prints feature the same COA and letter of provenance as the larger prints.


“I was privileged to know Per for an all too brief time before he passed away. I am pleased to offer my version of the Gasoline Prints in humble homage to the man who so willingly mentored me.

• j

"My first view of the garden was from a hiking trail on a hill above it. I knew instantly that I wanted to visit it. The garden holds a special place in my heart, so much so that I made it the subject of my first collection. Even so, it’s one of the places that I am content to visit without a camera.”

•j

Designed by Professor Takuma Tono of Tokyo Agricultural University, the Portland Japanese Garden opened in 1967, creating a cultural bridge of beauty and serenity for the citizens of Portland and their sister city, Sapporo, Japan.

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A NOVEL BY ALAN O’CONNOR
Writer Alan O’Connor, a New York native, recently collaborated with J to create original images for the cover and related graphics for his insightful new book, Wandering in Oblivion.

Wandering in Oblivion is a son's journey along the dark shores of memory, as he scavenges for meaning to his mother's tormented schizophrenic life. Discovering in the end, that her courage - forged from the relentless illness - might be her greatest gift to him.

To read an excerpt from the book visit O’Connor’s website - Wandering in Oblivion.

Image area is approximately 22” x 34” on 24” x 36”

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J Brunner is proud to announce his first collectable box set of 8x10 prints- Scotland, Through The Rangefinder, a collection of prints from across Scotland, and the thoughts they inspired.

In post production-Available shortly.