National Train Day - May 11th

Come celebrate National Train Day in San Luis Obispo. I will be exhibiting large format prints from "Through the Window of a Train" in the SLO Freight House.

Press Release at Central Coast RR Festival

Music, art, history and fun for the whole family....

ALL ABOARD!!!

Criss Cross

PROJECT INFORMATION:

I teach art in Los Angeles and have been living in San Luis Obispo since July. Once a week I commute each way by train on the Amtrak Surfliner.  This project is an attempt to capture and document my journey with photographs, mental wanderings and train trivia.  

I enjoy the 'snap-shot' like quality that happens as when I use my point and shoot Cannon camera (the reflections and blurring of the foreground, etc.).  Taking photos on every ride functions not only as a travel log, but an observation of the changing landscape over a nine month period of time.  This spatial-temporal study is a montage of a year of my life looking out of a train window.


*All images are property of the artist, Stacey Kalkowski. Please respect copyright. If you do use an image, please give the artist credit.

Tom Thumb

It was Peter Cooper, an inventor, philanthropist and manufacturer, that invented the first U.S. steam powered locomotive operated on a common-carrier railroad. The Tom Thumb was built in 1830 for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.