The Clerk Manifesto

  When I first started adding photography to clerkmanifesto, a curious road that currently seems to be leading me more and more into drawing...

  I was sitting here writing a very difficult post for you, trying to come to turns with the surfeit of security in France. I wondered why s...

With a bit of injury in my household that I won't go into right now, though everyone is currently doing well,  I have been continuing my...

  If we are in our apartment and doing something calm and quiet enough, we hear the deep, percussive thud of the cannon at noon. In my city ...

  Here are a few unfinished notes from the last few days posts involving Menton, Japan, and my hat. And what these notes really come down to...

  In Kyoto there was an area of museums we ended up going to a lot. The neighborhood was marked by a gigantic Torii Gate, those famous red g...

  Here is a picture from Menton's citrus festival: I have real pictures too. And maybe I'll even show them to you.  They're... f...

  On an impossibly sunny day with temperatures in the mid sixties, we are off on our backyard train to see the citrus festival in Menton whe...

It is mimosa season here.  Out in the countryside of the coast here there are areas full of these blooming yellow flowers right at this time...

  It's not that old. The "old city" of my city, where most days we seem to wander aimlessly into, is only about 2,500 years ol...

  I am increasingly willing to call these drawings, or how about sketches? They combine photography, ai, and drawing. I'm still working ...

Quintessence Moon of The Metamorphosis Academy,   roughly located   somewhere near the Dakotas, wrote in to ask: "Are things cheaper in...

  As I feverishly work into the night on a handful of overly complicated pictures of the third largest Carnaval IN THE KNOWN UNIVERSE, it oc...

  I associate Carnaval with Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and so I associate it there with a very dear friend Matthew who... died.  And is dead...

  Here is the long awaited story of how we went to Grasse, France, perfume capital of the world, and made our own signature scents! What...