Kyle Parker Cunningham

Desert Archaic

Desert Soul & Blues

Jeannie Ortiz installs two handwoven art yardages for Art Hop in December of 2021. These magical pieces were on display for the night and then shipped off to collectors around the world.

Desert Archaic

Perception & Leaf Cape

Jeannie Ortiz exhibited her Perception cloak & Leaf Cape for December 2021. Two phenomenal pieces masterfully crafted by this amazing textile artist.

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Dispatch № 12 · Forage Forage Forage Fungi Friends

Heavy clouds dropping rain from full bellies bring forth moss, overgrown berry bushes, decomposing logs and ephemeral springs. Slowly at first and then all at once the mushrooms appear and we head out in search of marvelous fungal fruits hiding in a happy forest.

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Once Creatures Existed

Kyle Parker Cunningham opened a new show at Desert Archaic in October 2021 entitled Once Creatures Existed.

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Dispatch № 11 · Alpine Adventures

A visit to Montana's alpine.

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astrophotography experiment № 1

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Dispatch № 10 · Montana

Mountains covered with moss sprouting mushrooms and mysteries.

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Dispatch № 9 · Flowers Blossoming

Flowers Blossoming Wings sailing grassland oceans Prairie touches sky A world apart. A world below. A world in between. We find clouds and outcroppings to sooth our souls and save our minds. This place out here on the edge of the prairie where the sky reaches down from it’s

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Dispatch № 8 · On the edge of the prairie.

Summer rolls in with thunderstoms, the smell of warm wet sage, pine and grasses fills our hearts. This feeling we've been longing for is here, surrounding us in its fleeting love. The endless forms of summer un-folding, emerging, bursting, flinging themselves into being. We are settling into the

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Dispatch № 7 · departures/beginnings

Hello, This morning we departed, finally. On the road after months of planning and weeks of packing and preparations.  The garden is ready to brave a summer on it's own.  The birds are eyeing our fruit trees with glee knowing we won't be there to compete

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Chrysalis

Chrysalis by Jeannie Ortiz and Kyle Parker CunninghamSilk on the rocks.

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Dispatch № 6 · Riparian Canyon Stone

Feet Echoing Hands Riparian Canyon Stone Leaves Growing Green Buds

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Dispatch № 5 · The Gila

Our home is perched at the edge of the great Gila Wilderness in the upper reaches of the Chihuahuan Desert.  A maze of dry mesas, rocky peaks and lush river valleys. Endless and expansive. A 500ish mile hike along the Grand Enchantment Trail [http://www.simblissity.net/get/] brought us

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Whale + Alligator Juniper

This whale has a friend whom it is tugging over the ocean to a place this aligator juniper can be prosper.

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Dispatch № 4 · The Geology of Time

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I do believe that there is something in greeting the raw geology of earth on a daily basis.  It feels to me that it must change a person’s psyche if every day you are able to observe millions of years worth of layers. It creates a certain scale

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Polar Bear + Cork

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.” > Aldo Leopoldo

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Polar Life Raft

Binary detritus of a bygone era.

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This Spring Palette

New work up on the wall in my studio - continuing on with this series about climate and change and the worlds response to it.  I'm still lost in the fantasy world, imagining nature as a cargo cult for human technology.  The transfusion of gizmos is fully realized

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Whale + Sequoia

In progress. This spring I have made a small little world of sea creatures carrying off flora to some distant and most likely extrememly magical secret middle of the ocean type spot. Here a whale is pulling a Giant Sequoia.

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Dispatch № 3: New Tribe Textiles + Desert Archaic = Intentionally Confusing

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We (Jeannie & Kyle) will have been together in this life for 15 years, almost to the day of your reading this email.  Most likely the exact date was April 3rd 2006, but that date is not 100% for sure, rather, it's a guess Kyle put together

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Absconding Octopus

Absconding Octopus, Oil on Linen, 16x20, 2021Somewhere out there in the ocean an octopus saves a little tree pulling it miles over the ocean to secret sea creature the island hiding spots.  The tree was carefully transplanted onto a raft like floaty bit, the upmost care was given to preserve

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No. 2: Beginning Continuations

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are in constant movement and exploration.  The wild is from where we get inspiration and also feel at home, ready to live and be.  10 years ago this year we built a wooden teardrop trailer and lived in it for a year, making art and enjoying the wilds.

Cairns

Indeed I am on the right path. Always great to find these when scrambling around boulders and pokey cactus wondering if we are actually getting any closer to the base of a cliff or just going around in desert circles.  The mountains are getting crowded with cairns by people throwing

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No. 2: Sometimes You Fail To Move Forward

The exciting part of stepping into unknown territory is the process of discovering and learning.  How boring life would be if we had already seen everything.   If we already knew the myriad ways a flower can bloom or a fern can unfurl.   If we had already heard all the ways