Outskirts of Things
Looking for a Landscape (2023 - ongoing)
40.717479, -74.003014
large scale pigment prints
Morning Spent (2019)
42°42'50.3"N 2°05'59.7"E
pigment prints, dimensions variable
The images of Morning Spent were created in parallel with the following verse, compiled from contemporaneous notes
a morning spent
treading on the genderless spirits
of angles trapped in the underbrush
all of us destined to return
again and again unless
we beg to differ,
unless we decline the invite
and simply refuse
to come
back
mixing memory and direct perception
same old same old movement into unfathomable detail
along a wayward path scrambling toward the outcrop
of rock and bramble, long early morning light
raking across the embankments, highlighting this and that
while the rest falls into shadow
this is not a metaphor
thinking back, seed pods
must have rattled as I passed
there must have been the hum and buzz
on insects flitting by or busy
buried in the brush
there must have been a faint record
of my own breathing as I passed
but as of here and now
I am not able to recall
any sound
at all
Mapping the Verge (2024 - ongoing)
42°42'50.3"N 2°05'59.7"E
pigment prints, dimensions variable
Mapping the Verge: image titles, top to bottom - all 2025; dimensions variable
01) Sound of an Abstruse Notation
02) All in
03) And a Giddy Whisper
04) Quartet Aa Quartet Ab Quartet Ac Quartet Ad
05) Avoid Disappointment and Future Regret
05) Suddenly Doubled Somehow
07) Another Little Something
08) For You Two Cipher
09) Hermit's Best Guess
10) Fresh Out of Nothing
© 2025 Tim Trompeter
Thistles and Glyphs
reconstruction of a fragmented pastoral
After Memling: A Jug of Flowers (2016)
monoprint: pigment print and oil stick, 30 x 48 inchesUp Needs Down Like Down Needs Up (2017)
Monoprint in two connected sections with an inlaid white gold leaf central line and wooden dowel "hitch" with wrapped embroidery floss. 34 x 52 inches framed
Aquinas (2017)
pigment print dimensions variable
Breath So Often Unfinished (2025)
pigment print 66x40 inches
Yoni (2018)
pigment print 26 x 40 inches
SCROLLS pigment prints, each approximately 15 x 48 inches
Breaking The Swing (2017)
Bather (2018)
There Should Be An Inner Clock (2017)
THISTLES AND GLYPHS reconstruction of a fragmented pastoral
Source Materials
1) randomized Biblical text fragment:
SEEM TO BE NOT HEAR THEREFORE RESTORE THE TOKEN OF THE CHILDREN AND FROM THEE OF THE LAND IN SILVER AND HE SOUGHT THY SEED I HAVE NOTHING TO PASS ON TO OUR FATHER'S HOUSE REPLENISH THE DROVES SAYING ALL FLESH WHEREIN IS STUBBORN AND HE MADE OBEISENCE TO HIS DREAMS AND FOR ME HE GIVETH GOODLY WORDS A DREAM BEHOLD HITHERTO THOU SHALT NOT AND THE HAND THE DOOR AND IT WAS CLOSED A FAIR WOMAN TO THEE BUT IF HE SAID I MAY BLESS THEE IN A POSSESSION OF MOURNING BOUND UP EARLY IN THE LAND WHERE ART MY SOUL AND HE KNELT AT THE GATE OF THE MOUNTAIN
2) random integers generated by atmospheric noise:
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
3) bitmap image fragments of moss, stone, water and flora
4) vector reconstruction of lost information through heuristic image tracing
© 2025 Tim Trompeter
Foreground Notes
Foreground Notes is a long-term research in the apprehension of nature through drawing, photography,
video and digital imaging.
Dans la Nature, l’Écriture
Each drawing sequence traces the linear contours and calligraphic markings of details routinely overlooked.Consecutive drawings record a syntax in the activity of looking and marking.
Linesets: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
The natural world is noisy and chaotic, systematic yet open-ended, patterned, complex and indifferent. There is an oscillation between structure and chaos, between ordering and disordering, between melody and static. The entire process plays out right in front of our noses
Culvert (Winter and Spring) 2008
Cascade 2014
pigment print 17 x 52 inches
Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
Not Your Mother’s Rococo
pigment prints, dimensions variable
Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
Drawingwall Splits 2007
pigment prints, dimensions variable
Rockneedle 2003
Lineset: sumi pen, brush and india ink on paper
Scree Walk 2008
15 sumi pen drawings on paper + video loop
At Rest: Balbonne
sumi pen, brush and ink on paper 8 x 10 inches
© 2025 Tim Trompeter
Dragon Swallows Moon
Mixing information streams and blending worlds - and all is as is.
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Revised and republished in January 2024, this 124 page work of reorientation is a parallel narrative of image and text with uncounted branching meanings. The who, when, and where of the images are not as significant as what an image represents—specific person, chronology and place become secondary to the proximity of one thing to the other.
© 2025 Tim Trompeter
Garden of Recollection
returning again and again
Folio A: (2020)
pigment prints, dimensions variable
Garden of Recollection Folio B (2005 - 2015)
beginnings
pigment prints, dimensions variable
Garden of Recollection Folio C - 32 Drawings (2016)
markings
sumi pen and ink wash on Indian rag paper, each 8.5 x 11 inches
© 2025 Tim Trompeter