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Today is a day that I've been waiting for my whole life. I was delivered the very first, final copy of the #californiafieldatlas. It is everything I could have dreamed and more: the detailed design by @heydaybooks keeps giving and giving. My confidence that this massive offering will sustain its light-making relevance for years to come has my eyes filled with humbled tears of gratitude. I am so proud of my assembled team, and now I count you among them. I'm selling them directly - email me at coyoteandthunder@gmail.com - $65 includes shipping and tax. I will send you a Paypal invoice and ship the book in a couple of weeks when they are in my hands. Better do it now though, the response has been wonderfully furious and I've only got a few dozen to start. Let me know too who to inscribe them to. Come in to my love story for this place and explore wild, beautiful, living #california with me. I've just posted the first, official draft of the #trackingthunderbirds tour - a book tour that will last the fall, celebrating the release of the #californiafieldatlas - check it out at www.coyoteandthunder.com. After an incredible response, Heyday books is no longer able to take preorders and so now I am selling them directly; email me at coyoteandthunder@gmail.com and be sure to tell me who to inscribe them to and I will gladly do so. After you email me, I will send you a Paypal invoice. They are $65, which includes shipping, invoicing and taxes, I will ship them all in approximately three weeks. I've learned from my publisher that presales have been so furious that a second printing is being ordered before the first even hits. I'm so proud of the initial support and I thank you for your roll in it. This fall is going to be crazy in the best kind of way. Only wrathful ghosts who claim that their freedom is to voice hate breeding and that to justice they are beyond reproach, will remain unfed, forever voracious before they at last will feed only on themselves to their own ending. They always return to our common history, these hateful and lazy-minded ghosts, in humanity's winter which is their season. They always whisper that there is not enough, that plenty is an illusion and that exclusion is virtuous. The lies of these spectre'd hearts curtain the practice of gratitude and compassion which have always been the only antidote to the ethical famine of the ignorant and the unjust. It is perhaps easy for some abandoned souls to give into blindness and rage and to let go of the golden circle. To others, in fact to most, to be counted among the welcoming and the open hearted is the only course we could ever recognize as at all sane. #trailpaintings The #coyotewagon is ready again to fly. The dates of the #booktour for the #californiafieldatlas are being announced tomorrow. Alli, Gordy and I will be cruising from San Diego to Portland and all points in between, with a vision of love and hope in our hearts, in support of my book and we can't wait to see you out there this autumn. @heydaybooks I see a pantheon of biodiversity on display and an almost topographic relevance in the well-rendered animal, as if the aesthetic truth in form between the portrait and the map are philosophical equivalents, and whatever the reference might be, meaning resonates in the transmitted beauty. #trailpaintings The grand parade, a tour in honor of the publication and release of the first edition of the #californiafieldatlas, my song of life and love to California, begins in the Bay Area on September 3rd. I'm so proud and grateful to be in the company of such excellent people as @theperishtrust @prooflabstation and @issuesshop. Come out, I want to sign your copy of the book and I thank you for all the support on this massive undertaking. I'll be posting the rest of my confirmed dates in the next few days as I will be spending the fall on tour up and down the West Coast. For more information, email me directly at coyoteandthunder@gmail.com

OBI KAUFMANN

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2016 Coastal Nat’l Monument Additions
CALIFORNIA; A Field Atlas

2016 Coastal Nat’l Monument Additions

What follows are the drafts I’ve been working on for the Bureau of Land Management, a series of commemorative, handpainted maps that describe the additions to the California Coastal National Monument, 2016. #fieldatlas #trailpaintings

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Today is a day that I've been waiting for my whole life. I was delivered the very first, final copy of the #californiafieldatlas. It is everything I could have dreamed and more: the detailed design by @heydaybooks keeps giving and giving. My confidence that this massive offering will sustain its light-making relevance for years to come has my eyes filled with humbled tears of gratitude. I am so proud of my assembled team, and now I count you among them. I'm selling them directly - email me at coyoteandthunder@gmail.com - $65 includes shipping and tax. I will send you a Paypal invoice and ship the book in a couple of weeks when they are in my hands. Better do it now though, the response has been wonderfully furious and I've only got a few dozen to start. Let me know too who to inscribe them to. Come in to my love story for this place and explore wild, beautiful, living #california with me. I've just posted the first, official draft of the #trackingthunderbirds tour - a book tour that will last the fall, celebrating the release of the #californiafieldatlas - check it out at www.coyoteandthunder.com. After an incredible response, Heyday books is no longer able to take preorders and so now I am selling them directly; email me at coyoteandthunder@gmail.com and be sure to tell me who to inscribe them to and I will gladly do so. After you email me, I will send you a Paypal invoice. They are $65, which includes shipping, invoicing and taxes, I will ship them all in approximately three weeks. I've learned from my publisher that presales have been so furious that a second printing is being ordered before the first even hits. I'm so proud of the initial support and I thank you for your roll in it. This fall is going to be crazy in the best kind of way. Only wrathful ghosts who claim that their freedom is to voice hate breeding and that to justice they are beyond reproach, will remain unfed, forever voracious before they at last will feed only on themselves to their own ending. They always return to our common history, these hateful and lazy-minded ghosts, in humanity's winter which is their season. They always whisper that there is not enough, that plenty is an illusion and that exclusion is virtuous. The lies of these spectre'd hearts curtain the practice of gratitude and compassion which have always been the only antidote to the ethical famine of the ignorant and the unjust. It is perhaps easy for some abandoned souls to give into blindness and rage and to let go of the golden circle. To others, in fact to most, to be counted among the welcoming and the open hearted is the only course we could ever recognize as at all sane. #trailpaintings The #coyotewagon is ready again to fly. The dates of the #booktour for the #californiafieldatlas are being announced tomorrow. Alli, Gordy and I will be cruising from San Diego to Portland and all points in between, with a vision of love and hope in our hearts, in support of my book and we can't wait to see you out there this autumn. @heydaybooks I see a pantheon of biodiversity on display and an almost topographic relevance in the well-rendered animal, as if the aesthetic truth in form between the portrait and the map are philosophical equivalents, and whatever the reference might be, meaning resonates in the transmitted beauty. #trailpaintings The grand parade, a tour in honor of the publication and release of the first edition of the #californiafieldatlas, my song of life and love to California, begins in the Bay Area on September 3rd. I'm so proud and grateful to be in the company of such excellent people as @theperishtrust @prooflabstation and @issuesshop. Come out, I want to sign your copy of the book and I thank you for all the support on this massive undertaking. I'll be posting the rest of my confirmed dates in the next few days as I will be spending the fall on tour up and down the West Coast. For more information, email me directly at coyoteandthunder@gmail.com My office is 1200 miles. I make my bed across an acre of silence. I draw living systems by tracing echoes of the living. I see politics of love in every inch of forest. I don't believe the games of human governance are symbolic of any kind of absolute authority. I see the whole of nature, space and time, all existing in circular patterns. I believe in respect before I believe in anything. Photo by @paulnemirahcollins When painting is hunting, the breathing now dilates in an undeniable flower of my senses and my arrest is complete. The past does not reject and the future does not withhold. The water does not flow, but the paper moves under it. What is beautiful drowns me in an aesthetic experience of the invisible air I am finally united with. Simply, mind is not within me but a quality of this secret realm that I move conscious in and from. #trailpaintings The smallest moths whisper into my ringing ears the desert ecstasies of how at night the sun returns to its home and seeds the earth from under, in darkness making all life happen. Out here, the pollinators bounce from plant song to plant song with nothing but the silent stars to cheer them on with only an empty code to carry out the work; work to be inspected at dawn by that shining face. #trailpaintings We sing or songs in circles to lace the time and the space to the story of what is happening, which has always been happening. Fools in their lost and furious panic witlessly announcing disaffectation with the natural world may hold our attention for a blink but quickly fade. The tiny lion in the sun by the river gets it: ecology is not actually a game of domination at all. Put no faith in the warrior unless they can dance. #trailpaintings I've been captivated by heavy music my whole life. @kngwmn #kingwoman is the best #oakland #metal performing right now. Singer Kristina Esfandiari moves a ghost through her songs, backed up by Joey, Pete and Colin, to knock down brittle, glass castles and to set fire to all my dead gardens. Last Saturday I was photographed at their first headlining night at #greatamericanmusichall #sanfrancisco by @matthewkadi for the legendary @theowlmag. So many dreams coming true. @relapserecords #hierophant I just posted the history and portfolio of my collaboration with @indigoferajeans at www.coyoteandthunder.com. #californiahikingseries I'll be publishing the updated and potentially final draft of my epic book tour for the #californiafieldatlas later this week. To stay informed, please subscribe to my blog at www.coyoteandthunder.com. I'll be featuring a different stop everyday here on Instagram, no doubt in addition to my continued, daily reveries. I'm asking you now to save the dates for my mini-tour with my friends @ironandresin: Thursday September 21st at #ironandresin #sanfrancisco, Friday September 22nd at the Iron and Resin Garage in #Ventura and then Saturday September 23 at the new Iron and Resin in #venicebeach. As you might glean from this image, each stop will be full of unique surprises, gifts and boat loads of new #trailpaintings. The California heart of a.earth, b.air, c.fire and d.water. A) a table of granite anchors a sliding array of serpentine and sandstone cuts and cracks a landscape dreaming of ancient volcanoes. B) a climate of lightning dictating the health of forests across the arid rainshadow behind the perfumed wind informing wine as the tule fog breathes. C) the language of our wild land in burning carbon stores involving regimes of every landscape, dependent and adapted to the wanting scorch and the waiting flowers. D) the agency of all life in running capillaries diverted from the snow-held peaks to serve every thirsty corner. The ebb and the flow of drought of this most precious of all resources determines the patchwork quality of every long vista. Having bathed in fire, we watch our skin cool to rainbow glass. Our fragile bones, now keen to merge with the intelligence of trees, remember the older songs that name all places. In the greater democratizing of the natural world, no hierarchies exist; spiders crush mountains, and hungry, ancient rivers are careful around tiny bird nests. All systems of classification collapse under the scaling eye that seeks the truth of unity; plants speak to one another as aptly as any animal creature, and the structure of the tiniest, microscopic mouth mirrors the maw of the largest megafauna. I am as much sand as I am water, and only wind and a tiny fire keep me moving. #trailpaintings Although I am not a fan of things and stuff generally bores me, I did come up with a list of my favorite gear, apparel and tools from the @outdoorretailer trade show last week. I posted my list today at www.coyoteandthunder.com and realize now it is not just a list of material objects, it is a catalog of quality, even obsession in craft and style. Pictured here, me in my @frostriverphotos pack, photo by #frostriver A giant thank you to everyone @outdoorretailer who bought raffle tickets from @mulecarry for my #liveart #trailpaintings last week to benefit #publiclands. We generated over $1K that we are donating to @protectwildutah @npcapics @tuleyome @wildernesssociety @earthjustice @calwildorg picture by @nicktmonte /// alert @usinterior @mypubliclands @nationalparkservice @conservationalliance I collect landscapes. I file away regular masks of mountain faces and antler trees for my midnight moves and my dawn dances. The symphonic sway at sunset seems to completely uncover bits of my unjaded reflection across a land, forever and indifferently enrapt in its own joy despite my unmoving and hungry gaze. #trailpaintings Today at www.coyoteandthunder.com, my report, "In defense of #publiclands" where I exhibit the six #trailpaintings I made last week @outdoorretailer and detail the conservation efforts they support. @protectbearsears @tuleyome @wildernesssociety @npcapics @calwildorg @usinterior @mypubliclands @protectwildutah From my pine needle throne in happy silent exile, the trail serves me the full meal of music fuel for flying, where with my feathered sword I can trace angels - hello Coyote, your home inside the acorn, mine in the blue night, wrapped around the moon my candle.

Obi Kaufmann Art Archive

In Defense of the Western Wilderness…

  • Conservation Alliance
  • Ventana Wilderness Alliance
  • Condor Trail
  • Yuba River League
  • Los Padres Forest Watch
  • Pacific Crest Trail Assoc.
  • Klamath Siskiyou Wild
  • Yuba Salmon Now
  • Friends of the Inyo
  • Western Rivers
  • Wilderness Land Trust
  • Los Padres Forest Assoc.
  • Friends of the River
  • California Wilderness Project
  • The Wilderness Society

The Storytelling Sponsors…

  • Six Point Brew
  • Outlier Clothing
  • Poler Stuff
  • Workhorse Rye Distillers
  • Revist Products
  • Duckworth Co.
  • Topo Designs
  • Dogfish Head Brew
  • Indigo Fera Jeans
  • Havstad Hat Co.
  • Winston Made
  • 18 Waits
  • Iron & Resin
  • Danner Boots
  • Third Eye Headlamps
  • Orox Leather
  • Freenote Cloth
  • Frost River
  • Ticla
  • Sierra Nevada Brew
  • Juniper Ridge
  • Leatherman
  • Tin Cup Whiskey
  • Union Wine Company
  • Freeman Seattle
  • Brass Arrow
  • Wood and Faulk
  • Osprey Packs
  • Icebreaker
  • Alite Designs
  • Kern and Hyde
  • Bulldogge Books
  • Winter Session
  • Kletterworks
  • Jungmaven
  • Madden Equipment
  • Snow Peak
  • Hydrapak
  • Westerlind Outdoor
  • Oakland Surf Club
  • Otter Wax
  • Tellason
  • Rook Town
  • For holding up the trousers
  • Ft Lonesome
  • Oli Rose Collection
  • Peg and Awl
  • The Coast and You
  • Gnome Life Records
  • Bridge and Burn
  • Crawford Denim

The Storytelling Retailers…

  • Pilgrim Surf, New York
  • Spartan, Texas
  • Stag Provisions, Texas
  • Art In The Age, Philadelphia
  • Kitkitdizzi, California
  • Beam & Anchor, Oregon
  • Love Adorned, New York
  • Cameron Marks, California
  • Una Mae’s, Chicago
  • Marion and Rose’s Workshop, California
  • Make Smith, California
  • Denimheads, Czech
  • Small Home Studio, New York
  • Rivet, New York
  • Cedar and Hyde, Colorado
  • Blok Hill, New York
  • Deus ex Machina, California
  • Neighbor, California
  • Armitage & McMillan, Colorado
  • Cotter Barber, New York
  • Ball and Buck, Massachusetts
  • Standard & Strange, California
  • Mohawk General Store, California
  • Bespoke, California
  • Individual Medley, California
  • Seaweed and Gravel, California
  • Fellow Barber, New York
  • Union Made, California
  • Asher Goods, Washington
  • Forage Modern Workshop, Minnesota
  • Fleur, Chicago
  • Rail and Anchor, Michigan

The Storytelling Artists…

  • Jered Nelson, Pottery
  • Nathaniel Parsons, Carving
  • Claudio Martonffy, Architecture
  • Peter St. Lawrence, Ceramics
  • Crystal Morey, Sculpture
  • Alison Tharp, New Media
  • Derek Weisberg, Sculpture
  • Steelee Faltis, Illustration
  • Dave Higgins, Illustration
  • Julie Harleman, Proprietor
  • Kate Williams, Director
  • Chris Sewell, Proprietor
  • Chris Adamiak, Maker
  • Greg Hennes, Snake Oil Salesman
  • Mikael Kennedy, Photography
  • Jeff Thrope, Consultant
  • Alana Douvros, Designer/jewelry
  • Marisa Haskell, Designer/Jewelry
  • Josh Chen, Designer/Branding
  • Ali Golden, Designer/Clothing
  • August Varlack, Acupuncturist
  • David Polka, Graphic Design/Art
  • David Lyle, Paintings
  • Ciel Bergman, Paintings
  • Gus Elg, Audio Mastering
  • Rachel Craven, Textiles
  • Lauren Wolf, Designer/Jewelry
  • Eric Bowley, Studio Arts
  • Tom Bonamici, Ecological Arts
  • Merrick Rhodes, Photography
  • Skyler Greene, Producer
  • Nirav Patel, Photographer
  • Patrick Dunaway, Illustration
  • Matthew Decker, Tattoo
  • Kirby Stenger, Photography
  • Rod Hipskind, Art Director
  • Cory Jarman, Road Paintings
  • Drew Heffron, Art Director
  • John Casey, Illustration/Painting
  • Brody Leven, Adventure/Storytelling
  • Gale Straub, Storytelling/Photography
  • Yumiko Sakuma, Journalist
  • Kelly Ishikawa, Photography
  • Eric Kvatek, Photography
  • Frederick A. Bouchardy, Perfumer
  • Nicholas Weinstein, Herbalist
  • Brian Caraway, Paintings
  • Catherine Meng, Poetry
  • Lena & Matt Reynoso, Gallery Owners

The Storytelling Media…

  • MAKERS WORKSHOP
  • RAWRDENIM
  • A CONTINUOUS LEAN
  • MONOCLE
  • GRIST
  • CAMPTREND
  • HUCKBERRY
  • MOHAWK
  • RACKED
  • JACKTHREADS
  • ANCESTRY QUARTERLY
  • SELVEDGE RUN
  • DESERT & DENIM
  • CAPSULE SHOW
  • ECOCOLO JAPAN
  • ITS MY DARLIN’
  • SOLIFLORE NOTES
  • WILDERNESS COLLECTIVE
  • THE ATLAS MAGAZINE
  • REFUELED
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