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Trace Meek
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Artist, musician, photographer, and designer based in Western Massachusetts
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Went to an amazing concert: Ezra Furman at the Sinclair in Cambridge, Mass. Left feeling hopeful and connected, despite the precariousness of our times.
Five-person band fronted by singer, songwriter, and guitar player Ezra Furman, delivering a concert to an attentive audience at a packed nightclub.
October 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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This is my current favorite guitar signal path, for what it’s worth. (From top right to bottom left. Not shown: noise gate at the beginning.) I’m mostly all “in the box” these days, on account of I love the sound of <<< STEREO GUITAR >>> and infinite diversity of sound.
A screenshot of Trace’s guitar effects chain, working in Logic Pro. Noise gate, compressor, Fine Classics Pedalboard, EQ, UAD Brigade Chorus, Chromaverb.
October 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Waterway
Kayaking on the Connecticut River under a cloudy sky. Saw a couple of bald eagles and a blue heron.
October 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Foggy notion
Pond with island, trees on far shore, sunrise, fog. Pond with island, trees on far shore, sunrise, fog, detail of silhouetted island. Pond with island, trees on far shore, sunrise, fog, foreground beach. Pond with island, trees on far shore, sunrise, fog, tree and beach in foreground.
October 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Trees in a row, a favorite thing
Four old trees (one of which is no longer living) thoughtfully planted in a line by people of an earlier generation for the benefit of people they would never know. Ashfield, Massachusetts.
October 14, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Morning path
A temporarily cleared path in an autumn wood. Soon there will be more sticks and leaves. For now, there is a clear path for jogging and contemplative walking
October 6, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Squared up
Rebecca, back-lit, standing in front of the Ashfield Town Hall in Ashfield, Massachusetts, where we went to a most fun square dance.
October 6, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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An inadvertent visual collaboration between my camera and the computer screen I was projecting it to.
September 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Scenes from Boston
The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, as seen from Beverly Street in Boston, Mass. Late afternoon. The Custom House Tower (built 1837–1847) seen in the distance, from Beverly Street in Boston. Rebecca enjoying a slice of pizza at Regina Pizzeria in Boston’s North End. Photo of me by Rebecca, while touring Massachusetts Clean Energy Center’s Wind Technology Testing Center, in Charlestown, Mass.
September 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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A friend and I went out on an evening kayaking expedition on the Connecticut River, to see the moon rise over the water. We got a bonus shooting star out of the adventure. He saw it in real-time. I discovered it later, while editing my photos.
Kayaker on river at night with lights on the far shore, a shooting star, a rising moon, and the east end of the Holyoke range in the distance.
September 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Life drawing at the Guilded Brick
Holyoke, Massachusetts
30-minute drawing, charcoal and pastel 15-second poses, charcoal 15-minute pose, charcoal 15-minute pose, charcoal and pastel
September 3, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Halibut Point
Rockport, Massachusetts
Labor Day, 2025
September 3, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Clouds, twilight
Clouds, twilight.
August 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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As summer softly sets
Abstract composition of sky, clouds, and sun. View from a pond: sky, clouds, sun, and trees, reflected in water. Clouds, sky, and part of an old mill building, late afternoon. Abstract composition of sky, clouds, and vapour trail.
August 24, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Homegrown
Up-close photo of some backyard blueberries growing on a bush. One of the berries is just about ripe. The others are still green, but not for long.
July 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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I made another painting.
“Looking Up”
Acrylic on canvas
30 by 30 inches
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I’ll be showing this in February 2026 at the ECA Gallery in Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Square painting representing a view of a star-strewn night sky, looking up through a stand of trees. Square painting representing a view of a star-strewn night sky, looking up through a stand of trees. Hung on the side of a milk barn, to show scale. (And to photograph the painting in even light.)
July 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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What better day than a breezy, fall-like first day of summer to introduce a painting that I just finished yesterday. Set in autumn, it is an ode to our connectedness (by way of one attribute that we all share—our mortality). I am calling it “Ghost Trees.”
Painting of a peak-autumn scene: a pathway through a cemetery, littered with the fallen, golden leaves of autumn. A portal into autumn. Photograph of a series of barn structures. One of them has a painting hung on its side. The painting is of an autumn scene set in a cemetery.
June 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Photograph of two hands, one from each of two humans sitting across a yellow table from each other on a date night. One hand operates a set of chopsticks, and gently grasps a finger of the other person, who is wearing a buttery yellow nail color that matches the color of the table and the chopsticks. 💛💛
June 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Scenes from a recent vacation to Savannah and Tybee Island, Georgia
Path through Bonaventure Cemetery, flanked by trees draped in Spanish moss Sunset at Tybee Island beach, with Rebecca in the frame, clouds, and reflections in wet sand Moss-draped trees and old homes in Savannah, Georgia Sunset at Tybee Island, Georgia, with sun behind the clouds producing subtle warm tones
June 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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I won’t be there (schedule conflict), but one of my paintings will.
Poster advertising the Holyoke Arts League’s annual Wistariahurst exhibition. The reception takes place Monday, June 2, 2025, from 5–7 PM, at 238 Cabot Street, Holyoke, MA 01040.
May 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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River fog
Evening photo of the Connecticut River and the rail trail bridge enveloped in a light low fog Evening photo of the Connecticut River enveloped in a light low fog Evening photo of the Connecticut River and the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Bridge enveloped in a light low fog View across the iron girdered rail trail bridge that spans the Connecticut River between Northampton and Hadley, Massachusetts
May 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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On this day in 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts, poet and visionary human being Emily Dickinson was
C A L L E D B A C K
Photo of Emily Dickinson’s gravestone. Inscription on the stone reads: EMILY DICKINSON / BORN / DEC. 10, 1830 / CALLED BACK / MAY 15, 1886
May 15, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This weekend I took a monoprint workshop at Amanda Barrow’s studio in Easthampton, Massachusetts. I enjoyed learning a new-to-me image-transfer process, and I’m fairly pleased with the results!
A monoprint On paper featuring a distorted photograph of the Eiffel Tower (Paris, France) printed in black atop an orange-to-yellow gradient. A monoprint On paper featuring a distorted photograph of the Ludlow Clock Tower (Ludlow, Massachusetts) printed in black atop an orange-to-yellow gradient. Artist Amanda Barrow in her studio demonstrating an image-transfer technique using a gel plate, a laser print of a photographic reference, and acrylic paints and mediums. A common area on the second floor of the Eastworks building in Easthampton, Massachusetts. Three large windows made up of multiple smaller frosted panes for soft, diffuse light. An old, characterful hardwood floor. An elevator. A hot water heater.
April 28, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The band Spouse rocked the Iron Horse. Northampton, Massachusetts, April 20.
The band Spouse plays music at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts. José Ayerve of the band Spouse. The band Spouse plays music at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts. View from the rafters. The band Spouse plays music at the Iron Horse Music Hall in Northampton, Massachusetts. View from the side of the stage.
April 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Modern architecture
Chicago O’Hare
A walkway connecting terminals at Chicago O’Hare airport, where we were laid over while returning from Kansas City to visit my dad on his 80th. Walls and ceiling paneled with colored lights and mirrors create an interesting ambience and perception of interior space.
April 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM