Jeff Kiess

Today, while sitting on a boat with my brother and his family, I saw the Blue Angels in action, and what made it so impressive was the speed and the sound. It's one thing to watch them on a screen…

New on the music page: Air Conditioned Sun Glare

A short ambient piece inspired by moments spent in air-conditioned interiors while outside blazes with tropical sunlight. The feeling of vacation getting underway. Created in 2023.

Twenty Times Around is now live on the site. Find it on the Music page.

The track began as a meditation on elapsed time, looking back twenty years and feeling both the distance and the speed with which it passed…

When we visit Acadia National Park, we stay at Blackwoods—one of the Park’s two managed campgrounds. Located near Otter Point on the southeast end of Mount Desert Island, Blackwoods is Acadia for us, a place we have returned to again…

Acadia National Park - Acadia to me and my family - is one of the most sacred places in our collective mythology. Since 1983, we have been re-invigorated, soul-nourished, and inspired by its rocky glacial mountains, pine and birch forests,…

On Cabot Street in Beverly, Massachusetts, there is a bespoke coffee establishment called Atomic Cafe. For decades, I have esteemed it to be an archetype of cafes. The place occupies a mythic place in my memory as a key fixture…

When the Seventies turned to the Eighties, I was living at what my family calls the House on the Hill in Jenks, a suburb of Tulsa, Oklahoma. At that location, hints at what the 80s would bring had already begun…

This is a painting that I created in 2006 depicting County Street in Ipswich, Massachusetts. It is an interpretation of a photo I took while on one of my many walks around Ipswich’s eastern neighborhood. I painted this image as…