THE SANTA FE ART BLOG

AN OCCASIONAL REVIEW OF MUSEUM, GALLERY, INSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER VISUAL ART EXHIBITS IN SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO. WRITTEN BY PETER GUMAER OGDEN, VISUAL ARTIST LIVING IN SANTA FE. OGDEN IS AN UNPAID AMATEUR ART CRITIC. THIS BLOG IS DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THE WORK OF SANTA FE ARTISTS [OGDEN IN PARTICULAR], AND OTHERS.

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

$200 BILLION UNDER GALISTEO BASIN?

I am not a mathematician or an oil industry person. ...but I can do research.
Tecton Oil estimates high grade oil reserves of 100 million barrels and natural gas reserves of 5 to 10 trillion cubic feet in the Galisteo Basin underneath Santa Fe County.
As of this writing spot crude oil is selling for over $100 per barrel and natural gas is selling for approximately $10 per 1000 cubic feet.

Even if my math below is off by a zero or two we are talking about an enormous reservoir of untapped wealth sitting underneath the Galisteo Basin:

1. 100 million barrels x $100/barrel= $10 billion.
2. 10 trillion cubic feet/1000 [price unit is per 1000 cubic feet] =
10 billion cubic feet.
10 billion x $10 [per 1000 cubic feet]=
$10 BILLION.
$10 BILLION [Estimated value of the oil]
+ $10 BILLION [Estimated value of the gas]=

$20,000,000,000.00
aka:
TWENTY BILLION DOLLARS!



Meanwhile we live in one of the poorest states in the U.S. with a large percentage of residents living in third world poverty conditions. Lately we have endured severe funding cutbacks to the disabled and for other vital services. Yet a well organized
group of local elitists, most of whom are first generation New Mexicans based in Santa Fe wants to prevent drilling?
This is the strongest proof yet that insanity and unreality is rampant in Santa Fe.

QUESTIONS: What are the exact dollar figures? How much oil revenue would go to the state of New Mexico's residents and toward an environmental protection bond as a remedy for potential drilling damages?
Preventing the struggling majority of New Mexicans from benefiting from this oil wealth is what one might expect in a totalitarian petro-dictatorship like Nigeria or Russia, NOT from our great North American democracy.

--Peter Ogden
Santa Fe[Abu Dhabi West?]

Monday, February 25, 2008

RED WOLF PACK BY CAROLE LAROCHE


RED WOLF PACK BY CAROLE LAROUCHE, GICLEE ON CANVAS, LTD ED, 40 X 60.
CAROLE LAROUCHE GALLERY
415 CANYON ROAD, SANTA FE, NM, 87501
www.larouche-gallery.com

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST CAPTIVATING AND ORIGINAL WORKS OF CONTEMPORARY SANTA FE ART WE HAVE ENCOUNTERED LATELY.-PGO

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LAGUNA PUEBLO 1875


LAGUNA PUEBLO CIRCA 1875
[LOOKS LIKE 'NEW MEXIPOST']

Saturday, February 23, 2008

PICKUP ARTIST

PROJECT TIBET


PROJECT TIBET

A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOUNDED BY TIBETAN REFUGEES IN THE U.S. AND FRIENDS SYMPATHETIC TO TIBET'S PLIGHT.

403 CANYON ROAD, SANTA FE, NM, 87501

TEL: 505-982-3002 FAX: 505-986-9812

Friday, February 22, 2008

WHEN YOU CONFIRM THE EXISTENCE...



PETER GUMAER OGDEN:

"WHEN YOU CONFIRM THE EXISTENCE OF SOMETHING YOU ARE ALSO IMPLYING ITS OPPOSITE"
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I am 50 years old and live in Santa Fe. I was raised on a farm 65 miles north of NYC where my father's family lived from 1832 until 1996. I have lived in over 11 states, the Virgin Islands, Mexico and Honduras. I have been to more than 15 countries. I graduated High School from the George School, a Quaker academy. I studied business at U Miami, Coral Gables, Spanish at Middlebury College; and I graduated from Bucknell University in 1981 with a BA in art. I spent 5 months in 1978 with Bucknell based in Florence studying Italian Renaissance art. In the 1980's I studied at SVA & FIT in Manhattan. At this time I also comanaged a farm and edited the Middletown Express, an activist historic preservation newsletter in Middletown, NY. I spent most of the 1990's traveling frugally throughout the US by car and in Mexico and Central America. I am a visual artist working with collage, paint, and photography. I live a spartan life at this time. I have not owned a TV in 6 years and rarely watch it. I rarely drive, preferring to save the environment by walking and taking the bus.