My mom, Kimberley Harding, makes gorgeous woven baskets, mostly out of paper. I photographed some for her website. Check out her Pinterest for more of her baskets, plus some handmade clothing, fiber art, and more!

My mom, Kimberley Harding, makes gorgeous woven baskets, mostly out of paper. I photographed some for her website. Check out her Pinterest for more of her baskets, plus some handmade clothing, fiber art, and more!
I made some baked mac and cheese. Here’s the process, from roux to finished product.
My mom maintains a number of bird feeders, which attract the local wildlife. We get a lot of squirrels, but also a lot of dark-eyed juncos and house sparrows. The juncos are the gray-and-dun ones who look like a half-dipped Easter egg, and the house sparrows are varying shades of brown. On the flashier end…
My newest post on Icons of Arlington is about Menotomy Rocks Park, a park I spent a lot of time in as a kid. I learned a lot about the park’s history, both ancient geologic and recent community history, while I was researching for this one. Content warning for non-graphic discussion of suicide in the…
“Wait,” you say, “Ray, didn’t you already write about the Arlington Reservoir?” Yes, I did. But there are actually two Arlington Reservoirs in Arlington. This is the other one.
Swollen, 2024, 13 x 17” Acrylic, mixed media art waste (including watercolor, spray paint, paper, resin, and lightbulbs) on canvas K.C. MacPhail and Ray Bernoff “Swollen” expresses our experience with pain caused by chronic inflammation, marrying Ray’s waste-based art practice with K.C.’s portraiture to create something swollen and suffocating. The subject is exhausted, resigned to…
Toward the end of my summer at Arlington Public News of ACMi, we held did a remote newscast at the Jefferson Cutter House in Arlington Center. I was not feeling so great, so I had to sit out for most of it, but they did a great job without me!