Selfie of the Day
A marvelous post I read yesterday by the amazing Joseph P. Kanski at his blog Implied Spaces—illustrated with his simply spectacular images, each of them in its unique way a self-portrait—mused on the...
View ArticleSunniest Side Up
It’s said that if life hands you lemons, you should make lemonade. That’s a charmingly cheery, sunshiny idea, and one that seems plenty valuable to me, if perhaps occasionally a bit difficult to...
View ArticleScarlet & Emerald
A world of contrasts lies between the powerful opposites among all the colors we can see. In the space between those beautiful extremes, between the flame of orange and the deep sea of indigo, between...
View ArticleI Zig, Life Zags
We rarely go the same direction, Reality and I. And when the day is long and complicated and my brain can’t quite keep up with it, I wander ever further from the appointed path of sanity and logic. It...
View ArticleLet’s Talk about Art!
My new friend Alyssa asked if she could get some thoughts from me on my approach to art and my life as an artist. I’ve posted about much of this before here (search practically any name, term, or...
View ArticleCalling All [Music] Composers!
To all the teachers and grownups who ever complained that I always had my head in the clouds: [insert vigorous *RASPBERRY* here]!I said I would do it long, long ago, so ready or not, here goes: a...
View ArticleLet’s Talk about Truth in Advertising
As she so often does, my amazing friend Celi brought up once again the question of what we photograph, and how, and why, and what it can mean when we do so. As an avid, inveterate and truly—in the old...
View ArticleSlow and Steady Gets Books Written
It seems to take me forever, but generally speaking, I do eventually work to finish up my plans. Some of them I even manage to accomplish in reality, not merely simmer internally until they’re fully...
View ArticleOne of the Other Handy Things about Slowness
The gradual approach to the making of my art-and-poetry books means that, while the process itself is invisible to the naked eye and makes it look pretty much like I’m sitting around twiddling my...
View ArticleThe Best (and Most Legal) Kind of Exhibitionism!
My first solo art exhibition in a decade was intimidating—but mighty rewarding! Continue reading →
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