Black Coffee
Time for some Sunday morning music and since I was up extra early this morning the idea of something to pick me up seems like a good idea. Something like some black coffee. Not the drink, though I am...
View ArticleÀ La Mer
It was a good trip down to Alexandria yesterday. I was there to deliver the the work for my show, Native Voice, which opens this coming Friday, June 5, at the Principle Gallery there on historic King...
View ArticleBack in the Saddle Again –Actually, the Studio
Sunday morning and I’m back in the studio after a couple days down in the Alexandria/DC area. And even though it was a very enjoyable time and a great opening for the Native Voice show, it is, as...
View ArticleThe Shining
The other day I came across this luminous photo from Finnish photographer Mikko Lagerstedt. Titled Lost World, it shows a sailing ship partially sunk in shallow water beneath a densely star-filled...
View ArticleI Loves You Porgy
First things first, a happy Father’s Day to all you fathers out there, including my own living down in Florida. I was going to say more about him today and some recent cognition troubles he’s been...
View ArticleSome Kinda Love
Sunday morning on a holiday weekend but no holiday here in the studio yet. No, not for another week or so as I get ready for my Home+Land show that opens in just under two weeks, on July 17 at the...
View ArticleEverything Stops For Tea
Sunday morning and I just finished my coffee/protein get-me-started drink and now am working on my first cup of tea for the day. Something soothing in the whole idea of tea. Maybe it’s the slowness of...
View ArticleCrawl Up and Die
It’s Sunday morning which means I usually play a little bit of music. This morning I didn’t have anything in particular in mind so I went to YouTube and just punched in something general then let...
View ArticleSunday on a Mastodon
It’s a pretty busy Sunday morning as I am in the midst of prepping for a two day workshop I’m giving this week in Penn Yan followed by my annual Gallery Talk at the Principle Gallery in Alexandria next...
View ArticleLa Rumba D’el Jefe
Sunday morning. It’s been a strange week spent trying to get some chores done around the studio and our home but not actually achieving as much as I had hoped. Most of my time has been spent thinking...
View ArticleIf Not Now
Another week with another tragedy that seems more and more uniquely American. Is this what is what people mean when they say American Exceptionalism? The airwaves are filled as always with the same...
View ArticleEvery Picture Tells a Story
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted […] There is no such thing as good painting about nothing. —Mark Rothko...
View ArticleStarry Night
The first heavy frost of the season lays on the ground this morning and the remaining orange and golden leaves on the trees cling tenuously. The air is sharply clean and there’s beautiful light...
View ArticleDimming of the Day
Sometimes on a Sunday morning I find myself surfing around on YouTube trying to find a song that strikes me just right, something that wants to be shared as my Sunday morning music. Today it started...
View ArticleThe Man Who Couldn’t Cry
November sneaks in on a gray and damp Sunday morning this year. It’s one of those months that bring about mixed memories. Some, like those from Thanksgivings from the past , are warm and fuzzy while...
View ArticleI Love Paris
I just don’t know. I am still trying to make sense of the attacks in Paris, trying to understand the logic of terrorism and how people are convinced to follow any quasi-religious group that advances...
View ArticleCasting Spells
“Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between” —Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book...
View Article“America- The Series”
Aww, change the channel. It’s a rerun… Wait, it’s not another rerun, just another mass shooting/ terror event in Anytown, USA. Another episode of America- The Series. Same basic script– crazy...
View ArticleSkating with Vince
In this part of the country, childhood memories from this time of the year usually include the cold and snow in some form. Frozen ponds with skaters on them. New sleds at Christmas going down white...
View ArticleA Child is Born
I am taking a short hiatus from writing the blog just to recharge a bit. This has been a part of my day for over seven years now and I have tried to put out something every day. But I am a little...
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