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Its been almost 2 years since I've written out into the world.  The swirl of interiorness and the onslaught of news from the globe and friends somehow pressed me into a continual working mode. Aside from painting I decided to take an old idea, rewrite it, illustrate...

Covid Winter

Even though it's been a year of seasons I think of it as the Covid Winter.  It started in the cold of 2020 & here we are in the snows of February.  I went from small pictures to big.  I went with the ebb & flow of images & impulses.   I logic-ed nothing. ...

And Then What….?

The last Hungry Eye was written over 6 months ago on April 2, 2020.  Since/during the world has pressed in with a siege of wordy engines, the sound of sirens and helicopters & a smoked-out sky drifted in from the west coast.  It has also fallen away as I continue...

Corona Diary

Almost three weeks inside except for a few walks to the local park where people & their dogs interlace the beginnings of Spring.....it's been me, the cats, & the painting wall.  I haven't figured out anything about the world or myself.  I'm decidedly wierd and...

What is the What

What is it that a painting is? Illusion, replication, metaphor, cry from the heart, social intervention? Recently a comment about one of my pictures got me off on a long ride through such thoughts. It was mentioned that the painting might be seen as metaphor but this...

Materials & Materiality

I've been thinking about materials and how they change the feel of a picture. A watercolor, ideally, has a lightness, an implication of ephemerality in its thereness. Ink can be both vaporous and definitive and often, at its best, leaves a lot for the paper to say....

The Tangs and I

There is a famous scene in John Woo's Hard Boiled where Chow Yun-Fat rescues a baby and raps to sooth its cries, as shots are fired and bodies drop in the ensuing battle. The quality of lightness in the midst of chaos, the lovely face of the child listening to the...

Extremes

Loose or tight-focused, slippery or with edges... individual pictures dictate the hand. Will there be lots of clearly rendered details or will things be loosey-goosey? I don't seem to be able to control it. Once I tried to ease up the brushwork on a painting and it...

Small

Sometimes its nice to work small under the illusion of casual and quick.  Occasionally that turns out to be true, but often the actual size of a picture isn't related to it's scale, nor to the amount of effort needed to make it work.But I'm always fooled into thinking...

The Embedded Form

Recently someone told me that my paintings are about people.  And then added:  the human form, even if it doesn't appear that way.  That stopped me.  Not something anyone else has said, even in different words. I let the thoughts swim around in the back of my brain...