Some Advice

BAZONKA
Say Bazonka every day
That’s what my grandma used to say
It keeps at bay the Asian Flu’
And both your elbows free from glue.
So say Bazonka every day
(That’s what my grandma used to say)
Don’t say it if your socks are dry!
Or when the sun is in your eye!
Never say it in the dark
(The word you see emits [...]

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Just the Other Side of Blue

CLINICAL SIGNIFICANCE
● 62.1% of all bankruptcies have a medical
cause.
● Most medical debtors were well educated
and middle class; three quarters
had health insurance.
● The share of bankruptcies attributable
to medical problems rose by 50% between
2001 and 2007.
This is a new piece I’m working on that I’m calling Just the Other Side of Blue.  It’s on canvas and is [...]

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Chinese Translation

Saturday morning and it’s gray and damp here in my part of the world.  Still August but the fingers of autumn are insinuating themselves in more and more each day, which is fine with me.  I like the damp and cool.
Like being in the cool cover of a forest in the mountains, maybe a bamboo [...]

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Suspended In Time

I finished this piece the other day.  It’s an 8″ by 24″ canvas and is painted in what I have previously termed my obsessionist style.
Probably the thing that stands out most is the absence of a tree of any sort, particularly the Red Tree.  It still is there as a possibility as the painting sits [...]

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Hundertwasser

I ran into the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser , a contemporary (1928-2000) Austrian artist,  several years ago at a gallery in Boston and was immediately drawn to his work.
It was probably not a surprise as his work focused primarily on color and organic forms with few straight lines and had a strong individualized vocabulary.  His [...]

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Poor Old Dirt Farmer

Strange confluences.
I was going through some old work and came across this piece just as a random track came up on my iPod.  It was a Levon Helm song, the sort of title track from his latest CD, Dirt Farmer.
It really went together beautifully and the rhythm of Levon’s music kind of captured how I [...]

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Just a Thought

The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings…
As the shadow follows the body,
As we think, so we become.

From the Dhammapada
Sayings of the Buddha

This immediately brought [...]

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On the Canal

This is a new piece, temporarily titled On the Canal, that I completed this weekend.  This painting is kind of an extension of my Red Roof series that I have been working on for a number of years.  This piece and a few others like it from earlier in the year are different than earlier [...]

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3 Party System?

You hear people, somewhere under the din of all the screaming that passes for political discourse, that we are still hampered by our two-party political system, that we need a third choice.
And there have been times when that seems logical but looking at the current political diorama, I can only conclude that we are in [...]

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Durer’s Pentaflakes

Whenever I stumble on anything from Albrecht Durer, the 16th century German artist, I am immediately humbled by the magnificence of his works.  His paintings are beautiful, combining delicacy and strength to create a naturalism that was unusual in its time.  This self-portrait is one of my favorite pieces of portraiture.  His engravings are masterpieces [...]

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