Journal
Take a look at what I am thinking about — in the studio, outside the studio, when I gather materials, in the midst of my creative process,
or as I contemplate the trends in today's art world.
At some point in your art career you will hear,” You are an artist? How lucky!” This sentiment may be expressed in the same week that you get a look of suspicion or even revulsion from someone else who finds out what you do. usually out of line with the reality …
Read MoreUntil recently, we still wanted to believe in individualism, in the story of the hero who defeats overwhelming odds to bring home the prize. We could see—and maybe we still can—the modern re-tellings of the ancient myths. Orpheus and Eurydice: the lover who will give up everything for his beloved, but still he is helpless to .…
Read MorePerception has been a popular subject in art for a long time. Particularly, the sociology of perception. Lacan and “gaze theory”, Derrida and deconstruction, Foucault and surveillance theory, Iregary and the female self separate from male constructions., among others. All the just mentioned ideas have stimulated discussion …
Read MoreThe question at first glance seems silly, as in, “If you have to ask, you ain’t ever gonna know,” to paraphrase Louis Armstrong. But even if one is comfortable with one’s own practice, it’s still a useful question once in a while.Particularly if you think art is just self-expression or decoration, because then you will be missing the majority of the important significant art projects on display every year …
Read MoreInspiration is something that all creative types live with. Either the inspiration tap is dry or it is flowing too much and the overspill causes a bit of internal havoc. Inspiration is such a hackneyed but necessary concept that the word is part of our daily conversation …
Read MoreIn the midst of Covid-19, artists and art-lovers may wonder about the proper response to the pandemic. Caution and dread aside, what are we to do in our art practice? There may be as many responses as there are types of people, but in general, the pose one sees ranges from complete self-isolation to …
Read MoreGenes At Play came out of my conviction that Reality is both an ongoing mode of creation, maintenance, and renewal and at the same time an act of play, an insouciant gesture whose constantly changing meanings are just beyond us. Kids get it, though. …
Read MoreThe photo shows a part of my studio in Roberts Creek Fortunately, I can clean up my space. I do have somewhere else to move the paints and brushes, and I have occasionally even operated in a clean studio. …
Read MoreThe idea for this painting came from my study of the basic unity of phenomena in the Universe. Beauty is a value we assign experience. Whether we are looking at the stars or at the arrangement of flowers
Read MoreThe world is not only heating up in the limited sense of climate change. We are beset with fanaticism, wars, viruses, acceleration of perverse imagery whose aim seems to be only to control our attention and possibly our …
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