How is it going to end up?

Garish Fragments

Great Art is 

     Irrational

MAD

 

with its own loveliness

Jim Dine and the Donkey portrait

light rain and local showers

Local showers

Two Children

An estatic gesture - here - this; his throwing the hose into the air is more than Watering the garden, it is a full circle; A start and A finish - dextrously - warding off and inspiring the breathing spirit - opening his heart and lungs while she conjures a half genuflection.

My Neighbors House

The white house with black shutters across the road from me - my neighbors; with their tractors and garden, the blackberry bushes and the mowed lawns with the pink mimosa tree leaning into the pond in the summer; then it is invisible, for my hedge row of trees is all I can see.http://www.blogger.com/

He who gives quickly gives twice

When this poor fellow was working for me he asked to be paid for the job before it was complete - with only a little work promised !


I had some greens and some fruits I was perhaps going to eat or should I give them to my chickens ?


Well the already paid for work promised never was finished - And - The produce could have been given sooner in a much fresher state -

Notes To Remember By

Yesterday evening as the darkness slowly approached I lay looking west -Watching- the the top of the shag bark hickory tree - Changing - from grey to a fiery golden color.

Here these trees had a blue ? purple ? moment - an other-worldly feeling pushing out of the greys. Me with my new colors adjusting - making due.

Guatanamo bay

OK say we had citizens of USA *adopt* these detainees - treat them well - perhaps celebrities like Brad Pitt could lead the way .......- you know - All of us - even if we are having a difficult time - perhaps we invested with Mr Madoff or just lost a job ? Still - what are we going to do with these men whom we have tortured for 8 years ?

You are the herdsman of the evening

Yesterday I went to a lecture at the Arts club Chicago given by Chrissie Iles on German Artist Sigmar Polke. When I first saw the paintings the day before at the opening tea - I did not like them - I thought they were disjointed and with out heart - the slickness of the corrugated clear covering - That covered each work - seemed with out heart or purpose. After the lecture and seeing them a second time my feelings were reversed in and I realized the possibilities for my own work and my own images - I became interested in the layered *effects* the letter press or tarot card - nursery rhyme images and really saw some poetry that was personal to me. The fabric and the funny optics are tricks I am going to play with - in my imagination.

This Drypoint with the extreme Chinese overlay is one of the pieces that leads me to these ideas - the gold leaf japan paper the careful mistakes and the backwardness of the writing - personal and for me overflowing with meaning.