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Story telling in art goes back to the caves and probably beyond. Those first pictures and other graphic symbols were not graffiti or decoration, they…
Apr 8
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March 2024
Back to the Present
Do you ever find yourself looking back to the present? Memories drift from the past but update themselves in a strange way. They can hibernate for…
Mar 25
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February 2024
Enigma
Water moves. It shimmers, reflects and distorts. It can leave either a photostatic or fluid image on your optic nerve. It’s a vision circulating among…
Feb 28
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Explosive
There are any number of ways and reasons to make art. It can be prim and decorative. It can soar with dramatic flourish. Some art is emotionally…
Feb 8
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January 2024
Floating
Some paintings are a seductive opening to an inner world: imagination. It’s like reading the opening lines in a work by Edgar Allen Poe, Ray Bradbury or…
Jan 25
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The Paint Moves
The Loose Placement of Color
Jan 11
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December 2023
A Personal Solstice
Usually, art is just a pleasant thing. Pretty pictures. You feel good…there is nothing new or threatening in the way of ideas. Life is a walk in a…
Dec 21, 2023
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Living Light
No art is as animated as stained glass windows. Each segment comes to life and flaunts its singular character. It smiles and laughs and celebrates each…
Dec 3, 2023
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November 2023
Exalted
Art has no meaning, no value other than what we give it. To see beauty we have to see beautifully—we must look with an exalted effort. And suddenly, as…
Nov 16, 2023
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October 2023
Communal Prayer
Cities, collective societies, go back to Neolithic peoples like Gobekli Tepe in Turkey. The massive stone pillars are adorned with sculptural reliefs of…
Oct 27, 2023
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Quick Note #2
We are in very discouraging times. Humans are at each other’s throats in many places. Why? I can’t find a good reason. Is there ever a compelling need…
Oct 23, 2023
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Spiritual Energy
All creativity needs passion to be art. It is the hunger that matters—the raging connection among all of your senses and those dual, but divergent…
Oct 5, 2023
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