"towards.gratitude"

Bev sampled - trees in a snowy English field. This field is also sampled in the lonely basement.

Andrea used the word "grateful" in a recent comment and that is such an extraordinary word, under used and, thus, packed with meaning.

There really is so much to be grateful for - family, friends, talents, et cetera.

I have been reaching out via this blog for about a year now - maybe a few weeks less. I am grateful that I have met so many of you, shared your art and gotten glimpses of your lives.

When I look at my art from a year ago I see that it has evolved and much has to do with the encouragement and inspiration I have gotten here. Gracias.

My best.

"win.ter"

Cherry blossoms are a memory and our months long fate - this image, cropped and man.ipu.late.d, came from the same gene pool as my image in the post directly below.

Twist and turns. Frost.bites.

In the Van Gogh exhibit currently at MOMA one of my favorite paintings, "The Sower," is strongly influenced by the Japanese wood block print. I have been borrowing a lot from Japan lately.

"when.fall"

"fast.food.leave"

Playing with Japanese leaf - bento plate - fast food wrapped like a pretty present.

Since the night Obama got elected I have had a cough and a cold - got better and worse - these are excerpts from a larger work that is missing its rudder. Cough, cough, cough.

Having a wee bit of artist block....have a great week.

"cy.pan"

Cyprus and Japan - Frances and Joanne.

Carob and a lost.and.found treasure - it's a wrap.per

I am intrigued by Joanne's work - see my blog link to "Found in Japan." Years ago I looked for and photographed random refuse and tried to find beauty in litter- Joanne brings her finds home to record in her scanner.

Recently I sampled Lisa's "Christmas trees for sale" photograph and that image can be found in the basement and also with syrup.

"negative.space"

I guess these days I am just exploring and posting - raw vegetables - like Rocky pounding a slab of beef.

"cheap.ly"

"sliver"

Frances again, Cyprus, again - mucho manipulated.

An exercises....one, two, three, four - who else liked jumping jacks? I am still partial to squat thrusts.

Black is the new black. I know this is cheap. Sorry.

Here is a small version of a peaceful Frances photograph (I played with the color):



The sliver was taken from this snippet:



Cold.err in NYC today - saw my first flurry of the season. It actually was a lovely Nutcracker fairy dance flurry, but for my cold hands....heat bills.

"wri.ting"

this.is.a.test.it.is.only.a.test.should.this.have.been.an.actual.emergency

"sigh.prus"

Frances image , man.ipulated. A type of tree there in Cyprus, I forget the.rest.in.peace.

I should read all the blog.words - I know - but I am ADD, which is to opposite of SUBTRACT.

A detail, further edited.

"two.knees.knocking"

"within.which"

F5 print screen and cut and place.

"slip.and.fall"


"third.frost"

Using a Lisa spider web...

"two.knees"

"the.way.love.mis.pelled.is.still.seen"

"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make...."

abbey.rocky.road

"study"


"at.dusk.at.sunrise"

Continued play. When I started this blog, close to two years ago, I focused on a possible show with dancer. This is sort of like revisiting that era with different skill set and increased digital experience and tool set.

Each day I think they should be better.

"side.ways"

Neck disappears. Jackie O. disappears.

Rothko.esque.ish

"quest.ions"

I am experimenting - taking a small set of internet images of an attractive woman, but the photos are representational, out of focus, etc. So I am playing - cropping, altering, disrupting. And the limitations entertain, challange, sort of problem solving.

And creation, So here we go again....

Listening to a live The Decemberists concert on NPR....


"binary.laws"

"gold.en.d"

Bad cold interrupts art. I always appreciate the first day that I am well, then I forget and good health is taken for granted.

Like so many other comforts. We should not take so many things for grant.ed.

I voted with my two little ones - I let them pull the bar and took a photo inside the booth. They hammed it up.

History. Something so many of us just a year ago never imagined, dreamed, could happen.

Am I being too optimistic that we as a nation are moving more towards a global orientation? The financial crisis already proved that we need to respond globaly rather than parochialy.

It is a generational shift, a newer more constructive world order. Someone, somehow, not rooted in 1950s cold.war ideology. Maybe, a son of the sixties. Still, you need more than love. Hope can be a start.

Politics cannot remain as usual - bickering and half efficient compromises. We should punish, vote out, those that cannot shift.

"an.other.day"

"want.ing"

pearls and dreams, again

"close.up.s"

"west.26th"

Sampled here is Japan, New Zealand and San Diego.