Welcome 2021. Welcome, welcome, welcome. In a burst of gratitude to 2021 being right around the bend I did these. I needed to put something down on a surface. And after painting 2021 once I couldn’t resist doing it more so I added three boards to the batch. Four in all. Hope loves company.
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Richard, my apartment building neighbor upstairs, used to give me fruitcakes at holiday time. Even in his 80’s he’d walk up to Macy’s Herald Square and bring them back. He was quite the fellow. In 2009 I used the plastic fruitcake container as canvas for his December 17th birthday gift. As for the fruitcake, it […]
WORDS ON FRAME: Life, Birth, Flesh, Bone, Soul, Point of View, Cast. It’s a toss of the coins. This is one of the first pieces where I wrote on the frame, painted on the glass, and affixed the two so as to make the frame and image inseparable.
This is another of my paintings with a question as a title. Questions are a pattern with me. Here I’m whispering about the acceptability of male conversation and what’s natural for males and their biologic selves. What is? And what are our patterns? What have we learned? Often for me it’s the sheer asking of questions that requires […]
This piece was painted the five days prior to 9/11. The frame came first in the creative process. In the culture of my heritage questions are powerful things, veritably the language of endeavor, and in some cases some questions are worth scribing. I judged this question as worthy. So I wrote it down. As for answers […]
This was done as a study for a math mid-term I was taking. I did well on the test but looking back on this piece I see the hoops and hilarity of the task. Never do I use this information. It is beauty as art and/or beauty as numbers…depending who’s looking.