People who debate about whether or not this or that pizza is the best in the world are missing the point. Pizza is all about context. It’s different in different places because it needs to be. It reflects the unique lifestyle of a particular area. Here’s how I see the two styles I’m most familiar […]
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Color warmth
Dec 11, '19Drypoints
Oct 08, '19Mango
Apr 15, '19Small works on wood panel
Sep 29, '188″ x 10″ landscapes
Sep 09, '18Made these over the summer. Acrylic/collage on canvas.
Lazy Chili
Sep 08, '18Just made this. It’s not quite bad. 1lb ground beef 1 jar salsa 1 can baked beans 1 tbsp chili powder 1/2tbsp paprika 1tsp cumin 1tsp ground black pepper 1/2tsp salt 1 can beer Brown and drain the beef. Mash it up with a fork or something. Throw in the other ingredients. Simmer for an […]
Contrast is the new context, which was the new content, which was the new format
Aug 26, '18In the beginning, format was king. The mere fact that we were reading something on the web made it important. It had somehow come to occupy this new medium, which in itself was novel and beautiful and confusing. Whoever put it there had to be smart, and therefore the content as well. Then, at some […]
Newspaper
Aug 19, '18I don’t even know what that is I read something about a 20 million dollar loss Whose loss? How does one even lose 20 mill? I spend the next 20 minutes looking for a new car In the classifieds, and land on one like new Kelly green Olds, only 40k and just inspected I call […]
Teaching
Aug 04, '18I’m a professor, which I suppose makes me a professional teacher. I instead like to think of myself as a professional learner. I believe that teaching is an extension of learning. It enhances learning. If I can teach you how to do something, it means I have learned it myself. There are other ways to […]
Summer sketching
Aug 01, '18Liking the Sharpie Pen on tracing paper
How trees work
May 23, '18Looking out my window at the leaves that finally came in the last few weeks, and having played this video game Fortnight where you build shieldish fortresses, I can see that my tree building a shield so it can incubate things along its thick brown branches behind the green ruse we use, we and our […]
LIRR
Apr 06, '18It started as I raced toward the escalator, trying to make it up to the train. They were getting on, only one of them casting a glance backward. Her eyes were deep and wet and blue and soft, the warm sun glinting from their epicenters. Then the mechanism of things pulled me away; I noted […]
From my new stuff
Apr 05, '18Art as Anthropology part 1
Apr 03, '18I often think of Picasso’s famous quote, “Art is the sum of my destructions”. I’ve always gotten that. Whenever I make art, I feel like the second I’m close to that perfect line, shade, shape or texture, there’s all this pressure that I’m gonna fuck up. When that happens, I imagine a little Picasso sitting […]
Where they Bury the Bikes series
Mar 29, '18Gouache studies for bikes series
Mar 25, '18Where they bury the bicycles series
Mar 23, '18The Darkness
Mar 21, '18I recently read an article about someone who experienced trauma when they were very young, and how it manifested itself for the rest of his life as “the darkness”, a kind of demonic presence that was always looming. It was a very sad read. Though a very busy person, he found no joy in work, […]