I recently finished this new painting, an 18″ by 26″ piece on paper, that is the newest addition to my Archaeology series. Titled Archaeology: Rainbow’s End, this painting features the subterranean debris field that marks this series including some of the recurring icons that show up in most, or at least many, of the pieces in [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Archaeology: Rainbow’s End
Posted in Recent Paintings, Technique/History, tagged Archaeology on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
That’s a Rockin’ Good Way
Posted in Music, Video, tagged Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, Ella Fitzgerald on November 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This song is That’s a Rockin’ Good Way sung by Dinah Washington and Brook Benton amd it made it to #7 on the Pop charts and #1 on the R&B charts in 1959. I heard this song on the radio yesterday and it made me think about Washington’s career and legacy. Known as both the Queen of [...]
Azilum
Posted in Recent Paintings, tagged French Azilum on November 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This is a new painting that is about 8″ high by 26″ wide on paper. I call this piece Azilum, using the French form of asylum or place of refuge. There is a place not too far from here in Northern Pennsylvania that is called French Azilum, which was formed around the time of the French [...]
Free Speech Comes With a Price
Posted in Current Events on November 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
These signs were placed on the company vehicles of US Cranes LLC in northern Georgia several months ago. It has only been in the last week or two that the signs, which say New Company Policy: We Are Not Hiring Until Obama Is Gone, have went viral. The company received so many angry emails and [...]
To the End of Time
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baucis and Philemon on November 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This is a new painting, 12″ by 18″ on paper, that I’m calling To the End of Time. It’s another take on the Baucis and Philemon theme that I have used and talked about here before, from the Greek myth from the poor couple who were favored by the Gods for their generosity of spirit [...]
Every Day Will Be Like a Holiday
Posted in Music, Video, tagged Stax/Volt, William Bell on November 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thanksgiving. It would be pretty easy to meander into maudlin territory when writing about such a day so I’ll spare you that today. I will say that I am thankful for many, many people and things in my life and try to keep that in mind every day. We often overlook those things which give our [...]
Prophet Royal Robertson
Posted in Biographical, Neat Stuff, tagged Prophet Royal Robertson on November 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve written here about a number of self-taught artists who create their work from some hidden inner core that demands expression. Some have suffered through forms of mental illness en route to their creations but perhaps none show the depth of their illness so readily as Royal Robertson, shown here in front of his home [...]
This Beats a Super Committee Any Day
Posted in Current Events, tagged Candler Arts on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was thinking about what to write today and was having a hard time in not going into a rant decrying the dysfunction of those in our government as is being brought to light by the failure of the so-called Super Committee. I was also having a hard time not screaming about the obnxoiuos Grover [...]
In the Blood
Posted in Biographical, Recent Paintings, tagged Chemung Valley History Museum, Recent Paintings on November 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This is a very small painting, just a 3″ by 5″ canvas, that I call In the Blood. The title may in some way relate to the subject of yesterday’s post where I discussed why someone stays in their hometown even though its flaws and inadequacies become more and more evident, more glaring in the [...]
“Why do we still live here?”
Posted in Opinion, tagged John Cleary, Star Gazette on November 20, 2011 | 4 Comments »
”Why do we still live here?” This question opened an article in the op-ed section yesterday in my local newspaper, the Star Gazette. Written by a younger columnist, John Cleary, it described his feelings over the possibility of leaving his lifelong home in Elmira, seeking a new home where the problems that now seem to beset the [...]
