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I Wish I Was the Moon

Posted in Video, tagged on June 19, 2010| 4 Comments »

Under a Pale Eye-- GC Myers 2010

Saturday morning and there’s a cloudiness of thought and as I sit here, wanting to say something of value, I find myself an empty vessel.  There’s not always something there when you reach down inside so I put this aside for a while and listen to some music, putt around the studio and look at things.  Read a post on another blog that sets me thinking.  It was about the act of forgetting, losing all the details of an experience.  Remembering only your view and not taking in the whole.  The richness of the entirety.

Maybe that’s not even what this blogger was trying to say but we tend to transform what we hear or read or see into something that pertains to our own base of experience and knowledge, if only to try to understand what is being said. 

As I’m wrestling with this in my foggy mind, a song comes on.  I Wish I Was the Moon from Neko Case.  And it fits  as I find myself wishing I, too, were the moon, fleeing the rising sun that is beginning to flood through my studio windows.  Wish I were the moon casting light on wherever my eye might fall and cloaking the rest in the shelter of darkness.  And I think of this piece, Under a Pale Eye.  And in it, I am the moon, if only for a moment.

But the sun is shining bright and the fog begins to lift from my mind and I am no longer the moon.  For now…

Here’s Neko Case–

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In Our Nature

Posted in Favorite Things, Opinion, Video, tagged on November 22, 2009| 4 Comments »

Another Sunday morning.  Hunting season here, so I listen for the inevitable gunshots that ring through the forests around my place.  Not too many.  Certainly not like it was a number of years back when it sounded like a shooting gallery on the first days of the season.  I’m not a hunter, never really have been , but I have no problem with responsible hunters in the woods.  The hunters who have a level of reverence for their prey and selectively hunt.  It’s the cretins with no respect for the creatures they’re hunting, who are only out there for a thrill kill, that bother me.

There’s an element of selfish cruelty in these guys that pisses me off because it’s the same element of selfishness and cruelty that is present in so many of the horrible deeds that make one want to turn off the evening news in disgust.  I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.  It’s nothing new, just a part of who we are as a species.  How can one expect something to do other than what is in its nature?

That brings me to my song for today from Neko Case, who is a real favorite of mine.  It’s People Got a Lot of Nerve and its message  is pretty close to what I said above.  Why be surprised when any creature, including man, does what is in its nature?

Have a great Sunday…

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Penelope

Posted in Recent Paintings, Video, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2009| Leave a Comment »

PenelopeThis painting is titled Penelope after the wife of Ulysses who waited in Ithaca for his return, putting off suitors, in Homer’s The Odyssey.  Where I live in the Finger Lakes region of New York state, many of the small towns and villages are named from the classics.  There is Hector, Homer, Ovid, Ithaca, Sparta, Carthage, Romulus and so on.

When I was younger and became aware of the original places from which the names of these local towns were adopted, I always wondered about the people who settled these towns and decided what their new towns should be called.  What was the person like who decided that their new town would be Sparta and they would be the new Spartans?  In what trait in themselves did these people see a connection with the original Spartans?  Maybe it was a matter of dissuading other settlers from pushing into their newly claimed home.  You know- don’t screw with us, we’re Spartans.  It’s hard to see now, Sparta being a sleepy rural township above Cayuga Lake with hardly a sign of any carnage existing.

This painting is another going to my show at the Principle Gallery in June.  As I’ve written before, I am in the midst of preparations for this show , keeping me very busy.  I’ve got to run now but I wanted to leave a song from one of my favorites, Neko Case.  Her live CD, The Tiger’s Have Spoken, is a dynamic set that really showcases her powerful voice.  There’s a certain wistful quality there that I can’t put my finger on.  It’s definitely here in Maybe Sparrow…

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