“Pick out which ever one you want.” I can still hear my father’s voice. “I want the best one, a really big one!” I’d always say, then we’d sort through the pile of pumpkins at the local supermarket, picking up one, then the next, singling out a few likely candidates, comparing and rejecting until we […]
…or a wall of sound?When I listen to music I automatically see structures, shapes, forms, and colors moving and developing through time. A simple melody bursts forth in my mind as a glittering artifact in four dimensions. Tempo, rhythm and beat set the foundation and spacing of the structure. Musical phrases build a myriad of
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Top: Child With Flower, Oil on Canvas, (1945) ~ Pablo Picasso “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso It was a cool clear NYC day in early September 2001 when my life effectively ended. That sounds like a very dramatic and ominous
Just yesterday my mother asked me if I missed New York City. I think she was expecting a different answer than the one I gave her. I miss it every day. I don’t even need to close my eyes to see the busy streets, the lights, the people. I often recall where West 47th, 7th
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While cleaning up a pile of branches that have been lying around Overleaf for over a year, these colorful patches caught my eye. Brown, Turquoise, Purple, Copper, Yellow, and White. Various colors, that I assume denote various types of mold working diligently to turn the dead wood of fallen branches into dirt. As a color
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Paradise, Shangri-la, Eden, Nihon Teien, Arcadia… gardens go by many names. Whatever they are called, it’s a long accepted theme across many cultures that a garden is a metaphor for life. Just as we select and edit pieces of the natural outside world to create our garden, we select the objects, the ideas, and even
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Summer in a red mesh bag. Found in the bin at the grocery store. Thrown in the freezer until the heat of the afternoon. Plastic tubes of almost too sweet frozen shards of red, orange, purple, green, yellow, and blue. So sweet they almost seemed bitter, so cold you could barely hold them. Freeze Pops
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Pictured above: Oakmoss Lichen – Evernia Prunastri, and Common Greenshield Lichen – Flavoparmelia Caperata. Oakmoss has the tree branch appearance, and Greenshield is the smoother one with cup formations and little black hairs. Lichens… Those in the picture above are only two of many I remember discovering, collecting, and studying as a child. I was
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In this first Raves and Faves post I’d like to give a little time to one of my favorite stylistic periods, the much loved and often reviled style that became a movement, introduced in Paris at the 1925, “Le Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes,” in English, “The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative
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