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Manifesto of a Solitary Artist in the Age of Unenlightenment
A Confession, a Conclusion, a Manifesto….Otherwise titled, Five Years in the Journey of a Artist in the Age of UnenlightenmentOtherwise titled… Onward!Five years ago I sat a table with a small group of friends and revealed to them my decision to step away from the...
Dreams and Visions – paintings in their raw states
I have made two decisions this month.One is to leave paintings in their raw state.The Other is to share all of my visions, even the ones I have been quiet about.I don't turn on a lightbulb. I see in the darkness and find my way through it.What i see in the dark, i...
The Holes in the Fabric of Forgetting
Ancestry Cloth is an esoteric act, a symbolic act, a metaphor for the immigrant, for the nomad, for the wanderer. It is a daily meditation, weaving together a forgetful monochromatic present with the colors and patterns just beyond memory. When I'm cutting and...
The Tiger and the Swan
Authors note: I wrote and illustrated this story over 15 years ago. I never really did anything with it except to send it to one publisher and read it to the Quaker Friends Sunday School, and to my elementary students in Washburn, WI. Some recent events made me...
Visionary Painting
Visionary Painting is a very broad term that many people claim. In my opinion they are all valid but they are all not the same.I am not borrowing other's philosophies that speak to me and making illustrative collages with known images in order to communicate my...
Ancestors – India
To speak of Ancestors of to speak of the past in its human form. Dad leaving IndiaAn Ancestor Cape I finished this weekAll my life I’ve thought about India. Before I was born my father left on a ship. It set his life on a course that took him...
Layers, Labyrinths and Ancestors
Mughals Dream 1996I've been so busy sewing cloth lately I can't find time to write, but I have thoughts floating through my mind that threaten to leave me if I don't give them my full attention. Thoughts can be fickle and needy that way. But perhaps...
A Brief Introduction to Ancestry Cloth
I made a promise to myself that I would start to write about art again when I felt like I had something to say, something worth putting out into the world. That’s a heavy proposition. Who has something relevant to say? With all the voices on the...
The Journey
It's one of many overused phrases in our culture, that, once full of possibility, have become slogans that sell everything. (especially cars) But... nevertheless... I have to start this post with these words:It is not the destination.It IS the...
I’m back… writing about art
I finished this painting today, stopping at a point that I would have not been able to leave alone in the past.I've been thinking about getting back into the habit of writing about art lately. I've probably been thinking about it for more than two months, but it...