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Three Away

9/6/2023

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"2023 No.7", (state 12), oil on canvas, 52⅞x42⅝

Drawing 09·01·2023, pencil on paper, 20x16 inches

"2023 No.8" (state 07), oil on canvas, 50x41½ inches

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New Art: "Elopement"

5/24/2023

"Elopement" (2023 No.6, state 01), oil on canvas, 35x48 inches

Angels on Their Way

4/12/2023

"Amongst Angels" (2023 No.5), oil on canvas, 43⅝x56⅛ inches

Nova

2/12/2023

"Course of Action" (2023 No.2, state 01), oil on canvas, 50x63 inches

Drawing 02·11·2023, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

The Search Continues

10/8/2022

"Catapult" (2022 No.10, state 1), oil on canvas, 58x56 inches

The wish for easy is always with me. If it were easy this process would not be driving me toward self-realization, to self-fulfillment. This is state 1 of the painting, "Catapult." Far it is from true. More hard work necessary.

Invention thru Love

2/17/2022

Drawing 02·15·2022, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

"Silence, Exile, and Cunning" (2022 No.1, state 1), oil on canvas, 45½x57 inches, {"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use, silence, exile, and cunning." - James Joyce (1882-1941), "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" (1916)}

My Art is invention; drawing is the means, not the motivation. I am creating a world that suits my love of drawing because drawing disentangles my need, my desire, my love of touch; drawing is feeling through marking. Drawing is sexual in nature and much more. I touch, I feel, I think, I mark, therefore I am. Drawing is an act of self-discovery, a search for core values through touch, light, form, and place.

My whole life is instigated by being wrong. Failure inspires me to search again.

Yesterday I began a new painting, aptly entitled "Silence, Exile, and Cunning” (from James Joyce’s “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”).

Not and No, Yes, and But...

1/1/2022

Drawing 12·31·2021, pencil on paper, 16x20 inches

Many things looks right until they don't. This drawing looks good to me, but I have my doubts. Yes, no; could it be something incorrectly formed? Might there be something I am not seeing correctly, or, but for a fool I am. I do not know with absolutism, so I will continue to do what I am doing. I doubt, therefore I go on, I make new stuff. Here I am on the first day of 2022. Looking back upon least year's work, I believe I have come to understand a few things better than when I began 2021. I will continue to make an effort see better. Happy New Year! I wish the best to us all!

Never-ending Anew

10/2/2021

Drawing 09·28·2021, pencil on paper, 20x16 inches

New is old and old is new; tis true because invention is reinvention cuz all that is has been before.

It took me several days of revisits to complete this drawing, which looks new to me, but, of course, it is not. Its quality is high; that's helps make it new, better. I find the definitive back-wall very interesting. That back-wall is a solid place to begin the origin of this drawing's movement. This quality infests me with surprise. I like this drawing.

Seeing & Believing

10/1/2021

"Measure Anew" (2021 No.9, state 01), oil on canvas, 54½x54⅛ inches, {"I had become a new person; and those who knew the old person laughed at me. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went in with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." -George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Man and Superman" (1903)}

Surprised, dazed, and in question — that is the tenacious and uncomfortable life I am living. I am hanging in, always anew, always judgmental, always in worry. Thankfully, here comes the painting, "Measure Anew". It is what I do. I am George Bernard Shaw's tailor; I measure anew every time I see myself.

Learning

10/4/2020

"Stubborn & Egotistical" (2020 No.4, state 1), oil on canvas, 64½x55 inches {"If we've learned anything from the best-selling 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' children's book series, it's that those who see themselves surrounded by idiots are usually idiots themselves." -Jakob Augstein, "Stubborn and Egotistical" (Spiegel Online, 3/25/2013)}

This painting, "Stubborn & Egotistical", is a fascinating research project. It is the simplicity of two major forms. This cannot hold. These objects will become more interesting as they take their journey into determinant, painterly objects; they will be cajoled till they exude spirit and consequence.

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