It’s a blessed thing, obscurity! Not to be unknown, but to be generally unknown. It would be a thing to be lamented to be utterly without beloved relations in the world, but to be obscure to the general public has it’s wonderful joys. It’s much more fun to share the joys of life with close...
Subtractive, additive, and restorative: these are the scupture methodologies familiar to me. One of them has been an acquired taste and expensive. Actually, done right, they’re all expensive. I almost have the passion of Rodin with scupture, so this latest attempt has been strange in a Jonah-like way. Jonah was the biblical prophet who was...
There’s a story told of a farmer who lost use of a bit of his field to an enormous boulder, far too large to move or excavate. Only the rounded top protruded. He simply plowed around it year after year. Farmers have that tendency to be earthy-practical. Their attitudes impress me and in many cases...
It pays to ask. Answers come to those who do. When I was a kid, I asked myself exactly what beauty is. Decades passed before I got an answer, and it left me unable to produce art for months. At age 10 I assumed it would amount to angles and spatial relationships and shapes. I...
There are times when a written letter becomes a treasure and it’s all the better because it was actually created by the hand of it’s author. Brain to hand to paper to eye to heart. Similarly, the direct sketch is made all the better by the knowledge that it was drawn by the hand of...
