Jul 24, 20201 min read
Covid Art 80: Scaling heights with friends (Kathy)
In this collage I’ve used Japanese rice paper, a tourist postcard of Zermatt Peak in Switzerland, a page from Heidi’s hiking song book...
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Jul 23, 20201 min read
Covid Art 79: In the footsteps of arte povera
In 1987 I studied art in Urbino and was taken with the arte povera movement that started in Italy. Kirt Schwitters and others who made...
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Jul 23, 20201 min read
Covid Art 77: Do you like my hat?
This photograph is so unlike the other formal pictures. Here, a youngish man in a straw hat and a walking stick gazes at the camera in a...
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Jul 23, 20201 min read
Covid Art 78: India Gate #3
This is the 3rd and last of my India Gate drawings from my insitu sketches while visiting India in 2005. It was a mediocre sketch so I...
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Jul 21, 20201 min read
Covid Art 76: Assurance that spring will come
This beautiful small photograph of the woods in France in late autumn or early spring lining a country path is paired with a young lady...
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Jul 21, 20201 min read
Covid Art 75: EB 1895: By knowledge beguiled
Another in the series of Encyclopedia Britannica index from 1895. Here, I’ve poked fun at teachers in a high school, primly posed for...
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Jul 20, 20201 min read
Covid Art 74: She who shall be obeyed!
This is a very complex piece, and partially autobiographical. Start at the bottom at the very stern-faced woman I think might have been a...
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Jul 20, 20201 min read
Covid Art 73: 1892 letter and couple not getting along
The Missus is looking straight at the camera, daring it to document her state of mind. Her beloved is looking elsewhere: why? So I...
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Jul 19, 20201 min read
Covid Art 72: EB 1895: Ivory Tower Knowledge
If you’ve read other posts, you’ll know I inherited the Encyclopedia Britannica and it inspired me in 2012 to make a series of works. In...
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Jul 19, 20201 min read
Covid Art 71: French Artichoke and Tomato
More from my magical market visits in Provence, this one from August 2, 2000. Were the tomatoes really that bright there and then? They...
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Jul 18, 20201 min read
Covid Art 70: Architectural Drawing
This might be my favorite piece on the wall. It starts with a fragment of a print that I cut away from the original, and then folded back...
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Jul 17, 20201 min read
Covid Art 69: Releasing energy
When the structures of the silicon wafers became too confining, I poured gesso on heavy French Arches paper. The thick viscous gesso,...
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Jul 16, 20201 min read
Covid Art 67: 1892 Ladies Home Journal underwear ads
We’re all feeling the discomfort of face masks under California’s Covid 19 rules: its nearly 100 degrees every day this week and the...
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Jul 16, 20201 min read
Covid Art 68: Why I became an artist
In 1991 I was introduced to an artist who photographed toasted bread among other things. I clearly remember her saying she doesn’t have...
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Jul 15, 20201 min read
Covid Art 65: EB 1895 Knowledge Magnified
Still or again ruminating about how short our lives are in contrast to a thing, like an encyclopedia, or a print made from worn out...
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Jul 15, 20201 min read
Covid Art 66: 1845 Farmer’s Almanac Front Pages
Because my mother’s life was serrated and nearly destroyed in World War 2, she left very little of her early life behind. One item was...
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Jul 14, 20201 min read
Covid Art 64: Odalesque
Lucian Freud’s Odalesque When you take drawing classes in art school, you study specific works of art as well as genres of art. French...
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Jul 13, 20201 min read
Covid Art 63: Wedding Cake for 4
Two long-ago couples celebrate their love in their wedding pictures. To commemorate their special day, I placed them on the brightest...
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Jul 12, 20201 min read
Covid Art 62: Strange flora
This is a fragment of a two plate print from 2001. I added a hand drawn and colored leaf to an engimatic antique photo of a Victorian man...
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Jul 11, 20201 min read
Covid Art 61: Body Strutting by
So much of this collage is about walking, hiking, time spent in landscapes singing with the pleasure of beauty and friendship. I loved...
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