My Philadelphia Story

May 14, 2016

“My Philadelphia Story is the serendipity of meeting new people from familiar places in this amazing American city which has such a history itself, and which is now my home of choice.” Last month at the April meeting of the Dumpster Divers, kissin’ cousin Carol Cole (no, not the one I grew up with back […]

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Alden’s New Age Bordello Lamps, now at the DaVinci Art Alliance, 704 Catharine Street, Philadelphia PA

May 11, 2016

“Think of decorative lighting as architectural jewelry. It can dress up or dress down the look.” – Randall Whitehead, San Francisco lighting designer & writer Birdland • 32″ evening lamp composed of a miscellany of found and painted parts • collection of Rick and Marna Mitchell In April I submitted one of my more elaborate […]

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1986: my May Day move to Philadelphia

May 2, 2016

Philadelphia Skyline 1986 • photo taken from the roof of 1513 S. 6th Street This weekend celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of my arrival in this burg on 1 May 1986 – my MayDay M’aidez move, just weeks before turning forty-two. Sometime after nine a.m. on Wednesday 30 April 1986 I got into my small red-Chevy […]

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1982: the year of paradox — back to Nature & back to the City

April 27, 2016

Wentworth-by-the-Sea as seen from a Newcastle, NH Cemetery • oil on canvas 16″ x 20″ painted August 1982 • collection of Diane Kirkup Thus it was that in May of 1982, when the cozy little cabin I’d been living in for the winter was about to triple in rent for the upcoming summer tourist season, […]

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Up on the roof, with Mille and Ange

April 25, 2016

“We all play the leading role in our own situation comedy, but occasionally it’s fun to play the goofy friend in somebody else’s.” – Robert Brault, whose dates I quote from an email earlier this week: (DOB: 11/7/1938. DOD: Under Negotiation) I’ve known Victoria Camille Bengochea (31 Jan 1996 – ) daughter of good friends […]

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Moving On… my country idyll draws to a close

April 17, 2016

“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” – Robert Brault The Summer of 1981 was the last summer season I lived in the country. And what a summer it was! I was living alone, earning a decent salary working five days-a-week for the publishing house of Samuel Weiser in […]

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Disce ut semper victurus, vive ut cras moriturus

April 10, 2016

“Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.” I was either fourteen or fifteen years old when I first started wrapping my mind around the Latin motto DISCE UT SEMPER VICTURUS, VIVE UT CRAS MORITURUS that is inscribed in marble on the plaque surmounting the door in […]

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1980-81: Living alone in the country…

April 9, 2016

“Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” – Hans Margolius (12 Sep 1902 – 29 Dec 1984) Aphorismen zur Ethik My mind was anything but quiet in the fall of 1980 once the gargantuan task of moving Samuel Weiser Inc’s publishing offices from […]

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Early 80s: loving those oak trees across the road and the full moon…

April 6, 2016

Check in tomorrow for the back-story…

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The early 80s: getting figurative again. What goes around comes around 35 years later…

March 24, 2016

“I don’t want petty self-expression. I want the elemental, infinite thing; I want to paint the rhythm of eternity.” – Rockwell Kent (21 Jun 1882 – 13 Mar 1971) The Adventures of Star-Chaser • pencil on watercolor paper 17″ x 14″ • collection of the artist Just a few days ago, while searching through my […]

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The early 80s: getting more abstract

March 16, 2016

“Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.” – Jerry Saltz (19 Feb 1951 – ) Picking up where I left off in my posting of March 3rd – The Power of Black & White. Leaving New York City: in the fall of […]

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1979/1980 The Power of Black and White

March 3, 2016

Into the Jaws of Hell • pen & ink on paper 23″ x 29″ • collection of the artist. The arts created between 1973 and 1980 that were either drawn specifically for a flyer advertising one of Harold Stover’s 2nd Presbyterian Church concert series, or were picked up from other drawings done at that time, […]

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1979-1981: Crystal Cave Reflections…

February 12, 2016

Crystal Cave Reflections #1 aka Ghost Dance #10 • liquified oil paints on mat-board 20″ x 40″ • collection of the artist The Ghost Dance series, seen in its entirety in a previous posting, was the result of two years plus – a Mars cycle – experimenting in abstraction, using liquified oil paints to create […]

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1980: The Year of Ghost Dancing

January 29, 2016

Images without words: a visual overview of the twelve paintings that comprise the Ghost Dance series.

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1979: the year of floating…

January 21, 2016

“In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying ‘what if I take it a little bit too far? and who says you have to stop there? and what’s behind the next door?’ Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get […]

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