Conscious World Art

“We grow small trying to be great.” – E. Stanley Jones (1884-1973) The year is 1909: six of the seven Cole siblings have married and are creating the next generation of twenty-one first-cousins, eleven of whom, along with their parents, are clustered around grandparents Clark and Mary Cole. Back row: Weymouth Harris Cole (1879-1973), with […]

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” – Frank Herbert (1920 – ) The late ’70s were an emotional nadir in my life. I was approaching my mid-thirties, and still wondering “What’s it all about Aldi?” I understand my present reticence to revisit that period; why it has […]

“Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible.” – John Grigg (1924-2001) According to my somewhat haphazard records, in August of 1976 I painted the mandala pictured at left, prompted by a comment earlier that summer from Jim Wasserman, Samuel Weiser’s office manager, who had discovered an illustration in an astrology book […]

“High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.” – Tryon Edwards (1809-1894) Today, a small, very belated tribute to one of my second cousins, a true luminary of my generation – Marvin Bert Dow (1930-1998) whom I met only once in the early 80s, when he was battling ALS – Lou […]

The Plastic Club 247 Camac Street Philadelphia PA Saturday June 6 7:00 – 11:00 pm Opening Party for the Workshop Show. This is the annual show of artwork by attendees at the Plastic Club’s many workshops. Entries must have been done at a workshop, or derived from work done there. Both of mine were completed […]

“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” – Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) “When far away – think – think of this friend who will ne’er forget thee.” – S.G.G. • “after sunset 8 o’clock” in the upper left corner, dated “June 28, 1834″ in the upper right. I was given […]

“No matter where you go, there you are.” – The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) 1976 brought momentous personal changes in its wake. Shortly after New Year, I arrived back in NYC after a two-week sojourn of California dreaming. So seduced was I by the glamour of San Francisco, that I […]