/ ling, february 2009 syracuse ny

/ lots of my work went up on the gallery stock website today!

/ still from 'vivre sa vie' of a frame from 'the passion of joan of arc'

an old woman passes me carefully.

all my grandmothers live alone

contentedly. they miss their men,

but not in bed, not in the kitchen,

not deep in their work. if i outlive you

will i want nothing? winter always provides

a next thing to do: hurry home.

get warm. i turn my hands in steam

from the coffee. the perfect cold

without snow has undone a layer

of good farmland. how can we breathe

this air made visible by rising dust?

/ 'learning the elements' from the book salt air by sharon bryan

/ portrait of the artist as your friend, a self-portrait in brooklyn ny october 2011

/ georgia o'keeffe by alfred stieglitz

'she had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.' -- quote from mrs. dalloway by virginia woolf

/ self portrait with taxi, manhattan ny february 2012

'ultimately, it doesn't matter why magic works, because magic does work; it works with remarkable ease. which brings me to another point: magic is in itself very, very easy. it simply consists of doing what the human brain does every day, that is perceive and manipulate symbols. magic is only difficult because it requires us to perceive and manipulate symbols that most people don't even admit exist. being a mage has much more to do with being a competent human being than it has to do with mastering magic. more accurately, there is more magic in being a competent human being than in warping the fundamental, symbolic nature of reality.'

/ quote from 'postmodern magic: the art of magic in the information age' by patrick dunn

'the dark thought, the shame, the malice,

meet them at the door laughing,

and invite them in.

be grateful for whoever comes,

because each has been sent

as a guide from beyond.'

/ rumi

/ the church i went to as a child, holy trinity webster ny

term of the day:

SERVOMECHANISM -- sometimes shortened to servo, is an automatic device that uses error-sensing negative feedback to correct the performance of a mechanism.

/ working on audio transfers of field recordings of irish gypsies telling folktales in the 1960s today at work and noticed the recorder had servo control. sounded pretty fucking rad as a concept, so i did some research on it

Bruce Nauman ‘Failing to Levitate in the Studio’, 1966

i haven't posted here in a month in lieu of some internal reflecting rather than external outpouring. it is necessary at times to turn all the way in in order to see out again more clearly.

hope you've been well there :)

/ the reference + the inspiration, stills from 'en passion' by ingmar bergman 1969

// good news!

feeling inspired again

feeling happy

feeling free

nearly done with editing recent projects

on to layout phase of book project i'm working on

in preliminary stages of new projects

/ recent inspirations from internets

/ but you can be whoever you want baby.. we can all be whoever we want

mid-2010/ brooklyn ny

/ felt inspired to make this this morning

/ i am in love with edvard munch's genius works

'we do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the mental institution of the universe.'

/ johann wolfgang von goethe, german writer artist & philosopher

/ from alfred hitchcock's rebecca 1940

/ brett dougherty, artist brooklyn ny october 2011

/ new work approaching

self portrait brooklyn ny september 2011

/ stills from autumn sonata, ingmar bergman 1978

'the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not... '

/ thomas carlyle, scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian & teacher during the victorian era