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Sketchbook #23: Willie Kohler

What I like about Kohler’s work is that he makes me feel the Age of Exploration (external and internal) is not over. He’s a contemporary and playful Caspar David Friedrich, a Romantic, but not corny, […]

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Sketchbook #22: Cathy Diamond

To draw the forest is to study complex relationships. Below are a few of the direct studies Diamond has made that indirectly underlie and inform her complex and dynamic paintings. This is how she describes […]

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Sketchbook #21: Joanne Carson

“You can learn a lot of things from the flowers For especially in the month of June There’s a wealth of happiness and romance All in the golden afternoon” the song the flowers sing in […]

What Meets The Eye

Der Defätist / The Defeatist

Der Defätist / The Defeatist

bam

of all recent mornings up to square a female ah’m nae a bam, libet mornside heights global center men chatting away earth observatory cold rod, circular phantom   you call it dementia village not exactly […]

Der Defätist / The Defeatist

termagant

against the laws of physics i have been talking to my “fut” o, food to foresee plasmid the french call it war the austrians cunt while all the players say: ultimate team Melaina why champions […]

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Bad Kitty

Bad Kitty

BAD KITTY AND THE TOOTHACHE

A toothache, thought Bad Kitty, is like someone else’s dog scratching at your guest-bedroom door all night. A toothache is a cold vibrating funnel sucking in the undone chores (the unanswered emails, the phone calls […]

Letters to the Editor

Parables

Parables

Parable for Our Times

  Michele and I were swimming our laps in adjoining lanes at the city pool on 25th street. When she passed me going the other way, I playfully reached under the lane divider and stroked […]