October 2018 – Talking Pictures

Bleached Black Balloon

October 27, 2018

October, 18 … switches are red … witches are green when lear went lear came as software ear for june switch game no owl, no cat, no piglet’s soft nep, just a trap when noose came as news went on the 18 th two scanners [...]

Parable #14: While Driving Upstate

October 17, 2018

Michele said, “You can’t see me right now but I’m rolling my eyes. “ —Adam [...]

Rackstraw Downes: A Peek Behind the Curtain and Perspective (almost) without Orthogonal Lines

October 16, 2018

So, a raw sienna underpainting, possibly with a touch of burnt umber ? —scrubbed or is it scumbled onto the canvas, a grid of pencil lines—unfinished? A study or was it just so beautiful as is that Downes decided to leave it and show it—with [...]

Chapter 9: Bad Kitty in the Dark

October 16, 2018

Bad Kitty was annoyed enough to get out of her hammock — her detested neighbor, a thug who ran the marina, had had the nerve to walk on to the pier again. He had been told he no longer had any authority over the pier and to leave the [...]

Sketchbooks Number 2: Susanna Heller

October 11, 2018

I lived in Williamsburg for twenty years and every single time I walked or rode my bike on the Williamsburg Bridge I would meet this beanpole of a woman with big eyes and a wild mop of curly red hair striding across it with her sketchbook. [...]