Parable #16: Question
My pool game was off. I had lost three of the last four matches. Anders said, “Do you think it might be the way you’re relating to the material?” —Adam [...]
June 2019
morn straits
in the wee hours of bird song a twinkle, a blink the black slate of transliteration runs across the orange rising of winging baby pheasants breaking the dips of vite … vite phasis daybreak at Colchis; important that they aren’t [...]
Bel Fullana and the Rape of Isla Bonita
Does All inclusive look like a display of “playful sexual freedom” to you? This painting and the other two paintings in this essay are described that way in the gallery press release, which also employs forms of the words “ambiguity” and [...]
Happy Father’s Day from Talking Pictures! “Suffering” (2010)—a film by Keith Sanborn
There is no catch and release in this beautifully spare “instructional video.” Life, Death, Danger, Love and an Existential Question—or two—captured in a single take. [...]
Bellinger Battles Elemental Forces, Sfraga Furthers Evolution
The two predominant modes of categorizing paintings are describing them as abstract or figurative, and pronouncing them to be more “realistic” if closer to a photographic image. Neither is of any use in considering Len Bellinger’s work (or [...]
