This is where I am: An old man dying from cancer, but still vital and bemused by the intensity of life, is walking on a dark path that runs behind an old house down the hill to the rundown apartment building he lives in. The little patch of woods is the byproduct of a geological quirk. Millenniums […]
I was at lunch with an artist today and asked him about his work. “I keep pushing ahead and it changes,” he said. I asked him to describe a creative phase that was particularly distinctive. He became animated as he talked about the challenge of adding a third dimension to his painting. “I painted a very […]
What I see clearly I pass by. What I see but do not see, I stand to witness. My heart goes wandering, pulls my soul from its slumber, pesters memories to give up their hard, wary shell and stretch out in childlike glee. All while I stand captive to what I see but do not see. Then […]