Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source. Leo Tolstoy A Russian chapel, photographed […]
Sky and sea are opal grey. Martin is stretched on the deck in the bow of the boat with an unopened book beside him. He has never been so happy in his life. The future is nothing to him, the past is nothing to him. All his life is effaced in the grey languor of the […]
After Making Love, We Hear Footsteps For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman and Fergus will only sink deeper into his dreamless sleep, which goes by all in one flash, but let there be that heavy breathing or a stifled come-cry anywhere […]
Having a Coke with You BY Frank O’Hara is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian partly because of my love for you, partly […]
That’s my 12-year old son. I’m sitting in the leather chair playing around with a drawing program on the iPad. “What are you doing?” “Drawing.” “You can’t draw.” “Anyone can draw.” “No they can’t.” “Stay still.” A couple of seconds. He watches me. He’s curious, a little skeptical, and knows that I’m unpredictable enough to draw an orange circle that I’ll […]
Worldly success has been elusive as has been support where I live and work which makes me think I have misused my gifts. Easily refuted by reason and not a very exclusive club either. There’s going to be an end, a time when the lights go off, the vapor of life expires. Then the brushes […]
Pond in summer, taken with iPhone4, retouched with photogene I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as […]
When I take a photograph, I’m looking for the light. Then, as I retouch it, I’m looking for the impression. What I want to accomplish is to recreate the sensation when we look at something quickly and are left with equal parts distinct and indistinct perception. The melding of the two states creates an impression […]
In my imagination, I am hanging this canvas when I feel a frost on my cheek and the lining of my lungs ices over. I am drawn headfirst into the inky blue light of the river. The crisp snow abrades my raw hands. The bark of the tree fall scratches on my shirt. The cold […]
Come back with me through the generations, but don’t leave yourself behind. Shed the trappings of our age, the distractions, the objects, the munificence. Keep me in mind, your friends, the acquaintances you take lunch with, the people who you stand in line at the grocery store with. Keep us all in mind. Let your […]