I love living in New York because so many gorgeous people are walking around, sometimes utterly unaware of their own beauty. I got this shot on my way to poker last night, where my losses were not utterly shameful, but were still disheartening. I did manage to win what I think is the smallest pot… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: June 2010
It’s It What is It?
Poker tonight, and preparation for my trip to Chicago this weekend. Meetings in the morning tomorrow. In three months I will no longer owe my state any more back taxes. I’m beginning to apply the same concepts to my office as I am to house, because you can tighten one place but another goes slack…. Continue Reading
Letting it go…
Two new drawings this evening. When you have no chores left, you have to make art. And yesterday was , as you might have guessed, about cleaning. Now it’s down to sorting through papers, notably correspondence, piles of personal and business letters that date back to the seventies, half finished collages, fragments of writing. It’s… Continue Reading
Notes of a schvitzer…
Shower now? I suppose so. Boom, it’s New York Summer – with the New York dust and pollen on the attack. Grace Jones is telling me she just feels contempt when I cry. So part of me is transported all the way back to the early eighties before I could afford air conditioning, and drank… Continue Reading
Two things I know are true…
“If you have an idea, play half of it” – Hoagy Carmichael “If you think you’ve gone too far, you’re half way there.” – Me Tags: making art, musings… Continue Reading
Things I’m contemplating
Summer trips and how much I need them: I’ll be teaching briefly in Chicago, and hitting a few other events over the next couple of months. Lehigh’s new ideas about scheduling: evidently it’s silly for me to sleep one minute past 6am, and so she needs to be on the bed at that time jumping… Continue Reading
I’m on the floor…
I’m an old, fat man who goes to events at galleries and can’t stand standing up through the whole presentation so he sits on the floor. I’m told that honesty is best policy. Sitting on the floor didn’t make the talk between curator Maura Reilly and artist Ghada Amer any less interesting. Quite the opposite…. Continue Reading
Five already?
You stay away from the office long enough and when you return, it’s like a whirlwind strikes: so much to take care of! And the computer is both the source of work and befuddlement. You get things done on it, but it also offers distraction after distraction. I feel like I’m batting around .500 in… Continue Reading
Happy Birthday
To Dominic Vine, who has embarked on the adventure of home making. Love you, bud. Tags: birthday, friends… Continue Reading