DYSEMPATHY

“People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint“ about them not understanding me.” —Søren Kierkegaard Yes, I know that dysempathy is not a word, but antipathy, apathy, acedia, or… Continue reading →

AMERICAN TRIPTYCH

VISIONS OF HEAVEN AND HELL ON EARTH, lost, remembered, and given up on. But I’m not sure what they all mean, not being religious. Sometimes the pictures explain themselves and I just write… Continue reading →

ACTIVE LAZINESS

A modern psychomachia or a post-moderm repressive-desublimation The image above (post-career painting #21) looks like a Goya “black painting.” He painted 14 or 15 saturnine murals for himself alone when he was over… Continue reading →

KAFKA WAS RIGHT

“‘What’s happened to me,’ he thought. It was no dream.” —Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis Gregor Samsa says this of his novel dehumanization; that it was no dream, it was the plotting of the… Continue reading →

WAKE ME WHEN

Waiting for nothing in particular, just waiting for something not the way it is—something better obviously—a positive comment on a post (got that, thanks), an email not asking for money, a phone call… Continue reading →

Etiam Hic

I am still here. This is a rare, I hope, non-art posting. I have been working on a drawing for the last month. It’s 95% done, but the text is still troubling me.… Continue reading →