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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.” —J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix)… Continue reading →

OTHERED

WE CAN EASILY NAME many bad-guy otherers, but even the good guys (I mean our guys) who took them out were guilty of othering. And their heirs: Our politicians, of course, but as… Continue reading →

FUTILE JETSAM

But all my words come back to me in shades of mediocrity like emptiness in harmony” —Paul Simon THIS MIDDLING EFFORT IN ACRYLIC was inspired by both Francisco Goya and William Hogarth. My… Continue reading →

QUID PRO FAUX

FIRST OF ALL, this is another digital drawing. Yes, it’s because I am saving my art supplies until the local store reopens. But it’s still a regression as the paintings were, but not… Continue reading →

THE FIELD OF SCHEMES

“I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by… 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 →

STATUES OF LIMITATION

The creatures in bags metaphor comes from Francisco Goya’s print “los ensacados” one of a series of etchings he called “Los Disparates” (The follies) done about the same time he was painting his… Continue reading →