DRAWING BRIDGES

“My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of… Continue reading →

SCENE-SAW

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.” ― Georgia O’Keeffe It’s about art, the liberating nature of it, hence… Continue reading →

DARK MONEY

“Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow” —T. S. Eliot. The drawing is an attempt to be a visual explanation of Being. From Sartre’s arcane—to me, at least—tome, Being and Nothingness… Continue reading →

SANTACO, LLC

“Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.” — Stephen Fry Please note that the creatures shown in the drawing above are not… Continue reading →

BLAH BLAH BLAH

“Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.” —Ferdinand de Saussure PART 1—The explanation of langue et parole. They… Continue reading →

ODYSSEUS IN LOVE

“Look to the helm, good master–many a shoalMarks this stern coast, and rocks, where sits the SirenWho, like ambition, lures men to their ruin.” —Walter Scott IMAGINE THE ODYSSEY as a coming of… Continue reading →

BLACK MASS

The glasses are empty, the serving tray is empty, the painted artist’s palette, too. Everything in artworld is empty. In the beginning art had a sacred function; it was used to facilitate communication… Continue reading →

SHTICKS AND CARROTS

Every other year and more so every four years, the pols turn their focus away from the donor class’s underparts and talk at the rest of us for a bit. Both left and… Continue reading →

BLUE FOOLS IN ARTWORLD

Fine art, these days, isn’t either fine or art. It’s not even cultural capital, per Pierre Bourdieu and Dyske Suematsu that’s been objectified then monetized. It is more than anything else a speculative… Continue reading →

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME COGNITIVE DISSONANCE?

Once upon a time there were some situations, in an arena/on TV, where violently aggressive behavior was encouraged and other situations, anywhere else, where it is discouraged. These situations were—or were kept—separate. The… Continue reading →