Mention Van Gogh in your blog and you automatically get a spike in your hits. Perhaps the pornos sights should consider this.

Dog Fight

February 8, 2010

The idea of a dog fight between bi-planes ona planet where the flowers grow as large as trees blows me away.

One big ball of wax

February 7, 2010

Everyone has an uncle who is the family fool. At almost every family gathering he does goofy things that make everyone laugh. None of my uncles were like that. My aunts laughed just the same.

Go lightly on the ledge

February 6, 2010

Go lightly on the ledge. Go lightly on the ground. (Dylan lyrics)  This piece reminds me of my 5th year in high school. (There were 5 years then). I was having a physical/emotional breakdown. Problem was no one noticed. Not even me. I had a dozen or so notebooks filled with poetry and drawings. I can remember experimenting with sounds so that the pages were filled with my interpretation of guitar riffs. The rest of the work were terrible impressions of dylanesque like poetry. At the end of the year when I survived, I took all those notebooks into the backyard and burnt them. While they lay there, the smoke rising into the blue sky, the pages curled up into evil smiles. And I swear they were laughing at me.

The lady looks like my grade 3 teacher. The one sleeping is me.

Soft Hands and Wild Onions

February 1, 2010

I’m going in for the nuclear stress test to check out my arteries. It stresses me out. I hate being reminded that I am temporary.

This piece was commissioned as a painting on the side of a van for a social agency that aided children. It wasn’t used. I wasn’t paid.

Sara Barnes

January 30, 2010

Check out this young artist’s work. Lovely use of colour and fabric and ideas. Sara’s work reminds me of some stuff I did for my kid’s stories.

Dad finds the dead body

January 30, 2010

There is a secret life, a hidden world that operates at the peripheral edge of our sight. With all the new gadgets like puters, ipods, tv, cell phones, we have so many distractions that we overlook this mysterious world. Maybe for the best.

Vik Munitz

January 29, 2010

Odd how I feel as if I should have known this artist before. But didn’t. God, there are so many people doing great stuff. This is a video on Munitz‘a work.

Murder in the Cathedral

January 28, 2010

I’m at a loss. I think I first saw this as the massacre of innocents amongst the flowers.