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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Body Electric: Walt Whitman

Friday, September 25, 2009

Walt Whitman was born into the working class, and had to toil and struggle throughout his life.  During the dark and bloody years of the American Civil War he served as a nurse to wounded soldiers.  His poetry and his political activities got him fired from jobs on several occasions.  In spite of it all, [...]

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Pregnant Pose

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Claudia Citkovitz is a Staten Island based acupuncturist with a specialty in childbirth and delivery.  Recently she arranged for me to make some sketches that she may use in promotional or educational materials.  One of Claudia’s friends and clients posed for the drawings above and below.  These two are a kind of yin and yang [...]

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9/11: Signs in the Aftermath

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

For those of us who lived in New York City, the 11th of September, 2001 was a day of shock and loss, but the years following that day have been a slow-motion tragedy of squandered opportunities and betrayed values.  Here’s the story of the first five years following the attacks, told through pictures of signs [...]

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Personal Painting

Saturday, September 5, 2009

Back in July I posted some of the body painting with woad, or indigo, that I did that month at the Sirius Rising festival at Brushwood Folklore Center in Sherman, New York.  This post will feature selections of my work with regular cosmetic body paints from this year’s festival. At Sirius Rising, and sometimes at [...]

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Why Art Doesn’t Pay

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Well of course, art pays if you’re Damien Hirst, and music plays if you’re Madonna, and acting pays if you’re Brad Pitt.  But all of the creative professions have the same system, in which a small number of stars become fabulously wealthy and famous, while the vast majority working in the field barely get by [...]

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