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Dancing Brush

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Drawing with ink and brush has a fluidity that captures the energy of motion.  The brush is sensitive to the slightest variations in pressure, rendering lines that have varying weight and dimension.  I have long favored this medium for movement drawing, where there is no time to develop the image through shading, color and details.  [...]

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Cross Pollination at Green Space

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Before going into the subject of this post, I will mention that this Saturday I will be exhibiting artwork and performing at “Summer Magic”, the fifth-anniversary fundraiser event for CRS, an important supporter of butoh dance, movement theater and healing arts in New York.  Info here.
Choreographer Valerie Green’s lovely Green Space Studio in Long [...]

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A Useless Tree

Sunday, April 26, 2009

“Tzu-ch’i of Nan-po was wandering around the Hill of Shang when he saw a huge tree there, different from all the rest.  A thousand teams of horses could have taken shelter under it and its shade would have covered them all.  Tzu-ch’i said, “What tree is this?  It must certainly have some extraordinary usefulness!”  But, [...]

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Visual Cacophony

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

New York City is like the rainforest, dense with competing and coexisting lifeforms.  When I moved here in the 1980’s, the most striking aspect of the city was the level of anarchy and disorder that prevailed, both in the people and in the physical environment.  It was frightening but also exciting to me.  It said [...]

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13 Ways: Wallace Stevens

Saturday, March 21, 2009

In 1982 I had graduated from college with a filmmaking degree and had just gotten married, but I was really still looking for myself.  That year I had one of my early bursts of artistic effort, directed at painting.  I made this series illustrating Wallace Stevens’ popular bit of American Zen, “Thirteen Ways of Looking [...]

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