new views

hats off to the UMMA addition

for making us pause in its cracks

and look back

R O A D M A P

three friends share a flan

VALUE

I know the term is complex, down deep.

But to me this is value.

Roadhouse side of greens (collards) $3.50

now on its third meal.

A few still linger in the fridge.

A four for?

follow your nose

You hear it all the time: folks who teach drawing teach people to see.
I’m afraid that expression has come to work on me in the same way a breed of yoga teachers say, feel the flow.
I just don’t.

I do see, thankfully, and so far of all my students do as well.
Metaphors are seductive, but clarity sparkles.
So, see what?
What is possible, what is in front of us, how things relate or don’t?

Hacking my way to specificity, this is my new goal.

daily frames of pomona

Frameworks and I have a taunting sort of relationship.

We think we need one another, but

we are not sure.

For now, the windows of my house

offer a respite from the questioning.

Does framing lead to a framework?

office window

eight inches and melting before

ground trades with figure.

did he see a shadow?

Triangulated when Wet

I still use my first digital camera, the Nikon 990,

but the handidandiness of my iphanny4

makes it only occasional.

I miss its rotating body,

lens swinging separately from screen.

I miss that sense of a world opening up,

like it gave me when I first discovered its macro capacities.

But I stray. Isaac, my dog and long captive subject, lured me off track.

His fur is the point, though, in recalling what Vince told me the

sculptor George Demetrios (20^th century Gloucester, MA Sculptor)

said about organizing hair on a head, or body.

"Think about how it groups itself in forms of triangles, hair

connecting and resolving in a shape, which for the most part is pointed."

barton dam

rituals of bird hills walk

barton pond frozen

chasing a figure