The photo below is one of many that I took one day at the Museum of Modern Art’s Sculpture Garden, in New York City in the late 1980s. At the time most of the statues were covered in plastic sheets. I believe they were draped to protect them from errant dust of the renovation in the works […]
Now and then I have trouble getting started. Usually I have a theme that I examine from every angle, one painting or drawing after another. These days, however, I am having trouble getting traction. Below is the image crept into my sleep, about my predicament.
I love the old newsstands. I used to take photos of them all the time. Here is one from 1988 on Prince Street between Broadway and Mercer in New York City.
My sketch below was transcribed from a pencil sketch. I mention this by way of explanation of the hesitation mark (or gap) one can see in the ink tracing. I suppose I don’t trust myself with indelible ink and no guide. The principle I try to emulate (at least in my pencil line drawings) was formulated […]
When I lived in New York, I carried my camera everywhere. Those were the days before cell phones, when cameras were not ubiquitous. I was always on the lookout for something unusual. Once I talked to someone who said she only looked where she was going. I had a hard time understanding that. When I […]
This was one of the first photos I took when I lived in New York. I wanted to be a street photographer and looked at a lot of photography by the greats (Brassaï, Cartier-Bresson (of The Decisive Moment), Eugene Richards, and so on). I was looking for great juxtapositions, of which there are plenty in […]
Symbols are important. The slide show that Tom Hanks gave in the beginning of The DaVinci Code provides a good summary of symbolism. Symbolic Images by Ernst Gombrich is on my reading list for a more serious treatment of symbolism throughout art history. However, my current grounding in symbolic representation falls more in line with the work of Mel […]
I was just reading about the latest image from Hubble. The light captured by the space telescope started its journey 400 million years after the Big Bang. according to astrophysicists. My photograph is also a time machine. The posters ripped from the top layers reveal those underneath, which were affixed to the wall at an earlier time. Just […]
When I saw this poster on the street in New York City in the 1990s, I thought it was hilarious. I still think it’s pretty funny… Does it fall under the category, appropriated art; highjacked art?
I went to the dentist today. Normally they don’t give me sunglasses to wear, but they said there could be some splashing. I tucked away my regular glasses and donned the wrap-around, movie star specs. I couldn’t see far, but I tried to reproduce what I did see, in today’s watercolor. There were two sets of […]
