Parking Lot Square
This image is enlargement of another portion of the picture from which I an extracted ‘Parking Lot Impasto‘. I like it better for the cracks that show the asphalt underneath.
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Hands with Sketched Face
Mike* has very expressive hands. I have posted sketches of them before (Resting Hands Revisited, Playing Hands, About to Hold Hands, Hands Full). Years ago another resident of his group home hurt him. It is hard to blame the other guy. Mike can be very annoying. He used to steal food from the plates of […]
Duet
This study began with five parallel lines upon which music could be written. The lines continued, but lost their parallel order with two lines escaping their nature as potential recipients of musical notes. I took the outstretched, five-fingered hand from a photograph of someone expressing exasperation. I took the other hand (thumb and forefinger) from […]
Parking Lot Impasto
This image is an enlargement of a portion of one of my parking lot line photographs. The paint is lumpy here, just like in some abstract expressionist paintings.
Texture Study
I am attracted to street photography (photography of streets and parking lots) in part, because they usually display quite a variety of textures. It is a relatively simple matter to snap a photo of the street, and rather more taxing to reproduce the texture with one’s own hands. Being a person who likes creating by […]
Corner of ‘Look’ and ‘Don’t Look’
I am one of the vanishing breed who still remembers the ‘Walk’ and ‘Don’t Walk’ signs that used to populate the corners in NYC. I understand the logos that replaced the words on these signs have also undergone evolutionary change since the ones I knew when I lived there. I encountered an equivalent, yet modern […]
Hands Abstracted
I’ve taken countless photographs of hands over the years. Many of them have been of my family. I caught some of my older brother Mike‘s* gestures on film; my younger brother Dave‘s hands on the piano; my father conducting imaginary orchestras and my mother holding Mike when he was young. These images are a treasure […]
Down-the-Stairs Icon
I saw this icon when I was at the hospital the other day. It was on some kind of vinyl material, covering a little nook in the hallway. Presumably, the emergency equipment was behind this curtain. This icon clearly summarizes the use of the going-down-the-stairs equipment. It’s quite good, in fact. I hope that the […]
Parking Lot Photography
The grey, backwards ‘7’, in this segment of parking lot lines appears to be a correction, a connection between the discontinuous white lines. Irrespective of the line colors, I like the design: the wide lines as well as the space between. The red curve and dark grey shadows from the trees above add interest to […]
Five Hands
My brother Dave is an accomplished pianist. He is also deeply interested in music and its inner workings. He explained that some piano music, even though played with two hands, can have three melodies at the same time. When he played an example, I had a difficult time identifying all the themes. My study below […]
