My wife, Joy, and I are currently staying at her cousin’s house. I may have mentioned the other day that the house , Joy and her cousins have a long history together. I find myself sketching and painting in the back yard every day. There are wonderful rocks and iron lanterns in what is left of […]
I have been thinking about the little doodles I’ve been drawing during the past few weeks. They are not terribly satisfying. Don’t get me wrong, it is a challenge to have an idea and conjure up some way to express it visually. However, it is like coming up with one-liners. I’m pretty good with puns and […]
It must have been in 5th grade when we all had to get our eyes checked. All I remember is standing in the middle of this darkened room in the basement and some man I couldn’t see asked me to read letters in this bright spot on the wall. There must have been something in my […]
The past number of posts have concentrated on portraying emotions associated with frustration and pain. I used photographs that I took of my older brother from the years spent trying to get to know him. Mike is very low functioning, autistic and nonverbal. I was never successful in communicating with him. Perhaps it was on […]
I’ve been working on a couple of watercolors. The one below is a combination pen and ink and watercolor. I guess that makes it a mixed media work. At any rate, I don’t really know if it is abstract or not. It is definitely nonrepresentational – of the visible world. Using my icons I chose […]
No, I don’t mean A Little Thought Experiment, as in “eine kleine gedanken experiment”. I mean, I gave this watercolor experiment very little thought. I started looking up references concerning Paul Klee’s iconography, with plans to research similar traits of Joan Miró, but threw up my hands. Too much research, too little time to write a blog. […]
Book Preview Before I begin, let me tell you about a book that I am just starting. It is relevant to many aspects of my blog including neuroscience, consciousness, and art. The book is The Age of Insight, The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain, by Nobel Laureate, Eric Kandel. I peeked at […]
I may have been thinking too much lately. Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while know that I have been trying to find a visual way to express my ideas and feelings. When I began my blog, my mission was to talk about autism from a brother’s point of view, […]
Brief background The study of dreaming is a big field of scientific endeavor. Although this topic is very interesting, I do not wish to rehash all the theories in this post. Let me mention four different views of dreaming: Freud thought that dreaming was a way to access that which our consciousness hides from us; […]
I’m going to need some help here. Here’s the set up: The only kind of painting that I have done in recent memory is watercolor. I am a real neophyte at it. Concurrently, I am reading about Cézanne, who worked with great effort and emphasis on composing his paintings, eliminating details that did not speak […]
