I was always fascinated by the work of the master photographers who worked in the 1930s forward, but I was very a very shy person. I came upon the scene below in February of 1991. I couldn’t resist. I used a tripod and a camera with a very short lens, so the lady in the picture did not […]
I do believe that a self portrait, in addition to being a representation of one’s likeness, contains a visual narrative about one’s relationship with one’s self. It is a time capsule that says captures the person’s identity. As with family snapshots, it is worthwhile now and then to revisit one’s self portraits. Below is a favorite of mine. […]
What is a portrait? A short definition given me by my computer: A painting, drawing, engraving or photograph of a person; a representation or impression of someone in language or film. Fair enough, as far as it goes. A photograph is not only a representation of the person photographed, but a representation of the relationship […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I did a bit of sketching prior to painting today’s study. I have been obsessed with the passage of time, time lines, the color yellow and shapes lately. My sketch consisted “time’s arrow” between two flat planes. The far plane reflects the yellow time line in a faint purple hue. The blue pane […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: I was in London in 1988. Even then I photographed everything and anything that caught my eye. I did not make a note of where I was when I snapped the picture below. I call it graffiti, but as you can see, there is very little ‘tagging’ as we call it in […]
Today’s watercolor experiment: Have you ever woken up with a feeling you can’t identify? That happened to me this morning. I sat down with a blank piece of watercolor paper and started to think. I started with a flat brush and drew a streak with gamboge, a yellow pigment. All my first strokes are curved. […]
I started my blog at the eleventh hour tonight because of my quest today. In many regions of the country, actually mainly in the western states, Christmas day is spent stalking the Christmas Stegosaurus. It is an elusive creature which has mainly been seen only in skeletal form, encased in rock. However, like Bigfoot, many […]
Cleaning I haven’t been to the dentist in a while. It is such an embarrassment. The longer I don’t go, the more embarrassing it is. Dentists are very nice about it, at least the ones I’ve been to see over the decades. When I was I kid I never had novocaine. I’ve walked away from […]
I have posted daily watercolor experiments for quite a while now. Sometimes I get inspiration from a previous post. It becomes fodder for my next blog entry. However, I feel a bit lost today. Writing For more than a week, I have been writing in a disciplined manner: no less than 15 minute sessions, at […]
Blog mission revisited My original mission was to blog about my relationship with my older autistic brother as well as neuroscience, philosophy, medical ethics and mental health treatment history. During the first 11 months of this blog (starting in January 2013), I recapped my efforts to understand Mike over the years. After the visit to […]
