Archive for August 2020
LA Orange Delight
I took this picture in downtown LA between the second and third mile of my late afternoon walk. I saw this woman with bright orange hair as I turned the corner from Seventh to Spring. Her stance was just right, as if I’d posed her. What stood out to me was her amazing hair and…
Read MoreViral Vision
For those of us who like to plan ahead, the corona-world has been a brute. Since last February, when this super-flu mushroomed into a pandemic, the future has been hazy. Sooner or later, it will come clear, but what will our lives look like then? They may be like they were before, or not. We…
Read MoreEscape to Marthas Vineyard
Summer with hot sunny days, late sunsets and the harvest from the local farms is in full splendor. Social distancing is easier to do as people can spend more time outside exploring the world around them while minimizing the danger to each other. Getting on a plane, ferry or train or a car full of…
Read MoreEnvisioning Our Isolation
Since the beginning of the year, I have been making a series of paintings that explore plays of light and shadow in empty spaces. Although it was completely intuitive, and a logical extension of some previous work, I feel the paintings evoke the poignancy of our forced solitary existence and the loneliness we all feel…
Read MoreREIMAGED
A chance encounter with a damaged art catalog precipitated a collage project that collided with the pandemic. Early in the year, I found an art catalog on the “free” cart outside the entrance to the Encinitas, California, public library. After perusing it, I realized that it was missing pages, but while browsing, I had a…
Read MoreSigns of the Times, Collages 4 and 5
I think the most common printed words these days are :1 “No” 2 “Don’t” 3 “Must” and 4 “ Only.” Amazing how they words range from being taken as life-saving/pandemic-curbing public health directives to challenges of our right to do whatever we want whenever we want, no matter what the outcome for others. Here are…
Read MoreConnecting Universes
It’s July 2020. The world is in lockdown. Everything has changed. There is nowhere to escape, except maybe in science fiction, which is where I found a way to connect our present experience to other realities. In “The Wormhole Project” I explore the idea of connecting two universes within myself. One universe is more colorful…
Read MoreSurprise!
I never know what or who I’ll encounter as I travel about Cambridge with my camera bag hanging from my shoulder. Some days, Il just plant myself on a corner and see what transpires. Other days, I’m on the move and on the lookout for poignant moments and store signage that conveys the tenor of…
Read MoreThe Virtual Grandmother
Just you wait, said my friends. Wait until your older kids have kids. You will adore being a grandmother! It’s one of the best times of your life. Well, it isn’t, it’s not even close. But the reason why has nothing to do with the hardy, round-eyed and utterly engaging little guy born to my…
Read MoreThere Goes the Neighborhood
I began “Twilight Flight” before the pandemic. It was only the evening sky with a dark wedge across the middle. It sat in my studio for months. On paper, I sketched a scene with several houses, a road and oversized trees on a chunk of land floating away. When the lockdown came, I painted my…
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