Since I’ve left college, I’ve been thinking about the proposition of when it’s appropriate to stop by unannounced to people you know and people you do not know that well. The epiphany came recently–now that I own a house. There has been a hole in my life since leaving college. I’m happily married, but I [...]
Currently, my recent work is displayed close to home for all my Kentucky friends and fans. During the season of Lent (February 25, 2009 through April 6, 2009) the series Action Unification and the mini series, Morning Promise, will be on display at the Asbury Theological Seminary in the gallery and in the foyer of [...]
I am posting three new eggshell paintings in series, Morning Promise. Although the majority of the painting was done last fall I have recently added the final layers to three new eggshell paintings. These paintings are similar to the eggshell painting that was posted in November. They create a mini series where I investigated the [...]
While wondering through Het Rembrandthuis Museum, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last autumn, a painting caught my eye. The walls of the Rembrandt House were covered with paintings salon style, and although it was hard for the eye to isolate any image, this particular painting caught my attention and held it. The painting, The Last Supper, [...]
While in The Hague, Netherlands last autumn, I took a few hours to look into the Escher Museum (Escher in het Paleis or Escher in the Palace). In the past I have not regarded M.C. Escher too highly, consequently I was surprised at how much I enjoyed seeing the work. I discovered how the following [...]
This past fall I had the opportunity to see several early Piet Mondrian paintings in the Gemente Museum (Den Haag, The Netherlands). Although he is most famous for his later simplified Neoplastic art such as Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red, 1937-42, I prefer his earlier works that have a concrete subject and yet contain [...]
Images, photographs, visual advertisements, logos, and even “fine art”. We are bombarded with pieces of visual communication. In each image, there is a message. However, there are so many images that we become numb to them. We soak up the message without either realizing it or taking the time to diagnose [...]
Much of the popular music that I listen to is art. It may show a perspective often foreign to me: abuse, a yearning to seduce a girlfriend, romantic jealousy, or some sort of conflict. Most art and literature has conflict and thus it is easy to see how popular art has conflict. Recently, I’ve began [...]
“The night sky is an infinite viola and the milky way is a bow and the universe is a carousel of flowing manes and fiery eyes”
The above is from this delightful and mentally delicious nugget commenting on this Christmas season from Over The Rhine. Over the Rhine is a wonderful wife and husband band that [...]
Back in May, I posted on blogging organization and design. Since then, I have set up Cultured Media and the poetry knook although the visual design of both and of Rachel and Stephen has not begun. Adding Cultured Media has made the focus more narrow, eventually Cultured Media will contain book and music reviews.
But where [...]