rinpa
Designing Nature, The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art Trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art today. It is open on Monday holidays, so it seemed like a good time to go. The exhibit I...
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burning bush
Decomposition and recomposition of a photo of a burning bush. First layer – extraction of brightly colored leaves. It is an exclusion layer, which usually results in a blue-green, but didn’t in this case....
an art of words and sugar
The problem here for Republicans is not policy but delicacy — speaking about culturally sensitive and philosophically complex issues with reflection and prudence. Charles Krauthammer, “The Way Forward,” Washington Post, November 8, 2012 I...
dduplicate tulip 2
Another crop of this image. I was attracted by the blue realistic looking leaf shape in the center, which was shunted off to the lower right in the previous crop. I like the textural...
impression
Driving home in snow yesterday. Not yet dark, but less visibility than dark in the pervasive whiteness. Full bluster, gusts of wind made snow-visible and alarming to motorists high on the Tappan Zee superstructure...
the left wing of darkness
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. ~~Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness, page 52 I’m not a novel reader anymore, but cleaning...
oxygen well sucked
Thanks, OWS, for sucking the oxygen out of Federal electoral politics. For me at least – plenty of flame fanning going on all around me…. * My election day poem From Poems for Last...