Continue Reading When Hope is Hard. Kintsugi: The Restorative Art of Naoko Fukumaru at Portland Japanese Garden From: Kawaranai Sora: Nakinagara Warainagara (The Sky Unchanged: Tears and Smiles) Fall has arrived at Portland Japanese Garden. Yellowing leaves and needles…
Continue Reading Der Erlkönig Beyond the Treeline One of the most amazing pieces of music from the romantic period is a song written by Franz Schubert ((1797-1828), The Erl-King…
Continue Reading How to make women not vote again. *** This Floridian communication came in close to midnight at the start of the weekend. Stepford Wives? Handmaids’ Tales? Happy lives? Not if the…
Continue Reading Art on the Road: A Crossover of Art and Nature. Pacific Threshold: Sandgren & Sandgren- Painting the Oregon Coast with Friends 1978-2023 Merriam-Webster: Threshold, noun Just my luck. The randomly picked day for a visit to the Giustina Gallery at Oregon State University in Corvallis…
Continue Reading New York Adjacent. Sometimes you wonder – prominent art website announces fall line up for “art adjacent” events in NYC. What is mentioned? Dance at the…
Continue Reading In the Interesting People Department … When the Frost is on the Punkin Since I photograph and write about what I see and what I think three times a week, year after year (eight years,…
Continue Reading Cat Propaganda. Two days ago I mentioned that I would write about the spread of falsehoods regarding the consumption of stolen pets by…
Continue Reading Killer instincts Nope, not talking about the absurd claims that Haitians are feasting on neighbors’ cats and dogs. That will be discussed in the…
Continue Reading Versions of Light on Water. Using mundane, found objects as canvases for painting seems to be a trend right now. Some do it better than others, among…
