“The Ever-Changing Stain”

Things change. I don’t know why they wouldn’t. It happens all around us. Constantly. Taking place within us and on our very skin. Cells slowly slough. New ones arise, we hope anyway. Memories are lost — perhaps later reclaimed, but even then somehow modified. No two days are the same. The weather. The stock exchange.Continue reading ““The Ever-Changing Stain””

“These are a few of my favorite things…”

“Ketel’s the One” They say the spirit’s in the music And the music’s in the man When I’m chillin’, I like Dylan Or else jazz, but not Chopin They say the proof is in the pudding And the truth is on the tongue As for food, I take it spicy In my martinis, Ketel OneContinue reading ““These are a few of my favorite things…””

“Confrontational Art”

MoMA Gallery Label (from website): “In 1954, the Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb—the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States—was tested at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. That year, Baskin, who often explored the effects of mortality and destruction on the human form in his sculptures and works on paper, produced aContinue reading ““Confrontational Art””