Great Exudations – Page 43 – Semi-random musings, poems, and visual images from the journey

“Just because…”

“Hot Wax Museum”

At a vintage store in Hampden neighborhood of Baltimore

“You’re Looking Up, 20!”

20 S Charles St. in Baltimore, MD one fine and sunny day. We became friends on my walks to and from work.

Potent Quotables:

“All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.”
federico fellini

Fellini’s “8-1/2” (1963), starring Marcello Mastroianni, is about a middle-aged film director who is creatively, and spiritually, stuck.

“Art Vandaleaux”

The scene outside Cranes (excellent) restaurant in Washington, DC one Sunday morning (July 2022). Maybe the cultural measure of a city is whether their vandals can destroy and simultaneously create an art installation.

“Neon Non-Deion (Self Portrait #3)”

“Oh, Baltimore…”

Walked down by the Karma Police, perhaps. Trauma patient with hemopneumothorax requiring chest tube, as well as a right scapular fracture and lung contusion.

Overheard just before the injury: “Omar…..”

“Running with the Bull”

“Looking Up”

City Center in Washington, DC from May 2021

“The Flat”

Pennsylvania Ave in Washington, DC from Nov 2020