Fear is a Mind Killer

I started this when I had health care ins.  Now I don’t and the FEAR is mind killing.  I wish the jerks in our govt. would get off their high horses and think about Americans, not reelection.Fear is a Mind Killer

NYT article

On Feb. 14 Roberta Smith wrote an interesting article in the NYT.  One paragraph resonated.  “What’s missing is art that seems made by one person out of intense personal necessity, often by hand.  A lot but not all of this kind of work is painting, which seems to be becoming the art medium that dare not speak its name where museums are concerned.”

I was wondering why art was now a manufacturing medium.   Hooray for paint!Spiral

river

There’s snow in places that don’t normally get snow.   The global climate isn’t all that’s changing.  I’ve always liked the patterns of the topography when I fly.River

Tree of Life

Sorry for the shiny photo.  The panel is 80″ tall, and hard to light, so I used the flash.   The tree is progressing, roots on Earth, reaching into space.Tree of Life

Earth

I lightened the Earth and tried to make the tree hold together while still descriing the spirals.  Tree of Life

around the bend

I tried to show the painting around the side of the panel.  Actually I painted with the panel upside down today, but thru the magic of Photoshop, this image is right side up.   A painting should look as good upside down, and backwards, as seen in a mirror.  I regularly use a hand mirror.1-29-10

Edges

I should have taken this photo off axis.  I painted the edges.  I’m still considering “embellishing” the panel w/ something to emphasize the spirals.1-28-10

Paths

What if I lay the panels with spirals on the floor?  It could1-27-10 be a path.