Showing posts with label 50. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 50. Show all posts
Friday, January 4, 2013

Mateo: Three Faces (Naked, Hoplite, Diver)

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Mateo in Morning Light. As with living humans, that light can show nakedly the signs and emblems of age. I think I did a fair job o...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Flow Factor: Surface and Depth

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Note the warbles at the edge of the still--pausing--surface waters here.  Note also the surge showing in the disturbed water in the for...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

"There Is A Tide In The Affairs of Women . . ."

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Or, "But Actium, Lost For Cleopatra's Eyes" --Byron's opening to Canto VI of Don Juan: 'There is a tide in the...
Friday, February 24, 2012

The Blog as Book(s)

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This is a vanity production, not a commercial one. Still, I like having the book-versions. Easier for me to get a sense of the whole, frankl...
Monday, February 20, 2012

Waterscape

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Monastery Beach: three views. I'd meant to hit the water either south by Monterey or north by Mendocino this long weekend, but no luck. ...
Monday, January 9, 2012

First Free Dive of 2012

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Or, So This Is What I Look Like? My mask straps need adjusting, and I think I'm about to dive. Hence, the sort of hovering there. Or, ...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Mere Mortal

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That's my favorite self-portrait of the year: free diving off Salt Point State Park in Sonoma County, CA. This dive was an early August...
Saturday, December 17, 2011

Portrait of the Artist as a Gemini

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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Alter Ego and Friends: Poetry and Clay

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ALTER EGO The boy from Uplyme with his smile Who stands on cliff-tops staring down: One stares as well. The sea is barren. And the beach. ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Midstream

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Self-portrait #50.
Monday, July 25, 2011

Kiln-Ready: Mateo

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Mateo is headed into the kiln this Wednesday. I can count at least fifty flaws, but I'm going to bake him, if nothing else than as a gl...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Alter Ego

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Once "Mateo" dries, I can put him into the kiln. After bisquing, I'll have to make decisions about glazing. Not sure which v...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Sea Monkey See

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Sea monkey do. I'll admit freely that as I've approached fifty, and now turned fifty, I've been taking more self-portraits, tryi...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

"Mateo" Is Taking Shape

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"Self-Portrait in Clay" class at the ASUC Art Studio. I see about twelve flaws, without trying, so I'll look away for now. To...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Fifty Grains of Salt and Two Waves

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My birthday: June 19th, 2011: my fiftieth, which I find hard to believe and which I am honoring. In my head, over and over: What kid ever...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

My Father's Fiftieth: The Belly Dancer

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For his fiftieth birthday, my mother dispatched a belly dancer to crash the police officers' conference that my father was chairing. I ...