Anatomy Class: Details

Anatomy Class: Two Figures: details.
Sculpture mix, unglazed; copper wire; twigs.

(I made these years and years ago, and I just found them on a high shelf gathering dust.  I'll post whole shots at some point, but I like focusing on the parts first.)

Happy Father's Day, Dad!

 If you had been here this morning, you just might have taken this shot.

Out On The Bay Today

Reeling

Unfocused, off-kilter, with obscured vision:

When's the last time you felt this way?

LP PG CA

Translation: Heart-home.

Garage Art: Davenport's Paragraph, Ayrton's Golden Hive, and Hilary's Bees

Guy Davenport, in his literary scholarship, is the model I should should should have found when I was wrestling with the dissertation-daemon.

This was a mere aside in the essay, but what a rich paragraph, yes?

Please seek out Guy Davenport's scholarship and his translations (not his fiction, I say), and you will be rewarded by living, breathing, sharing erudition, especially regarding Modernism in Art and Literature, the Classical/Primitive, and archetypal aspects of how literature works as well, no matter the period.

Oh, and he's just a great practical and generous-minded reader of texts.

I have that quotation--and others worthy of attention, posted on a wall in my garage.  When I am working, or working out, out there, I often reread such words, such a paragraph, with renewed enjoyment and even wonder.

Triton By My Side

Free diving off Pacific Grove: clay mask in tow.

I strapped one of my ceramic masks--Triton--to the belt for my camera pouch this time out.  I had wanted to take pictures of the mask underwater, set against a kelp holdfast or wedged in a rocky crevice beside some of those gigantic green anemones, perhaps, but the visibility was so limited, I ended up not chancing the loss of the mask this time.

The strong surge wasn't helping either.  Now, if I'd been tank diving, the conditions wouldn't have mattered so much for exploratory photography, even with the poor visibility, but I still prefer free diving and its particular challenges in such a situation.

Shore and tidepool shots only with the Triton mask: see those shots here and here.  Next time, deeper shots--or maybe I'll bring along one of my clay fish for such a photo opportunity; I've done such in tidepools, of course, as you can see here.