Nature's first form

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold. -Robert Frost

Nature is ever at work, building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another. -John Muir

You paint the way you have to in order to give.  That's life itself, and someone will look and say it is the product of knowing, but it has nothing to do with knowing, it has to do with giving.  -Franz Kline

collage from 2011

Some older collage work from April 2011...I very seldom go back and look at these but I was just loading these in lightroom and they amused me for some reason...

satellite of love

Satellites gone up to the sky. Things like that drive me out of my mind.

I watched it for a little while I love to watch things on t.v.

Satillites gone way up to Mars.  Soon it will be filled with parking cars.  

I watched it for a little bit.  I love to watch things on t.v.

Ooh ah Satellite of love
Satellite of love
Satellite Satillite of love
satellite

oldboy

I was foolin around trying out the computer to see how to upload/download that sort a thing and I ended up with a few of these old pictures.

test

These are a few of the countless dryer lint paintings I did at the time.  I'll put up some new ones later on.  Actually I think they haven't really changed much since then. That's okay.  Though I really enjoyed doing more pencil work then and now there's a bunch less.

alchemy

Many voices, even from within their own ranks, were raised against the "obscure idioms" of the alchemists.  And their own account of their communication technique hardly sounds more encouraging..."Wherever we have spoken openly we have actually said nothing. But where we have written something in code and in pictures we have concealed the truth." -Rosarium Philosophorum, Weinheim Edition, 1990

Everything that deceives can be said to enchant. -Plato

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. -Colette

It was in the very act of communicating with others that I came into a more intimate contact with myself. -Anias Nin

Sometimes I do fake Picassos myself. -Picasso

The thing is to become a master, and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing. -Henry Miller

Oh my God. Something happened.  Lower the curtain.  last words of Chung Ling Soo