Sunday, December 20, 2015

New York in The Age of the Great Unknowing - Written on the Occasion of the Visit


The gated and the negated.

The more I look at color the more I see gray.

How they created dimension on the flat paper.

A canvas of paper.

A room of canvas.

Canvas the room.

Lost audience.

Rule bound.

Spatially impoverished.

He taps his wrist as though it were possible to decoupage the sound.

He asks if is possible to see the painting in both color (purple) and gray.


An expression of abstraction as if it could contravene the possibility of probability.

The sex was sensational.


Are you being cute James?   Or crazy James?

Because she was a sufficiency and/an efficiency of opportunity.

A real good time knocker.   Rapity Rap Rap – It’s a wrap.

Clap clap it’s the Flapper!   Dancing the lights on and off.

Milquetoast – the quality of a Milky Maid performing the act of making ready surface for the milk paints used in the  composition in question.


Watch the sap between the limbs.

The materiality of the construction – the fabrication of the material,  the coloration, imprinting of, all shapes the emptiness of infinite space – the limits of possibility – permeability.

The outer limits of the abstract refract against the mirror of expression – an audience absent itself as the composition fails to compel, repel, engage at all.

The viewer looks and looks and looks until there is no more seeing, co completion, no unification of object and gaze.

Don’t worry it’s just a phase.

This is the train to New Haven, West Haven a new haven for Wes Craven.



Tuesday, December 01, 2015

Digital Dilemas

Too much stimulation and the temptation to create even more.   Which event is the most interesting?   Who will be where and when?   So many to dos,  I do nothing.

I am again thinking of what this space might become and how it might be an easy way to share work. And then I wonder if I should create a new space, something fresh and clean or purge or archive this one and have it be just poems and stories.  And so again I fret and do nothing or only a little of this writing about my preparing to plan to decide to do.