Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. ~Wu-men At night, lots of birds settle on the tree.  Some are happy, and some are sad.  Caught in the desires of [...]

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences, what others say in one book.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche Carl Hancock Rux’s literary work, Asphalt: A Novel, tells the tale of a city.   An apocalyptic event – the collapse of the Brooklyn Bridge – creates chaos.  In minimal language, Rux asks: what will we bury? how [...]

A year, ten years from now, I’ll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.  ~Adrienne Rich Bridges connect.  People and places.  A walk.  Over unwalkable paths.  Timelines of history –  Jews out of Paris, southern slaves, Israelites fleeing Egypt – forced migrations.  Secrets in the open.  Where do we settle? [...]

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.  ~Voltaire It’s Labor Day and I’m relaxing on southern beaches and  lounging at the pool.  This morning in the corner of the patio I noticed a woman in dark sunglasses, long black Adidas pants, a [...]

Grief makes one hour ten. ~William Shakespeare These photographs from Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York were taken in the 1930s.  The project emphasized the city’s staggering scale and her desire for more moderate, human-scaled urban design.  Some of Berenice Abbott’s photos will be on exhibit at the Heckscher Museum of Art, along with other artists’ [...]

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without even having noticed it. ~C.S. Lewis Eric Fischl’s Tumbling Woman sculpture [...]

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. ~H.L. Mencken Nothing Will Ever Be The Same Again is a series of four books cast in cotton rag pulp, 19.5″ x 29.5″ each, by artist, Ravikumar Kashi.  This piece was [...]

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.  ~Confucius Steve Tobin’s sculpture, Roots, is mentioned in What Remains? Outside Trinity Church, perched on the empty flagstone courtyard facing Wall Street, lightly rests Steve Tobin’s bronze sculpture,Roots.  [...]

The arts are the rain forests of society.  They produce the oxygen of freedom, and they are the early warning system when freedom is in danger.  ~June Wayne (1918-2011) Image Source: http://mbabramgalleries.com/june_wayne_goodbye.html

My work is purely autobiographical… It is about myself and my surroundings. ~Lucian Freud (1922-2011)