With Cat Ears

Selfie with Skull / For my Cabinet

Selfie with Skull

With Undergrowth, On the easel in Vermont

With Undergrowth

Other Things on Her Mind

Ardent

Hopelessly Weird

Ruined

Belief in Things Unseen

Fallow

Beauty School Dropout

On Duralar

Self Portrait as Housebound Lunatic

Self Study with Nostalgia and Scrapbook Paper

These are hopefully components of a larger work, the immediacy of painting on an appropriated ground and doing quick, imaginary, wistful and hopelessly inaccurate (too flattering - could be ten years ago!) self-portrait pleases me, but it may not have its uses. The daily dribbles please me. I should post more, its just, most of them embarrass me more than these.

Self as Thing

I've just started choking down my summer reading. Why oh why do I wait till August for nonfiction? But the first book, "The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects" by Peter Schwenger suits me just fine. It seems a subtle treatise for someone like me who purports to paint still life, however bent...

Self Portrait as a Young Pile