I did not know about the lovely Greek custom of breaking open a pomegranate on New Years (see Despina’s post HERE) but their symbolic attributes have definitely been on my mind as 2021 begins. Detail crop of some studio work I’ve been pursuing in this new year…best wishes that it will be a fruitful one […]
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While searching the studio for a drawing the other day, I came across this OLDIE: a woodcut print of the South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan. Think I made this around 1994 – still remember how much fun I had carving all of these lines and marks into the wood. Now when I suggest to a […]
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I am not one for quoting historical figures. Their words are often too easily manipulated to play either side of an argument. Like a drawing, or a painting, or a piece of music, the inspiration comes from the personal connection and that is, well, personal to each one of us. I can’t assume that the […]
View post →Another early piece from the work done for the Dalvero Academy show at Mystic Seaport, Restoring a Past, Charting a Future, that came down last week. This was one of the first prints I did in the process of working on the piece that eventually went on display. I played around with block, screen, and […]
View post →Above is a small lino-cut I had done at the South Street Seaport titled Point of Entry…into the melting pot. Thought it was kind of appropriate given the occasion this holiday weekend, Happy Thanksgiving everyone! May the best of life’s offering in this great land we call home fill yours with peace and abundance. […]
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