the temporal tangible

I've been printing postcards in an attempt to support the continuation of snail mail.  A friend told me they received a post card in the mail recently and were surprised at how precious it seemed.  It suddenly struck me that these tangible objects, with tactile form, are still essentially temporary.  However, they are also rare instances in our lives that are more special because they lack the perfunctory effort of an email or text message.
Then I came across these lovely images I snapped one day riding my bike though Oakland.  A couple days later, they were painted over.  The temporal beautiful world.

white

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

~Philip Zimbardo

blind-light

window seen

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
~Khalil Gibran

endless indian summer

There is no thing in between the things that are nothing and nothing is between no things between me and something.

golden

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

~Khalil Gibran

 

clearly it's what we need

Last week I managed to escape my current urbanity to sleep in a ghost town, swim in clear Northern California river water, see the immensity of space reflect on skies lacking light pollution, wake with the sun and relinquish time of its duties to (this projected) reality.

A photo can only crudely represent, what is wholly, an experience.  But, I do try in my human way of holding on to a memory.



get fractal

"Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

velvet

"But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared? After all, shadows are cast by things and people. Here is the shadow of my sword. But shadows also come from trees and living beings.  Do you want to strip the earth of all trees and living things just because of your fantasy of enjoying naked light? You're stupid."

~Mikhail Bulgakov

insert change for service

Somewhere along the American West Coast you can call me.  And gaze up at Redwoods, simultaneously.

somewhere in there is an asian pear

A vignette of knife love....  with asian pear, lemon, fennel, red cabbage and chard.

Red Bitch

My baby left me 10 years ago.  She wasn't in this rough of shape, but she likely would be now if the head gasket hadn't taken her when it did.  She was red and we had a lot of fun together. How I miss her so, even knowing that buying gas for a steel beast would be nearly impossible today.  But my heart skips a bit at this sight....  I want to get in, get on the highway, press the gas, lift right off the road and cruise for awhile with the windows down.  Probably sing at the top of my lungs too. Yes.

little things

remnants

eclipse of the sun glasses

Baker Beach, San Francisco: May 20th, 2012

some afternoons are meant for books by the water, acid wash, and snake skin

bluegreen

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
~Johann Wolfgang van Goethe

catjump

Time spent with cats is never wasted.
~Sigmund Freud

structure

rhizocarpon geographicum & lichen squamulose

Escape to Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve.

teeeeeeeth

in and out

image fusion

To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing.  I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
~David Byrne

keep it cloche

street value

so it glows

Piedmont, CA: Summer 2011



plucked

A found pheasant not plundered, but made to live in beauty beyond.

at the edge of the world

In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe.  We are enfolded in the universe.
~David Bohm



loom love

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action.  They must be woven together.
~Anais Nin