The compositions are free-form swathes of burned paper, from faint wisps and tawny squiggles to chocolate splotches and bold, sweeping curves. Sometimes they look like the tail end of lightening, with the unpredictable snap and recoil of a well-thrown whip; other times they’re as light as a tendril of smoke, buffeted into eddies by a… Continue reading Painting at 2100°
Medellin, First Impression
The taxi driver brought by my colleague to pick me up from the airport is asleep in the passenger side of his teeny, trunk-less car; we knock on the window and he wobbles out, a small brown man in a rumpled polo. At least I know he won’t drive me into the middle of nowhere… Continue reading Medellin, First Impression
BBQ + Blues
This defines Memphis for me: a good Sunday suit, BBQ smoked slow and served up fast, and weariness baked into the bones by 100 degree heat. Memphis isn’t a pretty city. Aside from the Pyramid Arena with its blindingly mirrored exterior — which formerly housed the Grizzlies basketball team but is now standing empty, Bass… Continue reading BBQ + Blues
A View of Zagreb
View north towards Zagreb from the hotel, just as the sun is beginning to rise, with the peaks of ZagrebaÄka gora [Medvednica Mountain] in the distance. Sitting at a cafe on the fringes of Tržnica Dolac, a group of painters capture an afternoon at the bustling farmer’s market in the center of town. Finished in… Continue reading A View of Zagreb
Solar Goes to Yoga, Gets Flexible
Camping scenario 1, reality: July 4th spent on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay is full of hiking, swimming, getting sunburned . . . the usual. After streaming music from smart phones for a teach-me-how-to-shuffle dance party, we are left technologically high and dry the next day when drained batteries thwart our efforts to… Continue reading Solar Goes to Yoga, Gets Flexible