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In Memoriam Kafka
A perfect studio dog
When I had to put my studio dog, Kafka, to sleep after 14 years of companionship, my friend, Warren Criswell, responded, "How did you put him down?" as if there was a choice. He had, as I had, misinterpreted the other's remark.
The Studio Is Not My Friend
The Studio is not my friend. I open the door to my studio like Kafka's K opens doors in The Trial.
A Drawing for a Wedding
Aleph, 2014 • Charcoal, Pastel and Coffee on Prepared Paper • 39.75 x 54 inches.
It is always good to have an excuse for getting out of one's own head and create something for someone else.
A Fragment of Nabokov's last manuscript
My process of erasing and wiping out passages of my work, as well as my artistic sensibility, is beautifully summarized by this fragment of a page from Nabokov's last manuscript.
The Anxiety of Style
I just found some photographs of paintings I created in college. It reminded me of how artists come to develop a style.