This is my room...

 ...like most inglorious containers, it yields to the wonders that glow beyond the windows.

As I adjust my gaze, this longing to be animate, is… Read full post »

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 October, 1859

  Steel rails lined the boundless prairie in many parts of the west during the young Illinois Lawyer’s tenure as a circuit defender. The… Read full post »

Carrie Robinson. A.K.A. Mary Washington, Gospel Singer, Chicago (film to video capture, 1964)

Many years ago I walked along the broken sidewalks and soiled gutters of Chicago's Near-South Side and entered the gritty, trash strewn city lots of Maxwell Street Market. The first act/… Read full post »

Head on Horizon: Redux  2000-2009, light, (digital projection, 2009 in collaboration with  L.J. Douglas), mixed media, dimensions variable 

Writing about one’s own artwork is often difficult. The main task is finding palpable meaning to share with… Read full post »

NASA photo

The Moon took a hit October 9. Are we lacking water down here....No, we don't want to haul all that weight to the most challenging campsite ever established.  A large, floating body should be more than a stage where… Read full post »

The Repo-Romantic is a person who desperately tries to reclaim the quixotic lifestyle of characters who are exalted for irrational behavior in certain cultural contexts, mostly in the domain of literature and really bad movies. The RR lives and thrives in the realm/… Read full post »

There is a rare fortune in the minutes that pass when one is sitting at a bar, waiting for a pizza. The operators and wait staff know your name, and replay the subjects of the last time you all found yourselves sharing notes, across the hard expanse… Read full post »

Lead (pronounced /ˈlÉ›d/) is a main-group element with symbol Pb (Latin: plumbum) and atomic number 82. Lead is a soft, malleable poor metal, also considered to be one of the heavy metals. Lead has a bluish-white color when freshly cut, but tarni… Read full post »

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The skies of United Airlines have usually been friendly, and if you think about their ad campaign, you simply cannot avoid some notion of the friendliness of the skies… Read full post »

_{I am full of admiration for all you young people.}

First of all, I want to thank G for his generosity in allowing me to use his blog site for this address.

I wanted to start by adressing something that has troubled me… Read full post »

I made a toast to the Lion tonight, I don’t think he would have minded it, even through his struggles to overcome the spirit’s hold…..

 _{Lucca Grill, unofficial Democratic Headquarters, Bloomington, IL}

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The door to my studio was locked shut, but I suspected Kal-El was probably inside. Our severely damaged ceiling in the building entryway had been repaired and painted in a lovely shade of blue…a repair of this complexity in the space of 24 hours is not a… Read full post »

       In the activities of our lives, the actions that dazzle our memories persuade us to document them. And when we are finished, we discover part of the nature of… Read full post »

I have longed to be gazed upon. That is the object of my true function. For endless moments, I stood propped in the darkened space, seeing only streams… Read full post »

_{Neil Armstrong  training in 1966                 NASA/Space Frontiers/Getty Images}

_{In the official transcripts of the words uttered by Neil Armstrong as he jumped off of the Lunar Lander, stood on the Moon, and}… Read full post »

_{Digital approximation of the Farmer's Great Ash}

The taxonomy of trees was always something my brother and his friends were interested in. The classifications, sketches, photographs, illustrations and notes were their province, guarded and kept to themselves…shoved awa… Read full post »

In reading the Declaration of Independence, it is clear that Jefferson's inspiration was fueled largely by his outrage with the ind/… Read full post »

Two people, arrested in a time and space where only bubblegum fairies and blue-sky babies rule the world. Try as they might, only happy, happy, happy talk falls from their lips.

Can they escape this confetti-dipped universe or are they bound there, for eternity, dancing gleefully until/… Read full post »

I saw this picture of George Clooney and it made a big clunking dent in the ruminations of my regular, indulgent but calcified behaviors. It had to be, without any doubt,… Read full post »