"who are we, where do we come from, where are we going?

L.F. Herreshoff

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the nature of blue

blue painting 66 x 80 inches, oil.
but remember,  it is what you see

addressing the taboos;

when Bill challenged Jack

to stop denying

the existence of gravity and

rather than taking it to the street

Jack went home and 

on behalf of gravity

reasserted  something of it's complex 

and  pulsing nature

but that was after he 

died of natural causes

plastic surgery discovery

                                                                                                                        

I should have

ground her topsides 

freehand as well

at last 

a pleasant discovery 

about F R P..... fiber reinforced plastic

a paint scraper 

with a burr

will shape the surface of

day-old epoxy *

like your favourite plane set to take

the finest shaving from hardwood

if you like tools and complexity

boat work is just the thing

* mixed with

1 west 404 

2 cabosill

3 bubbles-

glitch

there's a glitch

in the summer here

cool breeze 

through the trees

a signal to begin

bringing firewood in

an nod to Captain Nat Herreshoff and LF

to arrive at 

the daily pleasure of

what nature has in store

there's another "nature"

we must examine

the human 

curiosity 

breeds necessities

and questions 

and 

careful observations

and looking for another perspective

exploration to 

share the discoveries

occasionally 

when trying to get words 

around an inclination

the shift 

to 

from words 

to sound 

or

one more puzzle piece

falls into place

as yet another

"vain attempt at defining art"

without another perspective

from which to triangulate

how could we navigate

acquisition and maintenance 

of the necessities

like 

our present location

or 

good grinding tools, both 

electric and air drive

which have become 

difficult to find

but 

the flow lines are beginning to

surround the form

as a perspective on sculpture

or mechanical kinetic 

drawing

which is having its influence on

the intuitive 

as the form expands

to the perspectives attached 

to an ancient pine board 

from an attic floor 

for a century

to the centuries 

before

when the pine grew 

up through

towering maples

somewhere 

near here

fluid dynamics
for me 

has nothing to do with numbers

but is rather 

the seeing of turbulence 

caused by few barnacles

and wrinkles

on the hull

without the perspective of

your nature 

you proceed 

as if on a

tight-rope

A friend who became a wooden flute maker

is grateful to the old black-smith 

who minded him while

turning glowing hot metal into implements 

while they waited for the school bus.

which brought to mind Rumi's words

"a while as want may be 

true self, I could not see

but heard it's name.

I, being self confined,

self did not merit

til,

leaving self behind 

did self inherit."

night and day

oil 2 x 66 x 48 in.

wizard

80 x 66 in. oil and glass beads on canvas
home for fire-damage repairs


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