There are eleven students in my class. A couple of them have definitely taken art classes before but most have rarely picked up a pencil for anything that wasn’t homework since they were little. I wrestle each week with how much or how little to tell them about this thing I’ve been doing almost allContinue reading “Opposite Hand”
Monthly Archives: January 2024
Somebody else should be writing this.
Somebody else should be writing this. When you want to survey several decades of a painter’s work, you don’t want the subject to be in charge of the narrative. Yet that’s where we are. No one else wants or needs to do this so it falls to me. The reasons why no writer wants toContinue reading “Somebody else should be writing this.”
I Am Twenty
My website turns twenty this month. It’s been the old car on blocks in the yard that I’ve been tinkering with the whole time. A hobby and distraction from “real” work but also, often, a completely consuming obsession. It long ago stopped working well with current technology. I never learned how to mobile-optimize so it’sContinue reading “I Am Twenty”