Ever since Chicago Film Society screened When A Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), I’ve been down a Mikio Naruse funnel. That movie was relentlessly brutal but seductive at the same time. I’ve watched a bunch of others and the man is a connoisseur of human suffering. Every way one person can torment another is exploredContinue reading “Naruse”
Monthly Archives: June 2025
Let’s Get Lost (in the alley)
A house down my block burned up nearly a year ago. I remember they cut power to the entire block while getting it dowsed. I read Avner Landes’ WWII Soviet writer propaganda tour novel by candle-light waiting for the electricity to return. Riding home through the alley a couple weeks ago, I saw a bunchContinue reading “Let’s Get Lost (in the alley)”
wildlife
I’ve been painting animals the last week or two. I don’t know any of them. Most are for the Faulkner book I’m illustrating so you could say they’re imaginary. But they’re real to me. At least for the time it takes the ink to dry. I never met Simone the cat but know she diedContinue reading “wildlife”