Monthly Archives: September 2025

I turned fifty-five yesterday. I’m writing this a week before so that’s not exactly true, but close enough. The newsletter comes out Monday mornings and I do my best to be done with the following week’s by Thursday at the latest. Otherwise it gets stressful and I’m not much interested in that. Talking about myContinue reading “Double Nickels”

Art isn’t like math. If you take a picture’s elements apart and put them back together, you may well get an entirely different image. Takakao Konishi—the co-curator of the exhibition this book documents—tells me he used to always start a new piece from a well-thought-out idea. Then, at a recent art residency, he challenged himselfContinue reading “No Narratives Necessary”

I’m trying to figure out how to talk about the two books Arcade Publishing is putting out in October. I can’t in good conscience promote them whole-heartedly, as they will not be what I intended. Yet, I’m happy with the work I’ve done and would like if people had a chance to judge for themselves.Continue reading “Suicide’s Grave”