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Painting from a vintage piece of ephemera, probably European (I loves me an odd composition). Somehow paint conveys importance to commonplace subjects that photography doesn’t always. Medium the message?

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Inspired by a visit to Russia shortly after the demise of the Soviet state. There weren’t many visible signs of the increasing economic disparity but what was there was greeted with silence and denial.

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I love the proportions of man to machine in this painting from a vintage photo I’ve had hanging out in my files for a while. I think it may actually may be taken in France or the Netherlands but the title sounds better in Italian, as do most things.

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Returning schizophrenically to a painterly style for this topic. “Stripes” reminded me of learning calligraphy when I was younger and the tedium of making guidelines. That idea morphed into the reality that so few people use handwriting at all these days, let alone learn fine penmanship. But it’s never too late.

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In honor of our 15th Anniversary.

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Heard a financial advisor on NPR talking about how much money someone needs to have saved before they can retire in anything like “comfort”, presuming we’re all going to live into our 80′s and possible beyond. I could tell where this was leading so I reached for the radio and turned it off…but not in time to avoid hearing The Number. Suffice to say it’s big and scary. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry but at the same time I detected a small voice from within saying, “I’ll be curious to see how I pull off this whole aging thing.”

Thus I offer this little tribute to the idea that we can elect to be curious rather than fearful.

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