I’ve been going through some old photographs lately and scanning them into the computer. I came across this photo of my mom taken two years before I was born. This photo is so interesting to me. To start: compositionally, it is flat and direct but the geometry is what holds my attention besides her gaze….
Late summer evenings Blackened by flocking starlings. Promised to return As fall was quickly coming the trees in my town filled up with birds. Thousands of birds. Hundreds of thousands of birds. Perhaps millions? My family and I watched the flocks of starlings that weighed down the trees and aerial power wires. The birds would…
Not surprisingly, when people hear the title of this piece, they are intrigued with the corresponding story. I, myself, only learned the story recently. The source of this goes back to listening to Rage Against The Machine, my favorite song by them is “Sleep Now In The Fire” wherein Zach De La Rocha, the bands’…
Not that A-Ha. Outside the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD is a “tree” which is basically a chandelier. It has bits of glass and mirrors all over it and as we walked by on that somewhat cloudy day I more or less thought to myself, “Hmmm, that’s cool.” But it really only struck…
