“Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you – you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.” –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Dust Off the Clock, a digital fractal painting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. November 17, 2016 Looking for art for…… Continue reading Dust Off the Clock
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Moonbeams on the Attic Window
“Such a deep silence surrounds me, that I think I hear moonbeams striking on the windows.” –Lucian Blaga A midnight moon shines its light through a dull pane, signing its name on the crumbling plaster walls of a long forgotten attic room. Of the days of joy and sorrow, love and loss, life and death, only a century of…… Continue reading Moonbeams on the Attic Window
The Armchair in the Attic
“The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.” –James Thurber The two-flat in which we live has two units – one on the first floor and one on the second. The third floor/attic, open to the rafters high above, is mostly a…… Continue reading The Armchair in the Attic
No More Spark
This old Champion sticker rests in a window at Joe’s Super Service, an abandoned service station along state highway 60 in Rubicon, Wisconsin. By the look of the place, I venture a guess that there have been no plugs sold or vehicles serviced there in quite a long time. I shot this on a brief day trip…… Continue reading No More Spark
Forgotten Room
“It’s as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we’ve forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty” –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi This chair sits near the window in the small dark empty room above the detached garage…… Continue reading Forgotten Room