$50

5″ x 7″

I feel like if I could read the text I’d be able to get a grip on what’s happening here. It’s like the dream I had where I was trying to read text on a piece of paper but the words were upside-down, so I turned the paper around and they were still upside down.

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Ffffffyyyyuyuyuyu

April 28, 2014 by Noah

6″ x 8″

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Blocks and Flying Eye

October 28, 2013 by Noah

9″ x 12″

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Viking Passes a Green Hill

October 25, 2013 by Noah

9″ x 12″

The viking motif continues with a solo voyager. Vikings usually travel in groups, so one seizes the occasion to interlope on one’s own.

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Birthday Blocks, Yellow, Red and Pink

October 19, 2013 by Noah

6 1/2″ 10 1/5″

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What We Were in the Olden Times

August 14, 2013 by Noah

5″ x 8″

Blue ballpoint pens are, I think, terrible to write with but the lines sling all around, good for drawing. The river below. Above is a sketch of this little lady from a group of plaster Fisher-Price casts I did years ago. In this she’s maybe an ancestor, or celestial something.

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Why Is Six Afraid of Seven

July 28, 2013 by Noah

6″ x 8″

Because seven ate nine. On another note, the word stylus comes to us from Etruscan, as few words do.

Recently talking with Bill B. about polysemy and open meanings in drawing and writing. He said about one poem “as much polysemy as the poem can bear.” (phrasing taken from something Jane Freilicher said, about wanting “as much light as the painting can bear”).

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Of the Federal Occupation

July 28, 2013 by Noah

8″ x 10″

I came across a photograph of a Confederate army camp. What struck me about the image was the manner of the soldiers’ poses, one draped over another’s lap, comfy as BFF’s at a sixth grade sleepover.

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Sugar Ants in the Cracker Pail

July 18, 2013 by Noah

6″ x 8″

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Nightfall in the Switch-cane

July 17, 2013 by Noah

6″ x 8″

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The Beards of the Ancients

May 6, 2013 by Noah

5″ x 8″

The beards of the ancients cannot grow on my chin. Something like that was written by Tao Chi (17th painter and poet during the late Ming Dynasty) to talk about unavoidable newness in painting, stylistically speaking.