Towards Puccini

contemporary oil painting of Opera composer Puccini.

They say that art is the technology of the soul. The best of it integrates sensory experience, appeals to our thinking, an internal logic, our imagination, and taps our emotions. When those things come together it triggers our circuits to fire on all frequencies.

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Newberry, "Little Light of Mine", charcoal on Rives BFK, 26x19 inches.

Newberry, "Not to Be Answered", charcoal on Rives BFK, 19x13 inches. Death touched my life when three people near me, in the same year, died.  The horrible result was that I felt nothing. One of them was a Dutch woman I didn’t know very well, but we were related in a sense.  I knew she …

Transcending Oblivion

Oblivion cut

Horrified by the subject's meaning backfiring I went through my options, never forgetting that I had already put 3,000 hours towards this work. Every way I looked at it there was no solution that appeared to improve the painting. Michelangelo hacked away a figure not working ...