From the archives. Shades of London used book shops, 1999.

05.02.23 /08:52

When the work has five mistakes,
it’s not yet completed.
When it has eight mistakes,
it might be.

~   Rick Rubin
the creative act
05.02.23 /08:48

Beginner’s mind is a way of life. Each day we are challenged to see the same familiar people and landscapes with new eyes.

~   Estelle Frankel
03.23.23 /10:43
03.16.23 /18:57

It doesn’t get any less scary. All that happens is that you have less life left. It helps if you do your falling early, and it really helps if you do your reaching early.

~   Mary H.K. Choi
02.01.23 /08:30
01.01.23 /12:08

Lower East Side, summer 2022.

08.06.22 /19:21
The Fisk University Jubilee Quartet, whose 1909 rendition of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot” was released into the public domain this year.
02.09.22 /10:56

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

~   Roald Dahl (hat tip: Meredith Lewis)
01.11.22 /14:21
From PAINT ALL KINDS OF PICTURES, by Arnold Spilka. New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1963.
01.11.22 /14:17
12.23.21 /18:41

Each artistic moment is just slightly beyond our horizon of understanding. What a gift it is, this lack of understanding. Perhaps we are confounded so that we might always have much to contemplate.

~   Barbara Holmes
11.23.21 /07:13

11.05.21 /14:37
10.20.21 /09:11

But my friend’s visitation helped me realize that I was a vessel for something larger, and that this thing was asking to be made. That fundamentally changed my artistic practice, because I saw it as a collaboration with the universe, with the folks who have come before, with folks who may come after. That my work is needed and desired by something and someone larger and beyond me. So I don’t think about an off-day or a shitty attempt at an essay, or ‘failed’ relationship as a mistake. I just ask what if all the things that didn’t work were actually just the drafts of the thing that will work?

~   Casey Gerald
09.28.21 /14:03
Canvas  by  andbamnan