Sarah Brecht in the Irish Hills

For Sarah Brecht's birthday today, a portrait of her wandering the hills near her former home in Ireland.

Studies for the Deluge

With things as they are, I can't be sure the show at Max Fish in May will happen. The LA Art Book Fair has already been canceled, so all this work I've been making probably won't get seen when I planned; which is a very small sorrow compared to all that's going on around us. Just the same I've decided to put a little of it out there on the web, for those who care about such things. These six are from the studies for the Deluge. They're a bunch of watercolor drawings, rain drenched views of the neighborhood where I've lived for the last thirty years.

The Big Cauldron

Turns out an old painting of mine was in a group show in Lahaska PA at Wessel O'Connor Gallery celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots last summer and I didn't know about it until a few days ago. The show was called OUT/LOUD and it was curated by my old friend Billy O'Connor. Anyway, it was a great honor to see my name listed between Warhol and Wojnarowicz.. The painting is from 1998 and it's based on some images from Elem Klimov's great film about the Nazi invasion of Belarus: Come and See. The painting's called: Scrubbing the Big Cauldron.

Though the picture is derived from some ten or more frames from Klimov's film, the young man, scrubbing the cauldron in preparation for a bath, resembles my older brother (who died when he was nearly 22 years old) and the other young man, swatting his torso with young tree branches, looks something like my younger brother as a teen, and he is also like my eldest nephew, Wesley.  So beyond its rather ominous and homoerotic qualities, it also reflects some experience I have as a brother and uncle.

Space Force Construction 1921

As one may see: Lyubov Popova constructed the Space Force in 1921.

JIM BOB

I sent James Tressler a photo of the watercolor drawing I did of him and Bob Burnside, based on photos by Fayette Hauser and (I believe) himself, and he was kind enough to post it.  So he must have liked it, which for me matters most (especially as he doesn't always like the portraits I make of him.) It's in the show now up at the Eureka Valley Rec Center.

A Nationwide Strike

A nationwide wildcat strike should commence if the US Senate does not vote to remove Donald Trump from office tomorrow. The whole country should be shut down in protest until he is forced to resign.

Trump's seemingly assured exoneration by the US Senate

The senate is a Republican Institution in that its members are not apportioned by population. In a true Republic the best qualified are educated to make decisions. Trump, his senate and court are supremely unqualified; and especially in this (and every) instance, they have acted shamefully.