A Little Natural History and Circuitry
This week, Esq. Joshua St. John, the botanist, came calling with gifts of dead things to photograph, so tonight I got to goof about with bugs and bits of plants and one antique… Continue reading
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Eating Sunday – Get Happy!
I am no believer in the fallacy of foodstuffs as aphrodisiacs and this post isn’t about sex (I swear!). But I believe in the psychology of what food can mean and do to us. In dream interpretation, there… Continue reading
Summer Distraction?
A little minor surgery put me on hiatus for awhile, and I really did mean to take a couple of weeks off from photography. It was a noble idea, since on top of… Continue reading
Eating Sunday: Summer Bonum
Like most teenagers, I could be alternately acerbic and cynical and wildly romantic. I may have been infatuated with the Sex Pistols, but one of my favorite romantic poems was Robert Browning’s Summer Bonum (of course not Romantic,… Continue reading
Eating Sunday – West Coast Cuisine?
Just what is West Coast cuisine? When confronted with this in restaurants, it seems to imply hazelnuts and salmon. If anything, I think of the abundance of produce, the diversity of cultural influences… Continue reading
Summer Abstraction
I was first introduced to algebra in the fourth grade. It was part of a larger program in math, but the idea that x could represent anything was troublesome. The variable was an abstraction… Continue reading
Is That A Snake In the Freezer?
Mark Menjivar – “You Are What You Eat”. http://markmenjivar.com/you-are-what-you-eat/statement/ It’s well worth the time to check out this artist’s project of taking photographs of the contents of people’s refrigerators. It’s fascinating and sad,… Continue reading
Eating Sunday – Bachelorette Chow!
This week it’s all about food from the flip side of Sunday; the stuff you don’t want others to know about. Maybe it’s Chocodiles for dinner or chilli and cheese dumped on nacho chips.… Continue reading
Adventures in Texture – That Obscure Object of Desire
I am a little bit of a mathmatics groupie. I left math unpursued when I was in school because as an artist with tunnel vision, I saw no beauty in it. As I have… Continue reading
Eating Sunday – Thanksgiving in August
I’m not exactly wild about Thanksgiving. Other than the fact that it’s a day off, state-sanctioned gluttony and a history of familial stress doesn’t make for a magical day. However, I have been feeling… Continue reading