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Word Art: True Wealth

Do you want to be a rich person, or do you want to live a rich life?

The question came to me while I was doing my Three Daily Pages and it’s a phrase I try to keep in my back pocket as a perpetual reminder. This was my effort to turn that idea into […]

Word Art: Contraction and Expansion

This one was created on the first day of 2010 to fill in a small black frame I’d picked up in a thrift shop run. I suppose it would have been appropriate to do something about new beginnings or fresh starts, but instead I did this:

Contraction and Expansion

This is what they […]

Word Art: The Rules of the Game

This piece was started in the middle of the Upper West Side Folk Art Market (because I needed something to do while waiting for people to drift past my table, squint at my work, nod, smile and wander on) and eventually finished at home a week or two later. While sometime I can crank out […]

Word Art: Moons, Stars, Comets and Other Possibilities

As I’ve mentioned, when making Word Art I pencil in the boundaries before I begin writing, so I can shape the words accordingly. I’d wanted to do one about a night sky, and so I penciled in a crescent moon and some stars and took to writing in that general direction. Somewhere in the middle […]

Word Art: Exile

I think of all the materials and objects I use to create my word art, the only ones specifically purchased for artmaking purposes was the pack of Pilot G-2 Mini gel pens that I picked up at an office supply store. The rest of my art supplies are things that were handed down to me […]

Word Art: Questions Without Answers

On Wednesday nights at The Glenwood, a jazz combo led by a young man named Taylor Kennedy plays in the corner of one of the rooms. I’ve taken to toting my materials in a well-worn bag and spending a few hours there, sipping wine, listening to jazz and making art. Questions Without Answers is probably […]

Word Art: That Which Is Called the Heart

After I finished Spiral, I took a short break and then sat down and began on what became That Which Is Called the Heart. It was an initial experiment in writing around white space and it taught me the singularly important lesson that I’ve carried to every subsequent work–use something to keep the lines straight! […]

Word Art: Spiral

Spiral was the first prototype for my Word Art that I was willing to show to other people. (I’d tried something a couple of months prior, but the result was such a hot mess I’m not showing it to anybody until I’ve established a solid enough body of work to render said hot mess into […]

Catching Up on Word Art

My original plan when I started posting my Word Art on this blog was to update it weekly with a new piece. Those who have been keeping an eye on this blog (both of you) might have noticed that I fell a bit behind on that schedule. In the meantime, I’ve accumulated enough art that […]

Upper West Side Folk Art Market

Just wanted to let anybody out there who might be in the Atlanta area know that I’ll be showing my work at the Upper West Side Folk Art Market this weekend. The opening reception is tonight starting at 5:00 PM and it continues through Sunday, February 14. And, yes, I’ve been a bit busy getting […]