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Who Invented The Mud Pie?
Continue ReadingIt is a simple question with a surprisingly elusive answer. Even Google turns up dry holes. No one knows where — neither the when nor the why — of the art of the mud-pie. One of those timeless things, It extends into the past until its origins blur and disappear from our view. Its future […]
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Chagrin — Vol. 2
Continue ReadingThe little fellow on the right is definitely chagrined — feeling disappointment, humiliation and upset. His friend appears to commiserate.
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Young Woman With Mixed Emotions
Continue ReadingShe rides on a float in a parade and waves half-halfheartedly toward people on a crowded sidewalk. She expresses complex emotions. I did not see what prompted this look; the event appeared and disappeared too suddenly. She has observed something she despises. A combination of anger, bitterness and disgust definitely shows up on her face. […]
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Some Other Worlds Of Light
Continue ReadingSeeing a passing storm through a different set of goggles —
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Intersecting World History
Continue ReadingTo those who would bear the hopes and future of the people, let the voice of their guns express the words of freedom. Death to the Fascist Insect that preys upon the life of the people. (Rallying Cry of the Symbionese Liberation Army) “Greetings, my comrade sisters and brothers, all love, power and freedom […]
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Uncommon Imagery in a Turkish Storefront
Continue ReadingI explored every street in downtown Selçuk, Turkey. I also sampled outlying neighborhoods. This wedding photographer’s window-display represents the only public imagery bordering on the erotic I saw in that town; in fact, I saw nothing so blatant during the rest of my trip through the conservative country of Turkey, which included a week’s stay […]
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Breaking the Fast
Continue ReadingThroughout Cairo at sundown during Holy Month, men come out into the streets to eat after a day of abstaining from food, water, cigarettes, even chewing gum and sex of any kind. If all goes perfectly, they will avoid harmful thoughts also during daylight hours. If you go out shopping or just strolling at midday […]
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Chagrin — Captured in the Wild
Continue ReadingCHAGRIN: Disquietude. Distress of mind caused by humiliation, disappointment or failure. Vexed, frustrated, annoyed, disappointed, expressing displeasure. If life, liberty and all of the future depended on it, I could not recreate on my face this expression of pure chagrin. I recorded the lady at a race track in Middle America. Catching her reaction […]
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Concerning My Belated Visit to the Hermitage
Continue ReadingWhile serving at a remote Air Force station in Alaska, I discovered Art History. We lived in dense forest inhabited by wolves among other wild beasts. Our base was in effect an isolated town with three paved streets. One two-story dormitory sat in the middle of everything, housing one hundred-fifty enlisted men; a day […]
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More On the Human Tendency to Memorialize
Continue ReadingThis wall-shrine I photographed at a pizza place owned by Indian immigrants in the Mormon hamlet of Bicknell. It is the only place open here at night excepting the Qwik-Stop, which also closes at 10pm. The restaurant serves many varieties of pizza-pie with curried toppings, has Southeast Asian television shows playing continuously; nevertheless it has […]
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