my process

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

the light in the window

your leg, my leg,

your arm, my arm

Charles Bukowski

Monday, October 26, 2020

movies

"I don't know why my pictures come out looking so good. I just don't get it." said Robert Mapplethorpe in the bi0-pic I watched last night, Mapplethorpe.

Some other movies that have come to my attention that I want to see but are not as available: Final Portrait - (a film about Giacometti) , Losing Ground, a 1982 movie directed by Kathleen Collins, finally released in 2015 and Beyond the Visible, a profile of Hilma af Klint.

A movie I did see however was Happy As Lazarro , directed by Alice Rohwacher. This experience was a beautiful magical dream, and I am forever changed.

Monday, October 12, 2020

drawing

It's very slow and I don't understand it yet.

Sunday, September 20, 2020

apples

What inspired me about Marcus Aurelius was the sense of speaking the truth. Writing the truth because you have no expectation of an audience. That's how I was trying to write this book.

There's nothing self-indulgent about the way he discusses himself. He's almost seeing himself entirely from the outside as a stranger would trying to understand what he is capable of, what he is not capable of and how he reacts in various situations.

Zadie Smith speaking to Eleonar Wachtel about her new book of essays (Intimations) written during the pandemic and how Aurelius' book, Meditations, inspired her.