It's been so long since I've felt this good. It's up to me to turn things around now.

  There is something to be said about the difference between feeling and wanting to feel. If you were to ask me how I feel, I would not know how to answer. But if you were to ask me how I want to feel ( Read more... )

I keep wondering how exactly one perceives time. I know everyone sees it as a line. The reason for that is, however, that not more than one experience can fill a moment. They come one at a time. If you're lucky, they come very quickly, and you get to experience the richest detail in the closest period of time ( Read more... )

Alyssa Fanning. Drippy and meaty paint conceal the actual subjects she paints, concealing them behind a texture of pain and punk. There is an endless repetition of subject and surrounding within her practice, like a studio mantra intending to reach something higher. Dirty walls, dirty whites, and a tendency to focus on “the spaces within the spaces ( Read more... )

Is it true that the work grows as it goes along, or is it we who mature as we work? How akin are we to men stumbling, blind in the dark of the allegorical cave, while the windowsill and the sunlight patiently wait for us to grope the stony rim ( Read more... )

You've seen Broken Angel, the derelict dream on Quincy and Downing. Multiple levels, impossible angles, architectural ingenuity that's been slowly shattered by the oppressive grinding onslaught that is the unnatural wear and tear of Brooklyn. One can never see it anywhere other than from the direct front; though it's the tallest building for blocks ( Read more... )

This used to be posted to my home page ( Read more... )

Once, the only thing that I could occupy my creative mind with was the concept of the sprawling narrative, the allegory that was mine alone to tell and re-interpret. I brought it to a point of closure, and put it aside ( Read more... )

"By trade, I'm an image-maker. Painting is a craft, and what I am doing is working to become a professional artist. I create worlds and draw upon a mirror to the world I live in.

"By nature, I am a storyteller. I'm a talker, I like to put on a show, to have an audience, and of course, to be the center of attention at all times. I don't just want ( Read more... )