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. . . perhaps the same

bird echoed through both of us

yesterday, separate, in the evening . . .

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“Yes, we have lost track of the light, the mornings, the holy innocence of those who forgive themselves.”

Albert Camus, from The Fall

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Took a photo of my painting. Need to learn how to adjust the photo so I can make prints of my art.

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Idea for a photo series. Using compositing, combine the pad portion of a used band-aid with photos I've taken that offer social commentary.

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Today was Claire's last day. We said goodbye to her this afternoon.

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This is a low resolution sketch of some of what I've been working on. This is a hybrid of photo and painting. Right now most of the painting has been done digitally, but I'm working on techniques for applying this to paper and to canvas using digital ground, watercolor ground, acrylic medium, etc.

Anj at Corpus Christi July 18, 2024 Sony a7rii, Bokina 90 2.5

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"I live and die unheard . . ."

“But as it is, I live and die unheard, With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword.”

— from “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Lord Byron

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Longing for someone who is gone . . . Or perhaps never was . . .

(I drew for 14 hrs today. This was one of many portraits of the day.)

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Well the night she has fallen--she's down on her knees.

Like the moon drunk and calling, I'm calling to sea.

Oh, sweet west wind wash me--my hands are caked and stained.

Won't you lay down beside me; love, I need your pain.

And you know it's going to be alright,

And you know it's going to be alright,

And you know it's going to be alright,

When the morning comes.

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This is another hybrid painting (screen shot with my phone). It started on paper. I scanned it in and have been adding details with my Wacom in Photoshop. Then I’ll apply digital ground to my original painting and print the details over the top. Each detail is a layer in Photoshop so I can adjust how it prints over the original. In Photoshop, I am using the generative AI to make gold leaf. After I print the final layers to my actual painting (on paper), I'll apply real gold leaf and then tint the gold leaf with washes. (Link for info about digital ground: https://justpaint.org/reinventing-the-future-golden-digital-grounds-and-gel-topcoats-wuvls/)

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How often places like this haunt my dreams.

Home sick, Wrocław

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I wrote this for you.

To make you cry.

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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

[Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein.]

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil], Aphorism 146 (1886) [tr. Hollingdale (1973, 1990)]

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In my spare time, I draw and paint some pretty dark stuff that I don't share here or anywhere. Today this quote popped into my head (in German) as I was painting the eye of one of my creations:

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Drew this between midnight and 5:30 am. I'm calling it:

'Alright, Alright, Alright'

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Out of whatever we have been We will make something for the dark.

Philip Levine, closing lines to “For Fran,” New Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1991)