Seven Things I Will Miss Most From My iTunes Library

I awoke last Friday and saw and heard something on my laptop screen that makes Mac users cringe with horrible memories: “The Gray Screen of Death,” proceeded by an incessant clicking noise from my fatally wounded hard drive. Admittedly, I have backed up exactly nothing on an external hard drive because 1.) I don’t prepare […]

The Art & Death of the Astronaut

You might have thought that our species would be on Mars before the century was over. Instead, we’ve pulled inward, robots aside, we’ve backed off from the planets and the stars. I keep asking myself, is it a failure of nerve or a sign of maturity. Maybe it’s the most we could have reasonably expected. […]

The Art & Mind of Empty Spaces

There are questionable things lying beyond the borders of an illustration or a photo. Ideas and possibilities can be lain around the edges but none of them can be raised and proclaimed as the definitive. For illustrations there are dribbles of thoughts full of failed constructs, deceased colors and the grotesqueries of half formed notions. […]