flame white
1. prototypical color
I would call this flame white. From a Bic lighter, a blue violet vase gives way to a clear space, then a warm white peak. Intensely bright. A simple mixture in oil paints could be Cremnitz white with a touch of Gamboge, or Titanium white and the slightest touch of Quinacridone/Nickel Azo Gold if acrylic. It may seem ungodly to mix pigments to depict flame white, so to get even more ungoldy - the Pantone could be #FFFAEE.
Mount Fuji
2. the tether
The first image for the tether has to be Mount Fuji. I pulled this image from Google to serve as the primary symbol of axis mundi, a tether between the earth and heavens. This concept has intrigued me and inspired my art for nearly two decades. I will continue to post images reminiscent of tethers, axes and navels in this section, but I hope to photograph the rest from life.
historical novella
3. on the shelves
Ingeborg Bachmann wrote The Honditsch Cross when she was eighteen years old.
overlay
4. anatomy of a mark
This is a detail shot from an underpainting of a work in progress titled Sleepers. The specific area for inspection for this anatomy of a mark is the top left corner where primary red sits upon a bright yellow and appears hot pink. These pink areas are where one of the ‘sleepers’ arms and knees hang over the edge of a cliff of a yet to be painted quarry. Although most of the pink and yellow will be painted over, it would delight me if some of this moment survives.
gallery opening
Rainbow Rabbit
6. infj
Is this very INFJ? Owning this VW Rabbit has become quite dreamy. Chiaozza gifted their car, what I consider an artwork of theirs, in the fall of 2025. With the “Rainbow Rabbit” I have been able to transport canvases and supplies to a new studio in Sunset Park. While cruising through Brooklyn on the near-daily, dressed in black, looking depressed and playing the Velvet Underground, sometimes I mutter to gawking passersby, “What are you looking at?” Then I remember.
Thank you Adam, Terri, and Tove.