When philosophy paints its grey on grey, then has a shape of life grown old. By philosophy’s grey on grey it cannot be rejuvenated but only understood. The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk. –Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosophy of Right (1821) This is the first new painting […]| Redtree Times
I long for scenes where man hath never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where…| Redtree Times
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature – if that word can be used in reference to m…| Redtree Times
Centuries of husbandry, decades of diligent culling, the work of numerous hearts and hands, have gone into the hackling, sorting, and spinning of this tightly twisted yarn. Furthermore, we have not…| Redtree Times
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush, little baby, don’t you cry One of…| Redtree Times
‘Cause I have all of life’s treasures and they’re fine and they’re goodThey remind me that houses are just made of woodWhat makes a house grand, oh, it ain’t the roof …| Redtree Times
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bent by the same wint…| Redtree Times
To the Main Road- At Principle Gallery I knew that I had ample room in which to wander, since science has calculated the diameter of space to be eighty-four thousand million light years, which, whe…| Redtree Times
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things. — Ray Br…| Redtree Times
It’s akin to style, what I’m talking about, but it isn’t style alone. It is the writer’s particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of …| Redtree Times
The Wisdom Beyond Words- At Principle Gallery The hero adventures out of the land we know into darkness; there he accomplishes his adventure or again is simply lost to us, imprisoned, or in danger;…| Redtree Times
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. –Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887) As an artist, if you will allow to call mys…| Redtree Times
Often I think that however much I draw or paint, or however well, I am not an artist as art is generally understood. The abstract is meaningless to me save as a fragment of the whole, which is life…| Redtree Times
Thought I would share a recap of this past weekend at the Principle Gallery in the aftermath of my opening there on Friday evening. The opening itself was a bit more subdued than in previous years …| Redtree Times
Yesterday was a pretty long day and I find myself kind of whipped this morning so this is going to be a relatively short post. I will write more about the opening of my Entanglement show at the Pri…| Redtree Times
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages. –Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror (1978) Historian Barbara …| Redtree Times
Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastick toe… –John Milton, L’Allegro, (1645) Friend and artist Gary Myers’s annual solo exhibit at the Principle Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia ope…| The Task at Hand