The Shadow and Sun

Mystery: something difficult or impossible to understand or explain.

She is ninety six. I try to calm her. She is upset that her memory has failed once again. I tell her I have forgotten many things today. She feels a little better, less alone. She needs comfort and company - someone to sit with her a while. The mystery in her life is at times too great.

I talk about small things: the birds outside her window, the shadow, the sun. Her darkness lifts.

Creative Conversations

Creative conversations flow like music improvisation. Someone throws an idea into the mix, another picks it up, rolls it around then tosses it back. At times It is often not what is said, but how something is said that shifts the tone, and before I know I'm heading somewhere fresh.

Reading is a world apart from hearing someone speak.

I love to talk. I love to listen. Perhaps I talk too much, and so, I rarely talk out loud.

The Size of Art

Large-scale works of art have no more personal significance over smaller ones. The scope and ambition of an artwork may increase its complexity and breadth, but size plays little part in its affect.

If I listen to a solitary voice sing a simple tune it can be as powerful, as beautiful as listening to a 120 piece orchestra playing a four movement fifty minute long symphony. One has as much value to me as the other. Large artworks are however always more expensive to produce, and may be sold for more...