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Bellini's "The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr”

March 09, 2020

It’s always interesting to see what I want to see and connect with in the museum. There are many old friends who I respect but who I don’t particularly want to spend time with.

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Rackstraw Downes at Swarthmore College

Mar 10, 2020

Having spent a lot of time road tripping through this country I have driven past countless scenes like this, but to be honest I have never given them the time of day. Endless telephone wires, one homogenous tower after the other, a pump house, McMansions, another gas station, my impulse was always to get to the desert or the woods as fast as possible to flee this type of modern industrial drudgery.

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Mar 9, 2020

Turner’s "East Cowes Castle: The Regatta Starting for their Moorings”

Mar 9, 2020

Turner’s “East Cowes Castle: The Regatta Starting for their Moorings” helps me have a lot more empathy for the Lepidoptera because like them I am drawn right to the light in this piece and I can’t escape.

This painting has the most awesome and seductive light. Sitting in front of it i’m completely hypnotized and transfixed by it. Nothing else matters. I don’t have to think about anything I can just rest in this perfect luminosity. thoughts that arise can be carried off by the river or dissolve into the sun and I’m just left to rest in this perfectly illuminated spaciousness.

Mar 9, 2020

Poussin's "The Triumph of David"

Mar 9, 2020

Even though this is meant to be a triumphant scene where David is supposed to be the victor I can’t help but be drawn more to Goliath. I feel compassion for this beheaded man. I see the suffering and pain in his face which has far more humanity in it than the supposed victor who is parading his head on a stick.

Mar 9, 2020

Canaletto at the Wallace Collection

Mar 9, 2020

It’s incredibly difficult to paint the sensation of staring at the sky for a long time but Canaletto captured it in this piece. Space, thoughts, the movement and transformation of thoughts, space.

Mar 9, 2020

Morandi at Tornabuoni Art London

Mar 9, 2020

I suspected that this is a perfect painting but after sitting with it I am now certain. The cluster reminds me of the naked ancient remnants of the forum. Like those ruins I saw as a kid these too possess stories and a hidden life I will never be able to decode. The vessels are open but I am never granted the opportunity to look inside.

Mar 9, 2020

Tate Modern

Mar 9, 2020

It’s interesting being at the Tate modern, I absolutely do not care about 90% of the modern and contemporary art. I find most of it dead and boring and it doesn’t hold my attention. I don’t want to look at these opaque walls.

Mar 9, 2020

Bellini's "The Assassination of Saint Peter Martyr”

Mar 9, 2020

It’s always interesting to see what I want to see and connect with in the museum. There are many old friends who I respect but who I don’t particularly want to spend time with.

Mar 9, 2020