Armadillo/Skunk Hour Versions

Armadillo/Skunk Hour II

Allergies

Ocean

Armadillo/Skunk Hour I

The Bishop/Lowell series continues, this time with a juxtaposition of two poems they dedicated to each other. Armadillo is on the left, Skunk Hour on the right, to reflect the order in which they were written, Lowell's in response to Bishop's. 

Birds of North America (WIP)

You Must Believe in Spring

Blueberry Pies

"Where Do We Go?"

Armadillo/Skunk Hour I

The Bishop/Lowell series continues, this time with a juxtaposition of two poems they dedicated to each other. Armadillo is on the left, Skunk Hour on the right, to reflect the order in which they were written, Lowell's in response to Bishop's. 

Everything got ugly and complicated (unfinished)

It's been a while. Experimentation is leading to some very messy places that are not without symbolic freight.

Tower of Foil

More Prefab Sprout-inspired nonsense, again from "Bonny."

"All my life in a tower of foil.
Shaded feelings, I don't believe you."

Javelin Unlanding

Javelin Unlanding is a song by Bill Callahan, one of the great unsung poet heroes of our time. Lyrics posted at the bottom, versions of the painting posted from bottom to top.

Don't die just yet and leave me

Alone, alone, alone

On this journey round the sun

You looked like worldwide Armageddon while you slept

You looked so peaceful, you scare me

Don't die just yet and leave me

Alone, alone, alone

On this journey round the sun

And oh javelin, oh javelin unlanding

And oh javelin, oh javelin unlanding

Sometimes it's hard to know when to call it an evening

See as much as we can stand, stand 'til we stagger

Laying all twisted together and exposed like roots on a riverbank

Bam bam bam! The earth off its axis

The first draft's in ashes and smeared on our faces

Oh javelin, oh javelin unlanding

Oh javelin, oh javelin unlanding

Never Met a Stranger

Stained Glass

A progression. The latest version is at the top and the earliest iteration is at the bottom. The ones in the middle represent the steps through the process. I'm not at all sure this is done yet, but I think I know where it's going.

Easter Egg Hunt

The top two turned into the bottom two. I cannot explain how this happens.