The sky in the east was a bright Superman blue.
— Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
So that what might to the incurious simply appear as stylized conventions would reveal themselves to the uninhibited archaeologist of culture as traces of terror or ecstasy … To give the symbol its real due, thus, meant going beyond the habits of the scholar, beyond classification and elucidation. It meant confronting, in their shapeless, frighteningly indeterminate form, the forces behind the device, all of which were necessarily unreasonable.
— Simon Schama on Aby Warburg, Landscape and Memory
By now, Friuli, to be
far away is to be unknown.
The time of our love
is like a glistening
dead sea.
Your part has ended in light
and I have no darkness in me
to hold your shadow.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini, Envoi, translated from Friulian by Stephen Sartarelli
Paintings from left to right, top to bottom
- Pirate Dollar, 2020, watercolor on paper
- P-A-W-N, 2020, watercolor on paper
- ‘84 Pompeii, 2020, watercolor on paper
- When It Snows, 2020, watercolor on paper
- Fish, Flesh, Fowl, Or Good Red Herring, 2019, watercolor on paper
- Real American Strength, 2018, watercolor and gouache on paper
- Great Cozy Furniture, 2018, watercolor and gouache on paper
- The Blue Ribbon Inn, 2018, watercolor on paper
- Jesus In The Sun, 2018, watercolor and gouache on paper
- What Color Is Your Garden Hose?, 2017, watercolor and gouache on paper
- A Perfect Day For The Banana Leaf Umbrella, 2018, watercolor on paper
- A Deal So Good, It’s Fishy, 2017, watercolor on paper
- Echo And Narcissus, 2017, watercolor on paper
- View Drive, 2017, watercolor on paper
- The Fruit Of Knowledge Is Never Ripe, 2016, watercolor on paper
- Our Little Corner Of Paradise, 2016, watercolor on paper