Tuesday, March 30, 2010

"A while ago, I was at a restaurant with my mother, and she fancied the waiter's hands. She said to me, ''I worry that I will never be touched again, except by the undertaker.'' I kept thinking about that, how, as you get older, age and time become more and more interesting. The idea for ''The Mother'' involves sex of a scandalous nature, and I realized that would be a good starting point. But it was the undressing of her dignity that moved me."
Hanif Kureishi, film maker

Monday, March 8, 2010

'Kite', 22x16"
now in the collection of
Amy McGrath, Raleigh, NC

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

"Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found in certain painters and philosophers who seek to penetrate the darkness which surrounds us purely by means of looking and thinking."
from Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald


the sea grinds everything back to pebbles