mundane

Time to enjoy the mundane

October 23, 2023

My art exhibit continues at Caplan Art Designs, it’s going well and is in capable hands. I find I’m now enjoying quiet time to explore thoughts towards my exhibits already scheduled for next year. In my recent email newsletter containing lots of rabbits I wrote of how important I feel it is to know what…

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mixing the mundane and magical

June 20, 2019

I’ve been reading “Whiskey Galore” by Compton Mackenzie. Once again I realize that I enjoy the mix of real-life and a whimsical imaginative look at real-life. Mackenzie used a real-life event as the inspiration for his whimsy and did the mix extremely well. Already I’ve been doing some of this mixing in my work –…

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epic pug sitting

April 3, 2019

Recently I did a post titled Pug Epic Book In Art – (the post is about my painting in which a pug sits in a café reading a book) – since then I’ve also mused about a character who wrote the book the pug in the painting is reading. Here is an illustration of who…

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pug epic book in art

March 21, 2019

Recently I was in a local coffee shop and a coffee cup was silhouetted beside a rainy window. Steam rising from the cup. Such a simple thing but I began thinking of how many stories begin with simple things and grow, cumulatively, until they become epics. Like Pug dogs. So small yet so large in…

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on seeing story stuff

September 5, 2018

Beauty and wisdom are all around us if we’re attuned to look for them. Like a mystery story detective looking for clues we train our eyes to “see” what is there. This is partially a function of he way our brains work. We see what we expect to see. How broad or narrow that expectation…

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stirring occasions

August 13, 2018

As a long-time coffee lover I’ve been recently learning about tea. More than half of the world drinks tea and/or has some kind of tea ceremony. As far as I can tell the philosophy of tea is basically a way of valuing mundane life – in a somewhat carefully curated way. The ordinary as a…

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the art of the mundane

June 11, 2018

I’ve been reading a lot of novels by Donna Leon lately. Her Commissario Brunetti series. My wife and I had watched many of the movie versions, I got hooked and sought out the novels. As a result I’ve realized how often the detective mystery is solved by something mundane, trivial and even disposable. The clue…

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