The Images we carry

long narrow roll of paper, Rene used as a stethescope

Stop and smell the flower?

is not a good idea for all
If a plant is on the left
on the lunch table and you
are leaning to the right,
with your nose suffused
with the natural smell
Now you know another reason
for the artifical in
the flower vase.

once for all you will know
to stop and smell the flower
or not
If the bees didnt swarm
the flowers, an allergic person
could help Solomon
sometimes bees swarm people

Gag gift

A colleague once gave me a pack of wood shavings claiming it to be a mensa puzzle. As kids, we marveled at a perfect peeling of a wooden pencil with the sharpener, hoping it wouldnt break off.

Habitational Expressionism

I came across this term in this book weird California. I have seen auto dealers offices each replete with a theme. One office was a mini Monroe museum. Another had a 5 feet model of an airplane hanging from the top. I am likely to store parts of a tree - seeds, pods, flowers - collected on walks.

Yesterday while taking the turn to Mission Viejo, I wondered what laguna Niguel on right had. This weird CA book had the answer. I heard of the annual event last July, but did not register the name of the place. In Old town San Diego, a look at 'Whaley House' had me thinking on the lines of what cuisine it might be while the building seems to be content haunted. Same is the case with Hotel del Coronado.

Whose claim

Dido stole a flute as a kid. Herzog stole a camera as a young man. A grown up version of a ritual.

More drawing lessons

Beginning this book with some 'before'sketches, what was to be a sketch of my grandmother turned out to be a young woman of a different race. If this were some shamanistic drawing, it would send me on a distant voyage to find my ancestors. when I drew a self portrait, my roomate thought I drew a hag. next time I am going to draw a distorted me to get it right. Some exercises in the drawing book seemed easy. Filling one side of the vases (which also form the face contours) looking at the other. I was using my left brain which I should not have for the purpose of letting the right brain kicked in. Recognising Einstein's from an upside down picture. Now that deserves a pat. The most interesting exercise of this book was drawing pictures upside down. That is a surprise. Another interesting one was drawing negative spaces. I now have a picture which looks like the opened mouth of an animal seized in time whose dentition should baffle any zoologist.

Stoke the Line

While looking at
Old Tree and Horses in The Art of Book of Chinese Paintings, I recognised the horse. Well, I have drawn some of them which resemble cattle and beasts of burden. Ming Deng, the author of the book thinks its 'Zhao Mengfu's confidence in his painting skills shows in his willingness to use very simple lines to depict horses at difficult angles.'
These horses are from a picture in Rita Mae Brown's 'Animal Magnetism' book.