No. 45: I Cross My Heart

 

 

 

 

 

 "cross my heart
and hope to die
stick a needle in my eye
wait a moment,
i spoke a lie
i never really
wanted to die.
but if i may
and if i might
my heart is open
for tonight
though my lips are sealed
and a promise is true
i won't break my word
my word to you..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gazos Love Songs: Polyptych

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gazos Love Songs: "Stopped Into A Church I passed Along The Way..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Inside Out and Upside Down of "O Say Can You See"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"O Say Can You See"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gazos Love Songs: Fall Aflame

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C H A L K : Monochromatic Masked Man Mood Indigo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Inspiration

Every Mark Its Mask        Zeng Fanzhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C H A L K : K e s u

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Captain Nemo's Nautilus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With My Back Turned Towards The Sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black And White Yellow Bus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Likeness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2020 V i s i o n

 

Momiji: Wondering If Hope Is The Destination (redux)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In'utsu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety

James Baldwin

 

 

 

Gazos Love Songs: Mown Grass

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gazos Love Songs: Group Portrait in August

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paper On Paper: The Untitiled

“We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. As we were. As we are no longer. As we will one day not be at all.”

The Year of Magical Thinking    Joan Didion

Paper On Paper: The Fifth of Nine

At Windhover: Accommodating Schinus Molle

                                         

Asemic Writing and the Conjugation of Coconut

Picture Draping A Day (redux)

Momiji: Wondering If Hope Is A Destination

As The Crow Flies 2020

Momiji: To Be Out of Focus

Shadow of Left Foot About to Cautiously Take the Next Step

At Windhover: In Shadows a Passing Moment of Reflection

Botan: Still Life

Time Measured

Gazos Love Songs: A Fifth of July

Shadowed

Gazos Love Songs: "He will show you lines that time has etched into your face..."

Ask any mirror
Is there no escape
He will show you lines that time has etched into your face
And all around the edges
Life is turning gray
And you can no longer turn your head the other way
And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here

When eating comes too easy
Nothing makes you think
There's too much time to sun yourself 
And too much wine to drink
And now there's nothing left to help maintain your failing pride
You hunger for the older days when rich men satisfied
And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here

In the twilight years life takes a bend
And you start to view it from the other end
You laughed a lot and had your fun
Now you find there's so much left undone
And ashes to ashes, dust to dust
In your lifetime that's the only rule you've come to trust
And waiting 'round the corner
To put his arms around you
Death comes a'courting and you don't know what to do
And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here
And the new hard times are here

New Hard Times   Mayne Smith and B. Kimmel

Gazos Love Songs: Puddle Of Light

We Have...

                                                  With a Nod to Pogo and Walt Kelly

Gazos Love Songs: Smoke and Mirrors

Gazos Love Songs: Assemblage

Momiji: First Light

Botan: The Moments Notice

Botan: Leaning Right Leaning Left

Botan : Green Straw

Momiji: The Garden of Recurring Dreams