A friend in St Louis makes works that consider the front and backs of her embroideries, sometimes making large abstract paintings based on the backs: www.instagram.com/p/CfwOYfBuj5...

... and the painted illustrations of Alice & Martin Provensen, a few here from their 1984 book "The Glorious Flight" about Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel. One of my favorites, the Provensens won the Caldecott for this beautiful little book.

The painted stills recalled for me some of Philip Guston's early works, like his recently restored 1935 Mexican mural "The Struggle Against Terrorism (Fascism and War)" with Reuben Kadish, and "Martial Memory" from 1941. #PhilipGuston

Beautiful color

The first time I saw this in action was a revelation… but also so obvious, simple and elegant.

I'm donating half of the proceeds to Watermelon Sisters, a Chicago-based nonprofit providing humanitarian aid to Gaza through art and mental health therapy (watermelonsisters.org/gallery/). The 8x10" prints fit nicely in a standard 11x14" frame. I made about fifty of them.

The full video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWlf...

And where I breathe there is no death, and meadows glow with beauties rife. I am in all, the spirit's breath, the thundered word, for I am Life.

I am that great and fiery force, sparkling in everything that lives; in shining of the river's course, in greening grass that glory gives.

I shine in glitter on the seas, in burning sun, in moon and stars. In unseen wind, in verdant trees. I breathe within, both near and far.

literally 🙃