Joy in the Dance— At West End Gallery With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow—I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honor… Read More

The Natural— At West End Gallery “Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, p… Read More

Poster for the Antifascist Olympics1936 The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part; the important thing in Life is not triumph, but the struggle; the essential… Read More

Persistent Rhythm now open at West End Gallery The writer must be four people: 1. The nut, the obsédé2. The moron3. The stylist4. The critic 1 supplies the material; 2 lets it… Read More

New Day Rising– Now at West End Gallery In private places, among sordid objects, an act of truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle… Read More

And the River Flows– At the West End Gallery To laugh often and much; to win the respect of the intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest cri… Read More

Releasing the Fire— Included in Persistent Rhythm at West End Gallery We cannot control the Future by fearing it, howe’er much we may believe we do so. Anticipation and Worry are… Read More

The Omnipresence— Now at West End Gallery The conceptions which developing science gives of the grandeur of creation, as well as the constancy and irresistibleness of its Omnipresent C… Read More

Time Patterns– Now at West End Gallery Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It consists… Read More

Between the Sea and the Sun— Now at West End Gallery Grandfather, Great Spirit, you have been always, and before you no one has been. There is no other one to pray to but you. You your… Read More

Anywhere Everywhere— Now at the West End Gallery I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O… Read More

Passing Through Blue– Now at West End Gallery May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland. –Virgil, Georgics (29 B… Read More

Treasure Moon– At West End Gallery If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. –Henry Davi… Read More

Under the Compass– Now at West End Gallery Inward is not a direction.  Inward is a dimension. -Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev This is a new piece from my show, Persistent Rhythm, that ope… Read More

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I did my best, it wasn’t muchI couldn’t feel, so I tried to touchI’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool yaAnd even though it all went wrongI’ll stand before… Read More

Infinity’s Call– Coming to West End Gallery Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and… Read More

Wassily Kandinsky- Blue (1927) The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural. Th… Read More

Childe Hassam- Rainy Day, Fifth Ave 1916 And I don’t know a soul who’s not been batteredI don’t have a friend who feels at easeI don’t know a dream that’s not b… Read More

Continuum: The Red Tree at 25 is in its final days at the Principle Gallery. It is a show that has a lot of meaning for me, one that I believe deserves to be seen. If you’re in the DC/… Read More

Affirmation— Now at Principle Gallery It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be or… Read More

Call of the Blue Moon–At Principle Gallery, Alexandria When the sun goes down here and darkness fallsThe blanket of winter leaves no light at allYou search for shelter to calm the stor… Read More

On the Blue Side— Included in Continuum: The Red Tree at 25 We’re in the last week of my annual exhibit at the Principle Gallery. This year’s edition marks my 25th solo sho… Read More

Echoes of Time— At Principle Gallery What an abyss of uncertainty, whenever the mind feels overtaken by itself; when it, the seeker, is at the same time the dark region through which i… Read More

Shine– At Principle Gallery Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it.Whoever has polished it more sees more… Read More

Niche– At Principle Gallery, Alexandria “As he was about to climb yet another dune, his heart whispered, “Be aware of the place where you are brought to tears. That’s… Read More

Blaze— Now at Principle Gallery Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all thing… Read More

The Heart Warms— Now at Principle Gallery, Alexandria The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in… Read More

All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. –Blaise Pascal, Pensées  A Time to Listen– At Principle Gallery… Read More

Deep Right Field– Now at Principle Gallery  “If somebody came up and hit .450, stole 100 bases, and performed a miracle in the field every day, I’d still look you righ… Read More

Shoot the Moon— At Principle Gallery So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for… Read More

Back in the studio again this morning after the opening of Continuum: The Red Tree at 25, at the Principle Gallery on Friday evening. The work looked just as I had hoped on the gallery walls… Read More

Come the Brightening— At Principle Gallery The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind wi… Read More

Comes a Wind— Now at Principle Gallery That man’s best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature’s infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make h… Read More

Flame Feeding Flame— At the Principle Gallery I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not… Read More

One Way or Another– At Principle Gallery Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endu… Read More

The Enlightening— Now at Principle Gallery, Alexandria All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edifica… Read More

Follow the River— At Principle Gallery Today! Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. —Hero… Read More

Idyllica– Part of Continuum: The Red Tree at 25 at Principle Gallery Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility – a blend often desired in later days of ho… Read More

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. —Alexander Graham Bell, Bell Telephone Talk (1901) In the final days an… Read More

Proclaim the Day— Coming Soon to Principle Gallery By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes–a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. ― E. M. Forster, A Room with a… Read More

Land Alive– In Continuum at Principle Gallery, June 14 Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cann… Read More

Watchful Presence– Part of Continuum at Principle Gallery, June14 Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the pres… Read More

Time Reverberation— Included in Continuum: The Red Tree at 25 Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that… Read More

Diamond in the Moonlight– Coming to Principle Gallery, June 14 Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within th… Read More

First Peace (Wakan-Tanka)— Coming to Principle Gallery, June 2024 The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their r… Read More

Anchor- Soon at Principle Gallery, Alexandria Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly s… Read More

Another Memorial Day weekend. The day we remember our fallen soldiers, those who gave their lives to serve and protect this country, this democracy. I’m no historical anthropologist so… Read More

Something Beyond– Coming to Principle Gallery, June 2024 “Even in your hobbies, has there not always been some secret attraction which the others are curiously ignorant of–… Read More

Night’s Dream— Coming to Principle Gallery, June 2024 The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve;Lovers, to bed; ’tis almost fairy time. –William Shakespeare, A Mid… Read More

American Art Collector Show Preview, June 2024 Issue Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. –… Read More

Comes a Time– Coming to Principle Gallery Alexandria Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in… Read More

Held By the Moon-– Coming to Principle Gallery, June But if you build your life on dreams it’s prudent to recall; a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all. &mda… Read More

On the Blue Side— Included in “Continuum: The Red Tree at 25“, Opening June 14 at Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA I once wrote a short story called ‘The Best Blues… Read More

Follow the Heart— Coming to Principle Gallery, June 2024 Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone… Read More

Farewell, my dearest sister, fare thee well:The elements be kind to thee, and makeThy spirits all of comfort! Fare thee well. –William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra Lousy day yest… Read More

In Eminence— Coming to Principle Gallery, June I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation. —George Bernard Shaw, preface to The Irrational Knot (19… Read More

David Levine– Thomas Hoving To appreciate a work of art, is it okay to like what you like, and the heck with the art critics and experts? Absolutely. –Thomas Hoving I came across… Read More

Call of the Blue Moon– Coming to Principle Gallery, June 2024 He who Doubts from what he seesWill neer Believe do what you Please If the Sun & Moon should Doubt They’d immedi… Read More

String theory has the potential to show that all of the wondrous happenings in the universe – from the frantic dance of subatomic quarks to the stately waltz of orbiting binary stars;… Read More

Echoes of Time— Coming to Principle Gallery I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absu… Read More

Inner Perception, 2011 And the sky is black and still nowOn the hill where the angels singAin’t it funny how an old broken bottleLooks just like a diamond ringBut it’s far, far f… Read More

When I am finishing a picture I hold some God-made object up to it–a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand– as a kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a… Read More

Moon Listening— At West End Gallery The day was when I did not keep myself in readiness for thee;and entering my heart unbidden even as one of the common crowd,unknown to me, my king… Read More

The Welcome Tree–At the West End Gallery Between two worlds life hovers like a star,‘Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.How little do we know that which we are!… Read More

RedTree: Stand Tall— Coming to Principle Gallery, June Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth. – Archimedes This quote is actually a condensed and long accep… Read More

He knows all about art, but he doesn’t know what he likes. –James Thurber I am fully immersed in work for my June show at the Principle Gallery right now. I need to get to a lar… Read More

GC Myers- Chaos & Light I believe that the fundamental alternative for man is the choice between “life” and “death”; between creativity and destructive violence;… Read More

A New Cornucopia– At West End Gallery By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders there… Read More

Passages: Toward Order — At Principle Gallery Here’s my creed, against Benjamin’s. This is what I believe: ‘That I am I.’‘That my soul is a dark forest.&r… Read More

RedTree: Continuum— Coming to Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA In this dark and wounded society, writing can give you the pleasures of the woodpecker, of hollowing out a hole in a tre… Read More

In the High Country– At West End Gallery Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explor… Read More

Pablo Picasso- Guernica, 1937 Artists who live and work with spiritual values cannot and should not remain indifferent to a conflict in which the highest values of humanity and civilization… Read More

I Don’t Feel So Good–Darwin’s First Mardi Gras, 1994 Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief… Read More

To a Higher Mount— At West End Gallery The world is an illusion, but it is an illusion which we must take seriously, because it is real as far as it goes, and in those aspects of the r… Read More

Be not blind, but open-eyed, to the great wonders of Nature, familiar, everyday objects though they be to thee. But men are more wont to be astonished at the sun’s eclipse than at his… Read More

Soloist– At Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities.  A possibility i… Read More

Vincent van Gogh, Irises, 1890 The task is…not so much to see what no one has yet seen; but to think what nobody has yet thought, about that which everybody sees. ― Erwin Schr&o… Read More

Pablo Picasso- Harlequin with Glass, 1905 How often have I found that wanting to use blue,I didn’t have it so I used a red instead of the blue. –Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso is pr… Read More

Van Gogh- Prisoners Exercisng Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I should simply recognize, learning a mere fraction… Read More

Alberto Giacometti- Walking Man I Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won’t know what it is until I succeed in… Read More

Pondering Blue– At Principle Gallery As wave is driven by waveAnd each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,Always, for ever and new. What… Read More

Exiles: Martyr, 1996 Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person’s worth and the eternity of his or her life, that… Read More

Obstacles Isn’t it strange how princes and kings,and clowns that caper in sawdust rings,and common people, like you and me,are builders for eternity? Each is given a list of rules;a sh… Read More

Merit Badge — At Principle Gallery The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has… Read More

Riding Rhythm– At West End Gallery All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. —Martin Buber, The Legend of the Baal-Shem (1955) I’ve been think… Read More

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief. –Rumi I am hoping this is the case. M… Read More

Coolway— At West End Gallery Mama take this badge from meI can’t use it anymoreIt’s getting dark too dark to seeFeels like I’m knockin’ on Heaven’s door … Read More

Silent Crossing– At Principle Gallery All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. And even then, on the rare occasions when something opens within, and the musi… Read More

Nightbloom— At West End Gallery All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. –Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther,  1774 One of t… Read More

Constantin Brancusi- The Kiss One day in Switzerland, in front of a beautiful mountain there was the most beautiful of cows, and she was contemplating me in ecstasy. I said to myself,&rdqu… Read More

In the Light of Stillness— At Principle Gallery Being is not a steady state but an occulting one: we are all of us a succession of stillness blurring into motion on the wheel of action… Read More

Faraway Near– At Principle Gallery 30th Anniversary Exhibit A fugitive does not hide himself in a maze. He does not build himself a labyrinth on a bluff overlooking the sea, a crimson… Read More

Icons: Mary T. Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes togetherI’ve got some real estate here in my bag”So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner piesAnd walked… Read More

In sorrow a beautiful songLives in the heart and sings for allYour forgivenessInside the digital mindA homeless soul ponders the codeOf forgiveness –Paul Simon, Your Forgiveness I wok… Read More

Pondering Blue- At Principle Gallery Pooh gave a little cough and began. LINES WRITTEN BY A BEAR OF VERY LITTLE BRAIN On Monday, when the sun is hotI wonder to myself a lot:“Now… Read More

Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not gather’d in their primeRot and consume themselves in little time. &ndas… Read More

Winterglide— At West End Gallery True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil hi… Read More

If a little day-dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. –Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past I don’t mind Day… Read More

The Elevating Eye— At West End Gallery Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth’s green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of spring: in… Read More