2023-09-04 10:59
I have always regarded manual labour as creative and looked with respect – and, yes, wonder – at people who work with their hands. It seems to me that their creativity is no less… Read More
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Concerning the work of artist GC Myers
2023-09-03 12:01
Time has slipped away this morning. I began looking for a piece of music to play on YouTube and got sucked into a vortex of watching reaction videos of people listening to songs for the firs… Read More
2023-09-02 11:16
A Pirate Looks at 40— GC Myers, 1994
Yes, I am a pirate, two hundred years too lateThe cannons don’t thunder, there’s nothin’ to plunderI’m an over-forty victim… Read More
2023-08-31 11:11
Silent Eye of Night– At Principle Gallery
What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never co… Read More
2023-08-30 10:48
In Radiance— Now at Just Looking Gallery, San Luis Obispo CA
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped o… Read More
2023-08-29 11:27
The Internal Landscape– 2012
Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing becaus… Read More
2023-08-28 12:17
Symphony of Silence– At the West End Gallery
The great OverdogThat heavenly beastWith a star in one eyeGives a leap in the east.He dances uprightAll the way to the westAnd never once d… Read More
2023-08-27 10:58
Riding Rhythm– Now at the Principle Gallery, Alexandria VA
Adventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable resu… Read More
2023-08-26 11:24
Learning to Fly— Now at the West End Gallery
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
–Friedr… Read More
2023-08-25 10:58
Eye in the Sky— At the West End Gallery
Ten Thousand Years’ Play
I got into the ocean and played.I played on the land too.I also played in the sky.I played with the devil’s… Read More
2023-08-24 10:58
Oracle’s Light– At the West End Gallery
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a brid… Read More
2023-08-23 10:58
Moonlight Quartet–West End Gallery Show Ends Tomorrow!
The way a crowShook down on meThe dust of snowFrom a hemlock tree
Has given my heartA change of moodAnd saved some partOf a day… Read More
2023-08-22 11:04
Journey and Light– Show Ends Thursday at West End Gallery!!
Every moment was a precious thing, having in it the essence of finality.
–Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca (1938)
We’r… Read More
2023-08-21 10:42
Maestro— Show Ends Thursday, August 24
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
—Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1949)
My current… Read More
2023-08-20 11:29
Eye to the Future— Shows Ends This Thursday, Aug 24, at West End Gallery
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
–Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers fro… Read More
2023-08-19 11:00
Jubilee- West End Gallery Show Ends Thursday, August 24
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
–Audre Lorde, Conversations with Audre… Read More
2023-08-18 10:42
Student and Master— Now at West End Gallery
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it… Read More
2023-08-17 11:07
“All right,” said the Cheshire Cat; and this time it vanished quite slowly, beginning with the end of the tail, and ending with the grin, which remained some time after the rest… Read More
2023-08-16 11:15
The Heartening Light– At the West End Gallery
When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin t… Read More
2023-08-14 10:34
In the Eye– Now at West End Gallery
The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not… Read More
2023-08-12 11:25
Hope Rises– Win This Painting at the Gallery Talk!!
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
–Pierre Corneille, Le Menteur (The Liar) (1643)
My annual Gallery Talk… Read More
2023-08-11 11:16
Monde Parfait— At West End Gallery
It is a pity indeed to travel and not get this essential sense of landscape values. You do not need a sixth sense for it. It is there if you just clo… Read More
2023-08-10 11:02
Lahaina Waterfront, Maui
It makes no difference where I turnI can’t get over you and the flame still burnsIt makes no difference, night or dayThe shadow never seems to fade awayAnd the… Read More
2023-08-09 10:55
Silent Crossing— At West End Gallery
Unicorns and cannonballsPalaces and piersTrumpets, towers, and tenementsWide oceans full of tearsFlags, rags, ferry boatsScimitars and scarvesEvery… Read More
2023-08-08 10:55
Narrow Passage– At West End Gallery
I have said many times here that I am not a religious person. Oh, I have my own personal beliefs that are both vague and concrete in their formulati… Read More
2023-08-07 11:39
The Steadying Light– At the West End Gallery
We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest… Read More
2023-08-06 11:03
A Private Word— Now at the West End Gallery
There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides h… Read More
2023-08-05 11:28
Eye in the Sky— Title Painting from the West End Gallery show
People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid kn… Read More
2023-08-04 10:57
Garden of Delight– At the West End Gallery
The man of wisdom delights in water; the man of humanity delights in mountains. The man of wisdom is active; the man of humanity is tranquil… Read More
2023-08-03 10:46
Island Getaway— Now at the West End Gallery
Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible; but the world of pure reason knows… Read More
2023-08-02 10:50
Say Hallelujah– At the West End Gallery
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;not in silence, but restraint.
—Silence, Marianne Moore (1887-1972)
I am taking my cues… Read More
2023-08-01 11:21
The Centered Self— Now at the West End Gallery
Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
–… Read More
2023-07-30 11:10
Peace Passage— At the West End Gallery
The proof of apatheia [peacefulness of soul] is had when the spirit begins to see its own light, when it remains in a state of tranquility in the… Read More
2023-07-29 11:28
The Haze of Passage— At the West End Gallery
A Cabin in the Clearing
MISTI don’t believe the sleepers in this houseKnow where they are.
SMOKEThey’ve been here long enoughTo… Read More
2023-07-28 10:36
Learning to Fly— Now at the West End Gallery
Well the good ol’ daysMay not returnAnd the rocks might meltAnd the sea may burn
I’m learning to flyBut I ain’t got wings… Read More
2023-07-27 10:47
Moonlight Quartet— Part of Eye in the Sky at West End Gallery
Spirit of the midnight dream,What is now upon thy wing ?Earth sleeps in the moonlight beam ;O’er that sleep what wil… Read More
2023-07-26 10:45
Maestro— Now at the West End Gallery, Corning
Go forth under the open sky, and listTo Nature’s teachings.
–William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis
I am often asked, especially a… Read More
2023-07-25 10:21
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
–Mark Twain, In Letter (1908)
Had a little excitement yesterday at the studio though I wasn’t pres… Read More
2023-07-24 11:05
A Song For the Eye— At West End Gallery
The melancholy river bears us on. When the moon comes through the trailing willow boughs, I see your face, I hear your voice and the bird singin… Read More
2023-07-23 11:01
Jubilee Waltz– At the West End Gallery
She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.
—Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins… Read More
2023-07-22 11:19
Waiting For the Light– At the West End Gallery
Reality cannot be found except in One single source, because of the interconnection of all things with one another.
–Gottfried Wilh… Read More
2023-07-21 11:10
Eye of Silence— Now at West End Gallery
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
–Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the Humble (1896)
The exhibit Eye i… Read More
2023-07-20 10:50
In the Eye– Now at West End Gallery
The spring without a leaf to toss, bare and bright like a virgin fierce in her chastity, scornful in her purity, was laid out on fields wide-eyed an… Read More
2023-07-19 11:18
Humility– At West End Gallery
“He that has been a servantKnows more than priests and kings,But he that has been an ill servant,He knows all earthly things.
“Pride flings fr… Read More
2023-07-18 11:17
The Elevating Eye— Now at West End Gallery
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment r… Read More
2023-07-17 11:05
Jubilee– Now at the West End Gallery, Corning
The year of jubilee has come;Gather the gifts of Earth with equal hand;Henceforth ye too may share the birthright soil,The corn, the wine… Read More
2023-07-16 11:01
Anticipating Dawn— Now at West End Gallery, Corning, NY
We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation w… Read More
2023-07-15 10:54
Pull of the Moon— At West End Gallery
You know how this is:if I lookat the crystal moon, at the red branchof the slow autumn at my window,if I touchnear the firethe impalpable ashor th… Read More
2023-07-14 11:18
Eye to the Future— Now at West End Gallery
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
–-John Buchan, Address to the people of Canada on the coro… Read More
2023-07-13 10:52
Insula Solitudo— Coming to the West End Gallery
An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancy for b… Read More
2023-07-12 11:08
Student and Master— Soon at West End Gallery
A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and of virtue, will purge the eyes to understand her text. By degrees we may come to know… Read More
2023-07-11 10:40
In the High Country– Coming to West End Gallery
The pause—that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired ef… Read More
2023-07-10 10:49
The Illuminating Eye— Soon at the West End Gallery
The two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients: the one plain and smooth in t… Read More
2023-07-09 11:07
Passages: Toward Order — Part of the West End Gallery Exhibit
It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites-opposite bents, tastes, yearni… Read More
2023-07-08 10:30
Hermitage— Part of the upcoming West End Gallery Show
Silence, solitude, what is more essential to the human condition? “Maternal silence” is what I like to call it. Life b… Read More
2023-07-06 10:31
Eye in the Sky— Coming to the West End Gallery
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
–Jean Genet, The Selected Writings… Read More
2023-07-04 10:40
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
2023-07-01 10:42
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
–Albert Einstein, Letter to his son Eduard (5 February 1930)
While I am still enjoying my hiatus from the blo… Read More
2023-06-26 10:48
Elan Vital– Now at Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious effort.
–Henry D… Read More
2023-06-25 10:46
The Welcome Tree–At the Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
No farther will I travel: once againMy brethren I will see, and that fair plainWhere I and song were born. There fresh-voiced… Read More
2023-06-20 10:37
A Matter of Perspective— At the Principle Gallery
To say that man is a compound of strength and weakness, light and darkness, smallness and greatness, is not to indict him, it is to de… Read More
2023-06-19 11:29
Riding Rhythm– Now at the Principle Gallery
Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.
— James Baldwin, My Dungeon Shook / A… Read More
2023-06-18 10:28
Watched Over— Now at Principle Gallery
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the… Read More
2023-06-16 11:28
Penelope— At the Principle Gallery
The influence of fine scenery, the presence of mountains, appeases our irritations and elevates our friendships.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
Computer… Read More
2023-06-15 10:42
Endless Possibility– Now at Principle Gallery
Listen to Mustn’ts, child, listen to the Don’ts.Listen to the Shouldn’ts, the Impossibles, the Won’ts.Listen… Read More
2023-06-14 10:51
The crows like to insist that a single crow is enough to destroy heaven. This is without doubt, but it says nothing about heaven, because heaven is just another way of saying: the impossibil… Read More
2023-06-13 10:40
Dawn’s Return— Included in Passages at Principle Gallery
I met a young man on the skeleton coastHe was out of his feet and pale as a ghostI asked him his name – he said Laz… Read More
2023-06-12 10:43
And Peace Arrives— Now at the Principle Gallery
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our cond… Read More
2023-06-11 11:08
A Rising Peace— Now at the Principle Gallery, Alexandria
Sophia and Grandmother sat down by the shore to discuss the matter further. It was a pretty day, and the sea was running a long… Read More
2023-06-09 10:34
Three Sides to the Story— Now at Principle Gallery
Let’s look at photographs as food. Does an exhibition leave you hungry or fill you with the visual equivalent of a snack or fea… Read More
2023-06-08 11:00
Passages: Between Then and Now— At Principle Gallery
I wanted to make it as anonymous as a photo. But it was perhaps also the wish for perfection, the unapproachable, which then means… Read More
2023-06-07 10:51
Zenith— 48″ by 30″ on canvas- At Principle Gallery
The moving toward one’s inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high… Read More
2023-06-06 10:47
Hometown Hero— Now at Principle Gallery, Alexandria
Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.
–Ralph Waldo Emer… Read More
2023-06-05 11:00
Let Loose— Now at the Principle Gallery, Alexandria
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life an… Read More
2023-06-04 10:45
Passages: Moving Through— Now at the Principle Gallery
Deep down within the heart there is a stillness which is healing, a trust in the universal laws which is unwavering, and a streng… Read More
2023-06-03 10:20
Soloist– Coming to the Principle Gallery Tomorrow
The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. The… Read More
2023-06-02 10:11
High Point – Coming to Principle Gallery
Here is the test of wisdom,Wisdom is not finally tested in schools,Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having… Read More
2023-06-01 10:10
Playing to the Moon– Coming to Principle Gallery
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness and the ni… Read More
2023-05-31 11:09
Passages: In the Glow— Coming to Principle Gallery
I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My… Read More
2023-05-30 11:02
In Stillness and Rhythm– In the Upcoming Principle Gallery Show
There is a point where in the mystery of existence contradictions meet; where movement is not all movement and stillness… Read More
2023-05-29 10:38
Like a great many of you out there, I have not had to experience the hardships of war firsthand. It remains something to see from a distance, on the television or in movies. Terrifying and… Read More
2023-05-28 10:25
Some folks inherit star-spangled eyesHoo, they send you down to war, LordAnd when you ask ’em, “How much should we give?”Hoo, they only answer, “More, more, more, mo… Read More
2023-05-26 11:11
Peak Solitude— At Principle Gallery Show, June 2023
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come… Read More
2023-05-25 10:33
Tina Turner on the Eiffel Tower/ Photo by Peter Lindbergh, 1989
And you know what I say to people who ask, “What do you do when all the odds are against you?” I say, “You k… Read More
2023-05-24 11:18
Time Passage— Coming to Principle Gallery, June 2023
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the… Read More
2023-05-23 11:18
Archaeology: The Past Comes Forward– Soon at Principle Gallery
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
–William… Read More
2023-05-22 11:05
Imitatio– At the West End Gallery
My rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the othe… Read More
2023-05-21 11:25
Silent Eye of Night– Coming to Principle Gallery
Let’s take a ride to the easy plateauWhere the cold don’t come and the wind don’t blowMoonlight flickers on the water… Read More
2023-05-19 10:27
Passages: New Worlds Revealed— Soon at Principle Gallery
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other… Read More
2023-05-18 10:49
Yves Tanguy – Indefinite Divisibility 1942
I found that if I planned a picture beforehand, it never surprised me, and surprises are my pleasure in painting.
–Yves Tanguy
The post… Read More
2023-05-17 10:39
Silent Dusk– At the West End Gallery
We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.
–… Read More
2023-05-16 11:00
Tempus Quietis— Coming to Principle Gallery, June 2023
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as… Read More
2023-05-15 10:20
Breaking Joy— Coming to Principle Gallery, June Show 2023
The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remai… Read More
2023-05-14 10:41
In the Window: Flower of Doreen, 2005
I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
–E. M. Forster, Howards End
Just a brief post today to w… Read More
2023-05-13 10:48
To have a sacred place is an absolute necessity for anybody today. You must have a room or a certain hour of the day or so, where you do not know who your friends are, you don’t know… Read More
2023-05-12 11:06
Crescendo– Coming to Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
Sometimes I sit, sometimes I stareSometimes they look and I don’t careRarely I weep, sometimes I mustI’m wounded by d… Read More
2023-05-11 11:12
Force Natural— Coming to the Principle Gallery, June 2023
My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things — trout as well as eter… Read More
2023-05-10 10:51
GC Myers- Blaze, 2014
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
–Frederick Douglass
Amplified consequence.
In his 1892 essay, Lynch Law in… Read More
2023-05-09 11:02
Endless Possibility– Coming to Principle Gallery in June
George Gray
I have studied many timesThe marble which was chiseled for me–A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.I… Read More
2023-05-08 10:40
GC Myers- The Sky Doesn’t Pity, 1995
Competitions are for horses, not artists.
–Bela Bartok
The quote above from Hungarian composer Bela Bartok pretty much sums up my feelings ab… Read More
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