I find myself still thinking about it weeks later. Clint Bentley, the director, has shared that Tarkovsky was a major inspiration, which makes a lot of sense: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODeg...
Could we with ink the ocean fill,
And were the skies of parchment made;
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry;
Nor could the scroll contain the whole,
Though stretched from sky to sky.
Sharing some Doris Mae Akers from a few years back. #gospelmusic
Three skinny horizontal format designs from 2014, 2025 and 2015.
An installation I made in 2013 for the Lenten season at Lombard Mennonite Church. An olive trunk was raised up by a single, unbroken cotton string a mile long. Strips of recycled newspapers became the weft in an irregular loom. It grew and changed week to week. #installationart #weaving
Some Greek boustrophedonic lettering with a bit of overlaid piano and vocals. #wip #firsthymn #listen
Throwback 2023: “Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate!” The prompt was Hell-vetica. I set Dante’s famous quote in Christian Schwartz’s (better than Helvetica) Neue Haas Grotesk, laser burned it in a block of wood and set it in the fire pit. #dante #helvetica #lasercutting #inferno #typography
Last November, I took a jaunt at my grandparents' old farm. The setting sun was strong and golden and Wendell Berry's poem IX from "Leavings" came to mind. Later we got together with my old friend Bryce Alan Flurie and had a bit of a gospel grass hoedown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD2O...
Dear iPhone autocorrect: Someday I may want to type the word Sudan, but in the meantime, my wife's name is Susan.
A video I made five years ago for Lent. I played musical fragments on piano & accordion from: Sofia Gubaidulina's Sieben Worte, While I Keep Silence by David Wright and Jim Clemens, and the spiritual I Want Jesus to Walk with Me. The visual is sugar dropping onto a large sheet of black paper.
Happy 100th Birthday György Kurtag! Here are some wonderful miniatures for double bass released just today, played with extraordinary expression by Knut Erik Sundquist and pianist Nils Anders Mortensen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLl9...
Robert Duvall's independent passion project "The Apostle." So full of extraordinary scenes, dialog, characters... rich as a Flannery O'Connor short story. As good as film gets, in my humble opinion. Rest in peace, good and faithful artist.
Together, we are America (with the Puerto Rican flag more clearly referenced). A good reminder from Bad Bunny yesterday.
Together! Made with Big Shoulders, Chicago’s official typeface.
A good reminder, Mr Bunny.
My grandfather Charlie Bonner shocking wheat with his Dad driving the team of horses (ca 1933), and on the right 80ish years later with the John Deere that did the same job. I think I still remember how to tie a shock with a handful of stalks hooked together, which he showed me when I was a kid.
Just discovered this great drone footage of my grandparents’ old farm in Lewisberry PA, shot by Adam Vogelsong. I painted all those buildings—standing seam roofs and all!—with my brother one summer.
I walked a drawing on the frozen lake yesterday thinking about Shirley Erena Murray's hymn "Forgive, Forgive Us"
Forgive us that our souls are numb
to scenes of terror, screams of pain...
the hearts to ache for justice's sake
the will to stand where Jesus stood.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Bt...
A wonderful poster by Luba Lukova. #immigrantswelcomehere
Norman Dello Joio and Miscanthus dimensions Gracillimus (maiden grass).
Sweet Hour of Prayer. Playing along with my grandfather on his mother's 1893 Weaver pump organ. #pumporgan #harmonica #parlororgan #hymn
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A few works from my freshman and sophomore year at RISD in the early 90s. A miniature painting in a class I took with Shahzia Sikander, self portrait in sketchbook, and a gouache painting with oil transfer drawing (Paul Klee’s technique).
A poster I made. Typeface is Big Shoulders designed by Patricking of xotypeco for the city of Chicago. I altered it a bit and added a manicule.
Favorite scene in Rob Reiner’s “Stand By Me.” #standbyme #robreiner
