Coffee

When I get a good swirling vortex going while stirring my coffee, then add a thin stream of almond milk, this is what happens when everything settles down. Art.

Ducts

Every day at work, something new is torn up or ripped open or covered in tarps or blocked off. Sometimes it's annoying, like the morning I had to go down to the basement and across the building just to get to the 3rd floor, because access from the lobby was blocked off. They pulled down huge sections of the lobby ceiling tiles, exposing layers of duct work and metal mesh, and under it all, the corbelled concrete ceiling. It's really kind of beautiful.

58F

That's kind of miserable, when you're sitting at a computer.

62F

The steam is off to the entire building. No hot water, and NO HEAT. ALL WEEK. Which wouldn't seem like a problem, given that it's the end of May, but it is goddamn freezing in here, yo. I brought yoghurt for breakfast and can't even eat it, because I am a popsicle and eating something cold sounds like a really bad idea. Ugh. So instead I'm sucking down coffee as fast as I can.

Ray Charles Is God

Graduate Carrel, East Tower, 6th Floor

The Good Times Are Killing Me

Graduate Carrel, East Tower, 8th Floor

My Wishing Heart

Glass eye
Lazy sky
Another lucky star
Comet's wings
And twisted strings
Wake my wishing heart

Metamora 1981

Clayborne Street, looking East


Sugar Loaf


Waterfall by the Grist Mill

Kitchen Window 1981

Inspiration Wall

In the Sun

Buck

I have been going through some old photos. This one was taken around 1982. Buck was a Shetland Pony x Quarter Horse. He was also 100% asshole. I have a long history of adoring animals with personality disorders.

Gangster

This guy is brazen. He lives in a drainage pipe under the fir tree, and he's used to holding his own with the feral cats at their food dish. He's slightly respectful of Franny, but he's not at all afraid of people. My neighbor has had to physically shove him out of the cats' food.

The Sky Flown Down

The sky
flown down
to earth
A delirious storm crush
Sent
to swallow me
whole



And then it did.

Iris

Columbine (Rose Barlow)

Raspberry Blossoms

Egg Shell Girl

Egg shell girl
Skinned in pearl
Rowing out to sea
Fishing for hope
And drunken ghosts
And a tiny secret dream

Iphigenia Series

Now I am confounded in all things.


What things fit so perfectly inside this moment?


These stately ships over the see
Will live in memory.


Listen to me, listen.
You have dared a fearful thing.


With what gladness
Terrible enough
to break my heart?


Wishes
They stand close
to the brink of grief.


Well, what is that star
That moves across the sky?


These, our ships --
With their
Mother
wings


Is not this sorrow
My grave
and my monument?


My spirit.
facing the light
And alive.

All of these are about 4 1/2 x 6 inches.

Old Photos

Hostas in the Sun

Wild Geranium

Columbine

Working

I've been spending my mini-staycation trying to get some collage work done. I have not been very productive, but I haven't been totally useless, either. It's just slow going.

Somewhere in there I got distracted reading Euripides. I don't even know how that happens?! So the little series I've been working on all have text taken from him, mostly from Iphigenia in Aulis. If you've never read it, I recommend at least looking at Clytemnestra's bits about her abduction by Agamemnon and on evilness of war. Beautiful and heart-breaking.

Piglet and Franny

Asbestos Abatement

At least I assume they're removing asbestos. The entire center of the lobby is enclosed in a double wall of plastic. Charming, isn't it.



One lane of traffic. I was tempted to turn around and go back home.

Card Catalog

Herman B Wells Library 5E

Scrolls in the Tibetan Collection

Herman B Wells Library 9E

Locust Tree Blossoms

Locust Tree Blossoms

As I walked across campus this afternoon, I kept catching hints of some flower on the breeze. I finally realized it was coming from the trees. And the funny thing is that I had the same experience a few years ago, at a nearby cemetery. There was something in bloom that smelled amazing, but I couldn't figure out what it was. I finally tracked it down to a locust tree growing behind the church.

Lunch

We had an all-day in-house conference at work today. Aside from the miniature books at the Lilly, it was grim. It started at 8am with coffee but NO breakfasty food whatsoever. Not even a damn granola bar.

We got lunch. Vinegary artichoke heart veggie wrap and some kind of gooey pasta with gooey sauce. It was all kinds of awful. Well, except that lunch was long enough that I had a chance to visit the cemetery by the student union. That part was nice.

(The apple was really good! And the brownie was okay. So many carbs, though.)

Miniature Books

Miniature books at the Lilly Library.

Art Museum

Angles upon angles.

Showalter Fountain

Showalter Fountain, The Birth of Venus

Jordan River

Drystone Wall and Jordan River


Bridge Over Jordan River


Jordan River