The Temple of Dendur

Sketch from a visit to the Metropolitan in September.
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And a headdress copied from a textbook on Egyptian art.

Assemble-a-Story : Excerpts

found postcard

found between the pages of Clea (Lawrence Durrell) in a used bookstore

the cathedral in Milan

On the roof, looking south.

a very old musical instrument

Blind contour drawing of a violoncello, ca. 1650.
In a museum in Florence, whose name I've forgotten.

Tate Modern, fall 2007

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MoMA, spring 2008

I'd never seen this piece by Wilhelm Lehmbruck before, and found it very compelling.






















No matter how many times I see Giacometti, I never get tired of him.






















Olafur Eliasson's exhibit was called "Take your time"; here is our view of a fan whirling freeling in the atrium, which we watched from a leisurely view on the couches.

Visiting the Berkshires

City of Peace : a Shaker village in Hancock, Massachusetts.

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Illustration Friday : Sugary

The Victor Immanuel II monument, in Rome, is a tiered and sugar-coated cake.

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The Morgan Library, last spring

A show of Irving Penn portraits.









Irving Penn was one of the very first artists who I fell in love with, circa fifth grade. He came in the same wave (to me) as Imogen Cunningham, Alfred Stieglitz, and Edward Steichen.



And here is one-forth of a page of the Ramsey Psalter Fragment, ca1300-1310, London.

Illustration Friday : Packed

The sky in Milan is full of saints, sentries, theologians, angels--hundreds of people balanced on tapering towers, facing outwards at the city from the cathedral.


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I still miss my lost umbrella.

Italy, summer 2005 : Paestum

Excerpt from a contact sheet

Italy, summer 2005
35mm, black and white, SLR

Homesick for Colorado

Illustration Friday : Clique

John the Baptist:

An outside member to the standard New Testament clique, though later effectively absorbed.

in the "Battistero", Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa


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Medium Format Enjoyment

Illustration Friday : Routine

Altered detail of Baltazar de Echave Orio's painting, The Magnificat. (A daily routine, in the Book of Common Prayer's Order for Evening Prayer.)















"My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior;
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.
From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.
He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.
He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.
He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.
He has come to the help of his servant Israel,
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
The promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children for ever."

A visit to the Denver Art Museum

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Crowns of some saints in Niccolo di Pietro's Madonna and Child with the Saints.


Frame of the Master of San Miniato's Madonna and Child with Angels.


A detail of the bottom of a painted frame : the Master of San Miniato's Madonna and Child with Angels.


A detail from the bottom of a painted frame : Bernardino Pintoricchio's Madonna with Blessing Child.


Watchtower; earthenware with green glaze; the Han Dynasty, 206 BCE - 220 CE.

Present to a friend : "To Our Alimentary Deity"

The scan is a little gray--the background is actually a light green, and the colors are a little richer in person. A 2D construction of paper on paper, with ink and Prismacolors.







Wrapped and ready.