For Carly

A couple of recent block prints I'm hoping to convert into T-shirts at some point...

When I clean crumbs (A Poem)

When I clean crumbs


A dirty pan

the size of my world

and bigger than our sink



I should be cleaning dishes

but sitting in a church pew



Curling water corrals the oil

I press the stubborn crust

against the rising tide



Cleaning the crumbs from my pan

brings back Mama’s tears



Fried corn bread on a Thursday morning

that’s my day

I got to say one grace

and another to myself

“forgive me for swiping the jam”

but God was never fast enough

and I snatch the first piece



That made Mama cry



Fried corn bread on a Thursday morning

doesn’t crumble like Wednesday’s freshly baked

Stiffer

the butter holds

I like it burnt



That made Mama cry



Burnt bread for her babies

The flame could never be controlled

And I never cared if those globs of jam

made her feel better too



I never saw her tears fill the sink

floating crumbs and memories of her Mama



Kentucky corn bread isn’t fried here

but then

I always taste it

when I clean crumbs

from a dirty pan the size of my world

Steelers Lose

My tribute to a good team that fought with a better team on superbowl day.  This is a tussle in charcoal.

The Woodblock Bug

I've caught the woodblock printing bug: a combination of recent research in early modern Asian and Italian Renaissance art. Here's my first incision and print. I'm crazy about this form, a combination of my three favorite mediums: drawing, painting, and sculpting... Its reproducibility is eerily enticing too... Makes me feel exponentially creative (the empowering feeling of art's commodification?). At any rate, I've got the fever. And the only remedy is more cowbell...

Drawing at Centre

I've been sitting in on our local Centre professor Sheldon Tapley's studio sessions. He has been gracious enough to let another artistically-inclined colleague to stretch out his fingers and bludgeon his pencils. It's been fun getting back into figure drawing.

Big Sky Art II

Lone Mountain in all it's Autumn glory... Anyone got a job opening in Big Sky for me?

Big Sky Art

Some new projects commissioned by Mamma. The Montana scenes are done in watercolors and colored pencil and will probably be turned into postcards at some point. Enjoy")