woman and skeleton

one of my favorite paintings...

Albert York, Woman and Skeleton, 1968


Oil on canvas mounted on masonite


12 x 11 inches

darling dust

DUST

by C. K. Williams

Face powder, gunpowder, talcum of anthrax,

shavings of steel, crematoria ash, chips

of crumbling poetry paper—all these in my lockbox,

and dust, tanks, tempests, temples of dust.

Saw-, silk-, chalk-dust and chaff,

the dust the drool of a bull swinging its head

as it dreams its death

slobs out on; dust even from the scoured,

scraped littoral of the Aegean,

troops streaming screaming across it

at those who that day, that age or forever

would be foe, worthy of being dust for.

Last, hovering dust of the harvest, brief

as the half-instant hitch in the flight

of the hawk, as the poplets of light

through the leaves of the bronzing maples.

Animal dust, mineral, mental, all hoarded

not in the jar of sexy Pandora, not

in the ark where the dust of the holy aspiring

to congeal as glorious mud-thing still writhes—

just this leathery, crackled, obsolete box,

heart-sized or brain, rusted lock shattered,

hinge howling with glee to be lifted again . . .

Face powder, gunpowder, dust, darling dust.

sepia

photos taken with the sepia camera app on my phone

ever after install

my sculpture installed at the chapel of the chimes in oakland as part of the ever after show.

photos copyright 2011, scott mayoral

glass cactus

hello!

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building small things

(image sources here)

alexandra bircken

alexandra bircken: think of me at kimmerich

so excited to come across new work by this artist- i've been a fan for a long time!