It occurred to me to share pen & marker (or pen & pastel) drawings I tend to do after dinner in front of the television. I do euro style dates out of habit from when I was in diarylike comm...
2021-04-15 18:32:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is raw read number #2 from my working title book, Diary of a Yogi. The entry is from April 8th, I have been writing every day since February 13th.
Thank you, Manuel, for your comment on ...
2021-04-14 01:50:31 +0000 UTC View Post
I just pitched a gallery, moments ago, inquiring if they would like to see the plans for my awakening series, which begins with the Petals sketch here (shedding petals of emotional body gunk) and t...
2021-04-11 18:35:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I hope this isn't true but this may be the only photograph I can find of this painting, Gabriel and the Train, which was sold at my first major solo show at Watts Towers Center. The reason I though...
2021-04-06 21:58:22 +0000 UTC View Post
A friend sent a poem this morning dedicated to the painter R.B. Kitaj, and his work reminded me of this painting I did last year inspired by a morning in Bangkok, and the colors in the painting fel...
2021-04-02 16:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This story popped into mind when a friend said yesterday that the world will never be the same again, and of course this is true, as change is the only thing we can count on. But this story, which ...
2021-04-01 04:31:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the painting a week and a day later from the last post of it's beginning. Two years ago today was the opening of my retrospective show, Paintrospective, and there is the bittersweetness of ...
2021-03-30 21:43:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Instead of my usual Cathedral-of-the-Trees hike in the glorious mountains where I hear Julie Andrews singing,The Hills are aive with the sound of music!, I painted. I wanted to work on the beginnin...
2021-03-22 17:42:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Another from my Vivaldi Music Book of Artist Dates I took myself on: Agnes Martin retrospective at LACMA. I not only love her work but love the philosophy in which she lived. She built her house in...
2021-03-17 21:38:04 +0000 UTC View Post
A few years ago, I remembered Julia Cameron's words in The Artists Way about taking yourself out on an Artist Date. I have a Vivaldi Music Book of Magnicat, containing records of my artist dates. T...
2021-03-16 18:00:46 +0000 UTC View Post
On this rainy morning, when my wall heater isn't working, the house is cold, and so I am working, writing in bed, I thought I would share one of the paintings I wake up to, and is in view when I do...
2021-03-15 18:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This film teaser I appear in was made by The Ralph J. Bunch Center for African American Studies at UCLA. It features as well, the late great Wanda Coleman, who has been coming up in posts and liter...
2021-03-10 03:03:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to you all, I have been twice as productive as a writer and a painter, and I just wanted to read to you, at the same time that I read to myself, the first page of Diary of A Yogi. Of c...
2021-03-06 21:28:52 +0000 UTC View Post
On this rainy day morning, with a fire going in the fireplace (it's cold inside!) I have this painting in progress. I want to start making short videos reading to you the pages-in-progress on the b...
2021-03-03 18:34:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't know if this painting is finished, it hangs over the television so I see it prominently every day, and mom hated it. This morning when Imogen sent me a photograph of James Baldwin in Durham...
2021-02-26 18:37:32 +0000 UTC View Post
This painting "Kevin" was done many years ago but I got a text this morning from the buyer saying they wanted it and they wanted it "Now." So the morning was all about packing up and shipping to Ne...
2021-02-25 01:50:32 +0000 UTC View Post
As I have begun the regimen of writing about my spiritual life, to egg myself on in materializing this as a book, I created a dummy cover in all of 15 minutes, by photographing a corner of a Danish...
2021-02-17 19:17:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I was grabbing Getty Images of me the other day to post on IG, which reminded me that the Getty has a little comic book of mine in their Ron Athey archive collection, entirled The Adventures of Ron...
2021-02-12 23:48:45 +0000 UTC View Post
I just wanted to share with you the "Be-attiudes" I wrote for myself some years ago, and try to follow:
BE THE POWER OF PEACE
BE THE POWER OF CREATIVITY 2021-02-09 15:45:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Inspired by last Easter with a dear friend who played Julius Eastman's "The Holy Presence of Joan of Arc" during our sweet celebration, I decided back then that I would do a painting of Joan throug...
2021-02-05 21:08:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This story, The Elephant Talker, was recorded for Stay.Home.Stories and has a much nicer looking video thumbnail on their Facebook and Instagram sites, but I wanted to have it in my collection, as ...
2021-02-04 21:09:16 +0000 UTC View Post
The painting above, Spartacus and Debra, was a commission done in the early '90s,(also, the painting below) done for the same people who have commissioned me to paint them and their extended family...
2021-02-04 01:41:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I am extremely grateful for your support. It means the world to me. I launched here on January 12th, so it hasn't yet been a month but already your support has seemed to double my creativity as wel...
2021-02-02 00:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post
The gallerist for my solo retrospective "Paintrospective" in 2019 wanted to include this series of sketchbook watercolors I did inspired by lines in the bible's Song of Solomon, but I thought they ...
2021-02-01 01:13:39 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a rainy day in California, a blessing for all life, and inspires me to anticipate the spring flowers, as well as to post here the flower pants I painted. If ever you are inspired to get painte...
2021-01-29 17:57:07 +0000 UTC View Post
One of my favorite painters is Gerard Richter, particularly when he painted a series of realism portraits of actual photographs of family members, friends, etc. The moments he chose were never typi...
2021-01-28 00:08:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This story was commissioned by the Broad Museum for their Summer Happenings in August 2017. I performed the story at the Broad with accompaniment by composer/musican David Harrow, who played ...
2021-01-26 02:25:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Greg Tate, the leader of the band Burnt Sugar Arkestra ( Tate is also a well-known writer and cultural critic, if you have watched any recent jazz docs you have likely seen him) asked me to write a...
2021-01-23 21:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This morning I was delighted to find a DM on Instagram from a reader who said she was so happy to have found me there on IG because my novel DIVE is one of her "alltime favorites" and that I am an ...
2021-01-21 18:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post
At any one time, I have about four or five works-in-progress, playing musical chairs on the easel, walls or floor. My Sunday hiking partner saw this piece on the easel and blurted out, Vulva!, then...
2021-01-20 04:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post