new work

in the garden with gustav

the more things change...



a painter
in a garden
with a cat or two
or more
wearing a flowing
robe
every day.












Paradise.


Two books i use in the classroom:

Silver, Gold, and Precious Stones, "Adventures in Art" series


Klimt and His Cat, Berenice Capatti and Shannon White, with lush artwork by Octavia Monaco


Other gorgeous resources for mature audiences, i should probably note, are:
the beautiful Flash site, iklimt.com and in my library: Gustav Klimt, 22 Masterworks by Jane Kallir.



If you have never stood before a real Klimt before, you must.


Homage to Klimt
from the art room,
kid-visions of "cat parties."
Vielen Dank, Gustav.

summer stock

the sweet sound of the absence
of an alarm
for two blessed months

can hardly be
described.
hours are marked instead by

uncaged glory



guarding cornbread



cultivating perfect squash



taking note of small vignettes



not looked at closely
for a long time



fishing for fake lobster



wondering
which comes first, art or life



pondering
yellow gangs,





the beauty of a lost bloom.

odyssey

od·ys·sey (d-s)
n. pl. od·ys·seys
1. An extended adventurous voyage or trip.
2. An intellectual or spiritual quest

These fashion dreams, they never end.
In sleep, my collections fill huge showrooms.
When you walk in, you can hardly see, for the
blinding flash of glitz
on the outfits.

When i was little, the dream went like so:
opening my closet door, i enter and can't choose an
ensemble to save my life; i lose my breath at
the sight of an endless rack of fabulous looks,
the next more exotically beautiful
than the one before,
they just go
on and on,
till infinity, all contained within that
little closet.

I awaken, go back to the beginning:
transform trash into art-handbags and totes.
Re-cycle, re-dream, recreate.
To the trashion, born.

"Every seed is awakened, and all animal life."
-Sitting Bull

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