Monthly Archives: August 2023

Print

Teddy in Purple

Finding the right color for a personality can be easy as pink for Sweetie or as hard as lime green for Hank. Teddy is getting the royal purple treatment. Here he is in everything from blue-purple to red-violet. It has been a great experience inventing this series and Teddy is the fourth suit in the deck.

There are at least 13 of these 5×8 prints and a couple of artist proofs. (also some seconds with too much carving chatter for my taste).

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Poetry

Nine Nights on Prednisone

The great sin of my life
Was committed out of greed.
Because I wanted it.
I lied to all of us about it.
Dressed the lie up in glittering raiment
To disguise its petty nature.
Called it Love.
But it could not last.
It could not hold.
No plan was forged in the long nights.
No sacrifice on my side
To offset the gains I lusted for.

And so I lost,
Our way.

I stumbled over miles and acres,
Tore flesh and clothing
on rocks and brambles
And psychic snags.
Fell full-faced into debt-sodden mud,
Caked and sticky for decades.
Lost my shoes and then the path.

There is no gift after sorrow.
There is but greed with grasping.
There is no holding–no caress.
And every gain is met with loss
And every hope is dashed by retribution.

Guilt fails,
And fails again to re-prove itself.

I am diminished.
I am smaller than I might have been.
I tell you a true story.

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Print

Rodrick Makes His Appearance

One thing about being on Prednisone is that you get stuff done! Here is my newest print of a Grandchild, Henrick. At two and a half, he is wise beyond his years. Look at that heroic pose!

There are 13 of these, 5″ x 8″ on the same translucent paper the others are on with a blue backing. Working out how to mat these prints. They may require a hand tinted mat or something.

Slowly the process evolves and refines.

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