The Devil’s Den. A lovely spot, dramatic, isolated and worth every minute of the journey. On Fyfield Down scattered sarsen stones mingle with thorns, creating a magical landscape populated by crows and occasional sheep, one of the most beautiful places in the West Country. If the old fairie folk were going to live anywhere [...]
We have had a fantastic two days at Avebury, the greatest megalithic temple in the world. It’s a giant circle of stones surrounded by a deep ditch and embankment combining to an impressive thirty feet or so in places. When it was built four thousand ago the embankment and ditch probably reached up to sixty feet in total depth [...]
Here, resting in the British Museum, lie the remains of an ancient Briton. This fellow was placed in a crouched position with a beaker marked with the impression of a piece of cord. The people who made the great stone circles were the same as contemporary humans: equally intelligent, just as worried for the futures of [...]
Tagged ancestors, archaeology, art, bones, megalith, mystical, neolithicIt’s colder and grayer, but we made it here in one piece despite some drama on the way when a bus caught fire outside the terminal at LAX, reminding me of the Glasgow airport incident with the Jeep Cherokee. In this instance it was a great thing for us, as we zipped through check-in and [...]
I’ve been quite preoccupied with wrapping up the administration of the department for the academic year and preparing to travel to England on a trip with fourteen of my students and my colleagues Dr. Marja Mogk and Stephanie Shaker. I expect the blog to take on a distinctly different flavor for a while, because instead [...]
That’s it. The bottles have been packed away for their next incarnation, which I hope will be in the show at the Brand gallery next year. I ran into Alyssa last week and asked her about the tree in the courtyard there, she said that she would ask the grounds people not to trim it [...]
1. Distillery Collective painter Gary Palmer is the guy on the left with his hand on the dread-locked woman (his sister Tracey). 2.Gallery owner Bert Green is the bald, goateed guy who looks very pleased with himself with an axe on his shoulder standing before the cross. 3.Los Angeles painter Christophe Cassidy is the guard with the rifle on his hip to [...]
Tagged bert green, bob sexton, Crucifixion, figurative, gary palmer, jesus, lisa lock, Ogre, oil painting, rosicrucian, sean sobczak, skinny puppyHere’s the sketch of the crucifixion. I noticed a couple of things worth commenting on. First, clearly at the time I made the initial drawing I had not researched the acacia – in this early version the tree was going to to be an olive. Second, I had intended to pose as the centurian [...]
Tagged Crucifixion, figurative, oil painting, rosicrucianIf you’ve been visiting the blog to keep an eye on the progress I’ve made with the Aviator’s Dream, hold that thought. It’s the end of semester and I’ve been buried under grading and the poignant prospect of saying farewell to our senior art majors, who are finishing their time at CLU. I have been talking to [...]
Tagged altar, art, cross, Crucifixion, jesus, oil, painting, rosicrucian
