day 7, WEEK 14

graffiti hiding a block or two down from the main streets of greensburg:

day 5, WEEK 14

my friend basking in nature's beauty just downstream from the conemaugh dam:

day 4, WEEK 14

might as well share some more finds

this one was from an advertisement for the montreal international festival of jazz a couple years ago, i took it and turned it into construction paper with a frame, entitled music:

day 2, WEEK 14

i was sorting through old folders before i leave home for another extended period of months, and i found several old artworks that were meant to be part of a "concentration."  my concentration originally was appropriating other images . . . then it developed into doing this with only four different colors . . . i think the final product was images appropriated into only black, orange, and primary colors, with an overlying theme of childhood . . .

right . . . so, this one was called solitude, and it's a charcoal drawing of me that my best friend made, which i then painted over, and called my own:

fun fact:  i got terrible grades on nearly all of these art pieces!

song-of-the-week song!! (WEEK 14)

day 1, WEEK 14

the first time i saw this poem, it was hanging above a urinal.  now it’s one of my favorites:

i am falling off a mountain by jack prelutsky

I am falling off a mountain
I am plummeting through space
you can tell this does not please me
by the frown upon my face

as the ground keeps getting nearer
it's a simple task to tell
that I've got a slight dilemma
that my days not going well

my velocity's increasing
I am dropping like a stone
I could do with some assistance
is there someone I can phone?

though I'm unafraid of falling
I am prompted to relate
that the landing has me worried
and I don't have long to wait

I am running out of options
there's just one thing left to try
in the next eleven seconds
I have got to learn to fly.