Sometime during the fourth year of production of A Life’s Work I recognized how long this film was going to take to complete and a joke was born: I’m making a film about people who may not complete their work … Continued
I leave VCCA Sunday morning (weather permitting), hitching a ride back to NYC with my friend, the insanely talented writer, Jen V. Here’s what I had hoped to get done: “I plan on cutting the Robert Darden footage Wolfgang shot … Continued
Poet Donald Hall once asked the 88-year-old sculptor Henry Moore, “What is the secret of life?” Moore’s answer: “The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every … Continued
If you read the “It’s Artist Residency Time” post, you’ll know what I hoped to get done during my stint here at VCCA. “So,” I can hear you ask, “how’s it going?” Slowly. My residency was scheduled for November 15 … Continued
“Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify, simplify! … Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose.” Henry David Thoreau
Recently I had a lovely sushi dinner with my friend Meryl, a photography-based artist and teacher. She had just watched the clips of A Life’s Work and was taken by the quality of the images. “How did you find such … Continued
Soon I will be taking advantage of a most generous gift of time and space. On November 15 I’ll be driving down to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts where I will be among 25 or so other writers … Continued
Brooklyn, your very fine botanical garden, so revered for its cherry blossoms in springtime, is also home to two champion trees. Brooklyn, perhaps you read this blog and saw this term, “champion tree” and scratched your giant head and wondered, … Continued
I recently read a post on Gizmodo, An Astronaut Explains How We’ll Fall In Love With Space Again by Leroy Chiao, their official astronaut blogger. In it he lists six bullet points. I think all of his points are valid, … Continued
