What says autumn better than the color orange. Ok maybe some fool running through your neighborhood at midnight yelling “autumn, autumn, autumn!” But that’s just some young misguided drunk Buckeyes fan, and in another few years he maybe your accountant, lawyer, or doctor. Don’t let it get you down in the dumps – it’s autumn! Have a happy Thanksgiving!
“Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquistion!” How easily we forget though. Do Senators Schumer and Feinstein understand that during the Spanish Inquisition both Jews as well as Muslims were waterboarded? That means the Senators would have been considered targets of the Church, who only wanted to save their souls, and make sure their conversions were pure. But today they signaled that they would vote for an Attorney General who can’t say that this action is torture. Well I hope Mukasey can tell the difference between cremation when it is done to a dead body rather than a live one, without having some briefing from the Prophet in Chief.
There are many of us printmakers who have a fascination with “mark-making.” We go gaga over the beauty of lines be they purposeful, random chance or accidental. The grace of a line can be as beautiful as an entire Miro painting. In fact many of his paintings sprang from some early fragment on his canvas which became the guiding foundation of that piece. Nature using man-made objects as it’s matrix is probably the best mark-maker. Photographers of the Aaron Siskind perspective appreciate these as much as printmakers. I wish I could capture those works of wonder as well as he could. This photo is a digital effort from my travels in Spain. I believe it is the remnants of poster glue on a wall in Valencia.