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The George Baily Question
02/01/11
GBC Acrylic and graphite on canvas, 8” x 10”
Another Big Question... perhaps the quintessential Big Question.
What would the world miss if you didn’t exist?
O Frabjous Day
08/23/10
O Frabjous Day Oil, Acrylic, and graphite on canvas, 8” x 10”
Ask me to declaim a poem, and Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky is bound to emerge.
I’m delighted that good friends, who also have an appreciation for fun and nonsense, have acquired this painting.
Humpty Dumpty explains the meaning of the words in Through the Looking Glass...or you can look it up in wikipedia.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! and through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.
’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
Comfort Zone Uexplored Territory
03/07/10
You Are Here Acrylic and graphite on canvas, 8” x 10”
Comfort Zone or Unexplored Territory?
Precipitating an affair of the heart,
pursuing a sustaining vocation,
or perusing a menu at any upstanding sit-down restaurant,
one is inevitably confronted with the choice...
Stay in your comfort zone?
Stray into uncharted territory?
Your true calling could be either. Be Gentle. Be Bold. Order what you really want.
Trifling Exception
10/12/09
Trifling Excepton Acrylic and graphite on canvas, 8” x 10”
It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
~ John Andrew Holmes, a physician and writer, best known for Wisdom in Small Doses (1927)
Let’s keep some perspective, shall we.
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