C Kali Strong

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"I don’t really know whether art can exist without a certain degree of tranquillity or spiritual poise; without a certain amount of quiet you can have neither philosophy nor religion nor painting nor poetry. And as one of the specialties of modern life is to abolish this quiet, we are in danger of losing our arts together with the quiet of the soul that art demands." - Saul Bellow

 

 

Way back in the early 80s I was breaking in some new pens with refillable reservoirs, to accommodate colored ink. Doodle page in 5.5" x 8.5" sketchbook.

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Old sketchbook page

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"I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time." -- Orson Welles

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 "Bare Tree," ballpoint pen in 8.5" x 5.5" sketchbook

I like to commit as much as possible, old or new, to digital.

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Action figure

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 Pencil in 12" x 9" sketchbook, cropped. From a book of figures in action poses, photos for artists. 

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Then again ...

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 I was frequently castigated, for staring out the window, in school.

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Well, maybe not ...

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"... flapping down the poisoned air, A ten-clawed monster."

 

"Science Fiction"
 by Kingsley Amis

 What makes us rove that starlit corridor
May be the impulse to meet face to face
Our vice and folly shaped into a thing,
And so at last ourselves; what lures us there
Is simpler versions of disaster:
A web that shuffles time and space,
A sentence to perpetual journeying,
A world of ocean without shore,
And simplest, flapping down the poisoned air,
A ten-clawed monster.

In him, perhaps, we see the general ogre
Who rode our ancestors to nightmare,
And in his habitat their maps of hell.
But climates and geographies soon change,
Spawning mutations none can quell
With silver sword or necrocmancer’s ring,
Worse than their sires, of wider range,
And much more durable.

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Killing Joke - I Am The Virus (Lyric Video)

New shot of an old painting

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 Backyard Luna, 2008 oil on canvas 11 x 14"

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