“One of the reasons I prefer painting or drawing in black and white,

or almost in black and white, is that if you have some shadow or darkness in the frame,

then your mind can travel in there and dream. In general, color is a little too real.

It’s too close. It doesn’t make you dream much. If everything is visible,

and there’s too much light, the thing is what it is, but it isn’t any more than that.”

— David Lynch

courtesy bouw kunst

Few images from the second trip to the beach…

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Two collections from Jennifer Booher.

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Andreas Gursky’s exploration of oceanic imagery in large format photographs installed in Berlin gallery, Spruth Magers.

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Again, more from the beach…

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Photos from the bay.

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I’m away for vacation. Here are some images…

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“Language itself seems set up in such a way as to detect the intruders for me.

Few mistakes are purely technical. Almost all of them are my mistakes.And I cross out,

and I correct, with the joy one can have at cutting a gangrenous limb from one’s body.”

Surrealist René Daumal on editing — an interesting take on the process and satisfaction of reduction.

Read the entire piece here: Poetry White Poetry Black

“…we’re allowing ourselves to become a nation of nitwits, obsessed

with the comings and goings of Lindsay Lohan and increasingly oblivious

to crucially important societal issues that are all but screaming for attention.”

From the recent OP-ED piece by Bob Herbert @ the NY Times: “Putting Our Brains on Hold“

Guidi films its Tuscan factory and their various processes for making leather goods.