This images appears in its final version "Historic" in 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed. “Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your inner voice.” ~ Steve Jobs ...
Art
Aging
Despite the unflinching march of time so much of the stonework at Machu Picchu remains structurally, aesthetically sound today. Precision. Perfection. Endurance. It's exhausting to even contemplate the hours, the lives it took to transform a mountaintop into a sacred city. We were fortunate to visit once. I hope to return. It's profoundly inspiring to see that some beauty improves with aging... ...
Beauty
This beguiling maiden stands along Canyon Road in Santa Fe. I'll verify the gallery and the sculptor anon, but for now a "doodle bomb" with only a subtle hint of the beauty remaining, cloaked in labyrinthine admiration. Think less of a maze-veil and more of a meditation on her surfaces and contours. That sounds smutty. Sorry. Skip the smut and conjure up slow, contemplative pacing through ...
Raw Material
"All that happens to us, humiliations, and embarrassments is given to us as raw material, so that we may shape our art." ~ Jorge Luis Borges ...