Death & Marketing
There is nothing so fatal to character as half-finished tasks.
—David Lloyd George, British prime minister (1916–22)
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A lot has changed in the 32 months since my last post. For one thing, I thought my hiatus was 18 months, but then did the math. Grasp of time, as others have noted, has been one of many casualties during the Covid-19 pandemic, to put it mildly. Or 33 months. The restart has taken an additional month to assemble the pieces that make a website go.
While I was doing other things, I considered how and when and why to resume publishing. Media channels change in the blink of an eye. In the two decades since I began this website, technology has evolved to make publicity easy and continuous—a 24/7/365 torrential flow. And for a visual artist, backroom tasks add up.
The purpose of this post is to share a selection of sketchbook drawings made in the gap and not previously shown: Sketchbook 2018-2020.
I am attracted to blogging, old fashioned though it may be, because it is primarily verbal. Since spring 2017, I elected to join a weekly writing group. Write-on-command prompts quickly produced stacks of rough drafts of essays, memoir, and fiction. Rewrites beckon.
Going forward, I plan to send a blog-email 8 times a year. Should my past absence have caused you to re-assess your inbox preferences, for any reason, please select UNSUBSCRIBE at this time.
My purpose in composing blog posts about my creative pursuits is to stay in touch with friends and colleagues, known and yet to meet. I hope you’ll decide that receiving an occasional note from me is worthwhile.
The Moon, Marmota maximus, the Fox, Martha & Abbie, w/ H-Bomb Nov 1, 1952 — 6-22-20
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Above: Mae West & Bunnies & Turkeys, Castor canadensis — 7-28-20 — 7-29-20
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