Paintings
My Background
My Inspirations
My Background
When I was young I was not encouraged to draw and paint but my desire to be creative led me to art school. My first professor said he would give me a B if I quit. I did. A few years later he gave me stink eye when he saw me in a printmaking class.
I think he's dead now.
My Medium
My Inspirations
My Background
I use acrylics, water based oils, traditional oils and and sometimes pastel on canvas. Sometimes paper, feathers, dead birds or other detritus might be found in the mix. I enjoy experimenting with paints and mediums and paint over old paintings to create new effects.
My Inspirations
My Inspirations
My Inspirations
Art. Biology.
Color.History.
Music. Nature.
Philosophy. Poetry.
Religion. Sex.
POEMS
Background
Translations
Translations
When I was young, I wrote poems that were published in the local neighborhood newspaper.
In school I wrote poems, made small books, and created silly satires of popular advertisements.
I later became a copywriter.
During university, I published some poems and won some awards.
I never graduated.
My greatest achievement was in Chicago when
When I was young, I wrote poems that were published in the local neighborhood newspaper.
In school I wrote poems, made small books, and created silly satires of popular advertisements.
I later became a copywriter.
During university, I published some poems and won some awards.
I never graduated.
My greatest achievement was in Chicago when Ezra Pound's psychiatrist from St. Elizabeth's
said he liked my poems.
Cheating Death is a phrase from Tibetan Buddhism. In my mind it could be translated as Daily Life. Ultimately, there is no cheating death.
Translations
Translations
Translations
Chinese poetry is an art form that brings a three dimensional visual aspect to the delivery of a poem that is being displayed in a two dimensional format. The visual content of the characters adds another layer of meaning. I attempt to be as faithful to the original as possible while also rendering some of this spirit.
I began this journe
Chinese poetry is an art form that brings a three dimensional visual aspect to the delivery of a poem that is being displayed in a two dimensional format. The visual content of the characters adds another layer of meaning. I attempt to be as faithful to the original as possible while also rendering some of this spirit.
I began this journey in 1972 at the Ohio State University and continued through another ten years while attending and not attending The University of Texas. I continued refining these translations for the next several decades. What a pleasure to revisit the greatest masters of Chinese poetry. I think I have gone as far as I can with them. At least for now. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Poems
Translations
Poems
This new hardcover book collects all of my poems and translations to date. It includes all of the poems from my previous books, a new section of poems, all of my translations of Chinese poetry, and the Abhidharmakośa of Vasubandhu translated with Geshe Namgyul Wangchen in Sarnath, India in 1980.