The Abstract+Expressionist Art Journal

A fault line is just offshore from where I live; it is the boundary between the Pacific and the North American tectonic plates. You know, those things that can’t exist because the earth is only 6,000 years old. Nevertheless, sooner or later the Big One is going to hit, and since I live about 10 […]

Every human endeavor has its aficionados, and its purists. It has its own Taliban, too, who will punish you if you fail to follow in the line of orthodoxy. In painting, one orthodox view is that you must do ONE thing and one thing only, and to do otherwise will incur penalties.
This is one of […]

Death is big. Death, not life, is the centerpiece of civilization and the basis of what we do. Religion exists because of the fear of death. Our lives rotate around avoiding death, cheating death, flirting with death and denying death. And of course, everyone dies. That is why people want to know what death is […]