Why? Why? It’s always about choice unless it’s about obedience to a command, but that simply shifts the origin of the question over to another person. Why is this image chosen? Those three birds? The broken barrel (is it?)? … Read More
He used to be in my grandmother Aggie’s dining room. He sat in the dark on a heavy mahogany sideboard. There was enough light for me to see holes that lead inside. They frightened me, or he did. He was … Read More
Basil is looking for the Green Man across the globe…being of the opinion that our interfaces with nature are irritants across many cultures. Irritants that make oysters create pearls. Irritants that are never solved. Being of the opinion that no … Read More
Basil’s diptych “A Predella for the Green Man” (mixed media on two canvas panels, together measuring 42 inches high by 12 feet long) is complete. Process and progress from July 2012 to January 2013 was documented in photos by Sanjay … Read More
Filmmaker and poet Julian Semilian screened the film for his students in experimental film at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem). (The school’s ‘movie street’ is seen above.) He sent these comments: I can … Read More
The screening is this Friday, November 9, at 8:00pm, in the first festival showing of Nicole and Miles’ wonderful documentary. For folks near Beverly, Massachusetts, check out the details here: http://www.beverlyfilmfest.com/ The film has been entered in a number of … Read More
Please note a few key program changes: the film begins promptly at 5:15. The reading of King’s writings at 3:20 will feature Joe Elliot, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Martha King, Mitch Highfill and Michael Mann. The basic plan is unchanged: “Basil’s Arc – The … Read More
Downstairs in the Metropolitan’s very modern Lehman donut there is a fascinating exhibition of early Egyptian art. It traces what scholars currently deduce about the evolution of that art as revealed by “predynastic” finds from 4,400 BC (roughly six thousand … Read More