Joan Snyder

Magic Meadow, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

Our Foremothers, 1995

The Fall With Other Things In Mind, 2009

Brooklyn 2010, Acrylic, Pastel, Herbs, Burlap, Rosebuds on Linen

Sabine Weiss, Photography

Merchant of Brooms, 1961





"I was testifying, I thought that picture would tell us a strong feature of the human condition. I always felt the need to denounce my photos, the injustices that occur. "-" I do not like things very bright but sobriety ... it's not to love well, you have to be moved. The love of people, it's beautiful. This is serious, there is a terrible depth. We must go beyond the story, identify the chalice, recollection. I photograph to preserve the ephemeral, the random set, keep that picture will disappear: gestures, attitudes, objects that are evidence of our passage. The camera picks them up, freeze them just as they disappear."







Les Saintes Maries de la mer, 1960


According to google's translated copy of a french wikipedia page, Sabine Weiss was a Swiss-French female photographer born in 1924 who bought her first camera at the age twelve. Her photography is called 'humanist, "Light, gesture, gaze, movement, silence, rest, rigor, relaxation, I would incorporate everything in that movement that is expressed with a minimum of the average man's essential...My photos...express some of the love I have for life".

Punography - Bruce A. McMillan

I found a dusty copy of this book one day at the book lady in savannah, georgia. It was seven dollars and I didn't have any money on me so I hid it where I always hide books in bookstores (I'll never tell) and forgot about it the next dozen or so times I was book browsing until one day at least a year later I remembered it and it was miraculously still there. This is my sense of humor, I'm sorry. And also sorry for the pictures of pictures quality. 




(making a clean breast of it)












Force of Habit





Playing by Ear



















Putting Your Best Foot Forward










Two Heads are Better Than One

















Bark up the wrong tree








A rock group getting stoned








Recessive Genes














Roll with the punches


And my personal favorite; 














Catching his eye