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Adam Stennet, who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, is an accomplished artist who dabbles in not just painting but also video, screenprint, installations and much more. His fascination with rodents, such as mice and humans, is quite quirky but somehow it works. Link
Comstock Lode
Goodbye Virginia City
And these tall Nevada pines
I’ll marry my soul to a ghost town
When I lay me down to die
Wisht I had a copper coin
For all the gold I’ve known
I’d trade it all to a highwayman
For a half a pint of rum
This old gold has took my soul
And left me for the tomb
I spent my last nickel on a whiskey still
What else would a miner do?
All I got’s this old grey mule
Two blankets & some rum
She rode me all the way to Reno
I’ll trade her for a pistol gun
Goodbye Virginia City
And these tall Nevada pines
I’ll marry my soul to a ghost town
Even though my son was born with a some-what large head which he gets from his big brained dad Phil Blank seems to be fixated on painting humans and animals alike with them as well. His art is quite imaginative and dreamy but also dabbles on the line of delusional. To top it off, Phil also has some excellent writing to go along with some of the paintings. Link
A short story by Lisa Swerling & Ralph Lazar. Link
A truly prodigious and original artist, Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000), gave to the world over one hundred works, including The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Doubtful Guest and The Wuggly Ump; prize-winning set and costume designs for innumerable theater productions from Cape Cod to Broadway; a remarkable number of illustrations in publications such as The New Yorker and The New York Times, and in books by a wide array of authors from Charles Dickens to Edward Lear, Samuel Beckett, John Updike, Virginia Woolf, H.G. Wells, Florence Heide and many others. His well known animated credits for the PBS Mystery series have introduced him to millions of television viewers. Gorey’s masterful pen and ink illustrations and his ironic, offbeat humor have brought him critical acclaim and an avid following throughout the world. Link
One of the most fascinating things that I find amusing about Ric is the ability to take ordinary objects, and some which have seem the passing of time, and turn them into ordinary everyday folks. His work is very creative and very thought prevoking. Link
