Your memoir is powerfully engaging at many levels for me. Thank you for sharing. I WILL buy the book if and when it's published. The variety of your life experiences is astonishing. You seem to have done everything I would have wanted to do in a different life track. Europe and New York in the 90's and after 9/11. I grieved when Ayn Rand died in 1982 and always wondered what the services had been like. You gave me that experience vicariously. Thank you. And your accounts of other objectivist thinkers who I've followed over the years have been engrossing. The only personalities I've actually met in person were with Cato or Reason. Plus Nathaniel Brandon. But so many others I could only track at a distance. I am amazed at your ability as an artist plus your psychological adeptness plus your ability to write clearly and in such an engagingly personal way. You sort of define the term "Renaissance Man." Thank you for everything. Also, the insights to your approach to painting, such as how you noticed the color of the model's toe was reflected in the rock he was about to step on. Such exacting detail! Just fantastic. And of course that makes me appreciate even more the drawing I recently purchased, the intentionality behind every single line. I'm guessing you made the left hand ever so slightly larger to emphasize the effect of casting the stars into the universe. Nice.
Oh, you’ve covered so much here. What a wonderful life. Yes, idioms at a sure way to know if you understand language! The portraits of your friends are absolutely inedible, as are the landscapes… wow! Icarus landing is acrylic!?! It’s so wonderful, as is your self portrait. Always in awe of your work and thank you for sharing how your life shaped it.
I can’t find where you left a comment directing me to the Art Renewal Center, but I wanted to give you a heartfelt thank you for doing so. I finally looked them up and I started reading their about page and I am so inspired by what I read so far. Thank you.
Your memoir is powerfully engaging at many levels for me. Thank you for sharing. I WILL buy the book if and when it's published. The variety of your life experiences is astonishing. You seem to have done everything I would have wanted to do in a different life track. Europe and New York in the 90's and after 9/11. I grieved when Ayn Rand died in 1982 and always wondered what the services had been like. You gave me that experience vicariously. Thank you. And your accounts of other objectivist thinkers who I've followed over the years have been engrossing. The only personalities I've actually met in person were with Cato or Reason. Plus Nathaniel Brandon. But so many others I could only track at a distance. I am amazed at your ability as an artist plus your psychological adeptness plus your ability to write clearly and in such an engagingly personal way. You sort of define the term "Renaissance Man." Thank you for everything. Also, the insights to your approach to painting, such as how you noticed the color of the model's toe was reflected in the rock he was about to step on. Such exacting detail! Just fantastic. And of course that makes me appreciate even more the drawing I recently purchased, the intentionality behind every single line. I'm guessing you made the left hand ever so slightly larger to emphasize the effect of casting the stars into the universe. Nice.
Thank you Ron for such a great comment, and I took the liberty to share it!
Oh, you’ve covered so much here. What a wonderful life. Yes, idioms at a sure way to know if you understand language! The portraits of your friends are absolutely inedible, as are the landscapes… wow! Icarus landing is acrylic!?! It’s so wonderful, as is your self portrait. Always in awe of your work and thank you for sharing how your life shaped it.
I can’t find where you left a comment directing me to the Art Renewal Center, but I wanted to give you a heartfelt thank you for doing so. I finally looked them up and I started reading their about page and I am so inspired by what I read so far. Thank you.
Glad you found the ARC ! 😀💜💫
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