When we separate music from life what we get is art (a compendium of masterpieces). With contemporary music, when it is actually contemporary, we have no time to make that separation (which protect us from living), and so contemporary music is not so much art as it is life and any one making it no sooner finished one of it than he begins making another just as people keep on washing dishes, brushing teeth, getting sleepy, and so on. —from “Composition as Process”, Silence (1961) by John Cage.

This painting is the same size as the previous post. In this one, I used Old Holland Sepia Extra.

In this painting, I used Old Holland Warm Sepia, Mars Black and Titanium White. it is 6.6 X 10.5 or something like that. it is 1:1.618 and 72 sq. inches in area.

This is one of my favorites of my recent paintings. it is just some cut up sections from an aluminum foil cardboard roll. It is 9:16 72 sq. inches in area and like the others oil on 300 lb. paper.

This paintings of some CMU’s has a ratio of 1:1.4142 and is an oil on 300 lb. hot press paper.

A recent painting of a “ditch” from a model I built. it is 9:16 and 72sq inches in area. oil on 300 lb. Arches hot press. 2011

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This is a screen shot from the film, Pale Flower (1964), by Masahiro Shinoda. It is available in instant view on Netflix, however, Criterion is releasing it soon. The speedometer is in kph, so they’re only going about 60 mph.
The purpose of this posting is that this is a perfect dashboard display for me as the two things I have been thinking about is gas and water. This is such a simple and clear display.

The new support is approximately 1:1.618. 9.5 X 15.25″ — the Golden Section.

a view of the ceiling,

water from the Pleasanton well fields and Arroyo de la Laguna,

off the filter level down to a lower channel—the water flowing through it is no longer part of any potable water supplies.