Category Archives: why artists need math

in search of terrain

after 2 weeks of blowy snowy conditions in NM, two days traveling in the car, ten-foot high snow drifts in Flagstaff, dinner at Bun Boy, Barstow, and getting busted by the LAPD, we are back in LA in search of the bowl of posole, the hot sopapilla and the quiet forested arroyo for taking pups on their morning walks.

some friends recommended Bronson Canyon to us but they failed to say how cool it looks! there’s altitude, bat caves and SHADE!

but let’s not get carried away. can’t forget this is LA afterall.

art on/with

a few years ago an artist friend of mine moved to Oregon from Los Angeles slightly against her will and best judgment. after several gloomy months she developed a severe small-town depression and started admiring the local gourds. not wanting to be a crafts-fair artist she starting painting the gourds rather than ON them, but this soon turned into a really big worry: what, then, is the difference between painting a gourd and painting on a gourd? really.
and so, here’s the rice farmer’s answer to Rykovanov’s portrait of Pushkin en riz.