and possibly much more wonderful

"Art ought to be a troublesome thing and one of the reasons for painting representationally is that this makes for much more troublesome pictures." David Park

Painting: Four Men, 1958. David Park

canoodle playfully, crazily, or not

You know, woozy, half woke-up. And, with that, it felt/feels completely likeable, warm and evocative of a world where people move in and out of space and each other and don’t yank themselves different in the doing so.

Easy ebullient intimacy, I suppose, is what I’m saying. Or close enough.

From Robert Cook on Jackson Eaton
Photo from "I Will Dream of You," by Jackson Eaton

working class hero

In 1990, Marianne Faithful taught a workshop at Naropa with Hal Willner. She was just about to perform in The Seven Deadly Sins in London, and she sang for us: Working Class Hero, Strange Weather, and Ballad of the Soldier's Wife (link is Lennon). Thanks to UE for reminding me.

Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe