“Sacred Heart” oil on board by Casey Lynch
What I Spent My Birthday Money On
February 11, 2012 by at 9:42 am
A nod to Kierkegaard and Walker Percy: existentialist tomfoolery, political satire, literary homage, word mongering, a year-round summer reading club, Dylanesque music bits, apocalyptic marianism, poetry, fiction, meta-porn, a prisoner work-release program.
JOB
Conflicted in early life between his desire to be a weatherman for local community access cable stations and a man who wears pants in July, JOB took the middle road and now writes poems between every waking moment. [Read More …]
Southern Expat
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Oil on board, indeed. That is clearly a back tat. Still, a highly worthwhile expenditure. Happy birthday.
‘Potter’s Back’
Turn back.
Mazal tov & ad multos annos!
(That goes for Mr Webb, too, since I was late to his party.)
How big is the board? Big enough to use as a headboard?
Thanks Angelico. It could work as a headboard. I’m trying to talk Ashley into letting me hang it over the mantel, though. I have her interior decorator sister on my side, so it could happen.
Good luck getting your way, sir — though if you can’t, maybe you could sell the painting to the House of Blues.
I note with interest that the cummings quotation continues the typewritten aesthetic of House of Words. Possible cover art for the next collection?
Potter’s back indeed. Only it should have been on velvet.
Welcome Back Potter
What are the dimensions? If you position it right it could look very cool above the mantel. I have a couple things up there one is the Daniel Mitsui (sp?) that Lickonas got us, I just lean them up there. Usually off center. It’s kinda cool. But yes, good luck winning. I am a wife after all and yes though D has very strong opinions, I get last word.
2′ x 4′ and the colors pull nicely from the rug, walls, and bamboo blinds. But everything else in the room is quite a bit more on the subtle and subdued side. And an array of framed pictures of the children currently spans the mantel shelf and would have to go.
File under: symbolism.
That painting would really tie the room together, would it not? Am I wrong?
[Sipping from a white russian] Yeah.
I mean, No. You’re not wrong.
Oh and by the way….the crucifixion pretty much sums up all you need to know in a glance about our children. As would the sacred heart. Who needs the photos?
(ha ha I’m kidding, just, you know, in case you thought I wasn)….
Whenever Webb visits our house, he always asks why we have so many pictures of the kids up when the kids themselves are right there to look at in stunning present-tense 3D.
Why, to certify them, of course.
Potter, you’re in your element.
Mel, I’m a Mitsui fan! If I may ask, what’s the subject of the Mitsui that graces your mantle?
It’s the crucifixion detailed with depictions of some of epic stories in the bible in miniature around the outer edges. It is pretty much phenomenal. (thank you Lickonas). I like to think it’s artistically leaning there. But I do need to actually frame it…..
Thanks for the description! I love it when artists (or homilists) draw comparisons between events from the Bible. That’s also a great way to pray the Rosary.
And in a work of religious art, it also makes a better value for money: multiple pictures for the price of one!