Saturday, November 20, 2004

Truthless


"Women receive
the insults of men
with tolerance,
having been bitten
in the nipple
by their toothless gums."
-- Dilys Laing

[pen, Photoshop]

Friday, November 19, 2004

Opera Mouth


"No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible." -- W.H. Auden

[water felt tip, mosaic, Photoshop]

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Passage to Heaven


"I begin to see that a man’s got to be in his own heaven to be happy."
-- Capt. Eli Stormfield (Mark Twain)

[ink on tracing paper, Photoshop]

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Aardvarker


"They say 'aardvark' never hurt anybody, but I figure why take the chance." -- a Ronald Reagan variant
[felt tip, Photoshop]

Tuesday, November 16, 2004

Profile


"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own." -- W.H. Auden

[ink and paint, Photoshop]

Monday, November 15, 2004

Negation


"Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
-- E.M. Cioran

[vinyl paint on cel, scratch-off, Photoshop]

Sunday, November 14, 2004

Sam


"A samurai without a sword is like a poet without a pen."
-- D. Orlando

[blue pencil, Photoshop]