When Sex Was Still Mysterious

Am I Not God?

Mark Warren "The Artist as God" etching w/aquatint plate size 9" X 12"

Reading Direction

Excerpt from "Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell" by Deborah Solomon

I love to watch movies from the middle. There are some films I really like that I have never seen from the Beginnng. Sometimes I prefer to find a movie already broadcasting then retrieve one from the DVR or pop in a DVD. There is something about the beginnings that I find tedious. It is the same with non-fiction books. Almost all biographies begin with grandparents and a whole lot of material about a person that I am not that sure I am committed to knowing all about. The first full biography of Lincoln that I read I began with his election. Then as my curiosity increased and questions formed I began to read the earlier chapters and could understand the relevance to the mature Lincoln. I almost always read biographies from the point of the story that first drew me to that character. I have read a few that don't start with the deep family history and it is refreshing.

I must say that this habit may very well constitue some kind of disease. I always flip through magazines and newspapers backwards. Of course I don't read that way but rather search out what I will read. But why? I think it may be heriditary because I can picture my father reading the newspaper from back to front. I was sadly born for the fragment; I don't believe that is a positive.

Excerpts From A Strange Medical Notebook #3

Kinda Creepy

A Young David Hockney

Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe "Black Maple Trunk Yellow Leaves" 1929

I am not usually taken with O'keeffe paintings but this one I love. It is nice to see a big sensual nature image that is not vaginal. I also find most O'keeffes disappointing in person, the surfaces so thin and dry. But they do reproduce nicely thus accounting for the huge Georgia O monograph industry. Of course I haven't seen this painting in person so...OOPS!...just saw the vagina!...oh...there's another one.....

Never Saw This Before

de Kooning "Untitled (Two Women)" 1947