Four Presidents

9 x 12 inches. Cut magazine pages on paper.

Four Musicians

10.5 x 8 inches. When between projects, I collage.

skeleton

I finished my new poetry manuscript, skeleton, and I'm so excited about it. In the fall, I will begin to send it out for publication. For now, here are three sample poems:

Landscape with Calla Lily & Bull Seal

Graphite on paper. 14 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches.

Landscape with Abutilon & Spadefish

2010. Graphite on paper. 11 inches.

Open

2010. No. 4. Graphite on paper. 24 x 8 inches. Then three details.

At New York Park

Landscape with Wasps' Nest

2010. No. 2. Graphite on paper. 24 x 8 inches.

More Shadows

Today

At the Montrose Harvest Market (66 & sunny)

For The Animals All Are Gathering

Link to University of Pittsburgh Press, Bradley Paul's second collection of poems, The Animals All Are Gathering, available Fall 2010.

Bruce Nauman's LEAVE THE LAND ALONE

Between 11:30 AM and 12:30 PM today, "LEAVE THE LAND ALONE" appeared several times in sky-writing over Pasadena. I watched (and photographed) from the parking lot in Brookside Park, near the Rose Bowl.

The first time the phrase was written, its position in the sky caused it to appear upside-down from my p.o.v.



I like this shot with only "THE LAND" written over the parking lot, obese with SUVs and mini-vans, and with smog visible against the mountains. The planes were practically invisible as they wrote.

As you can see here, five planes flew side-by-side, building the letters in unison. They were inaudible, at least over the ambient noise where I was.