The voice on the iPod guide quotes Henry David Thoreau. His paintings show a world with few boundaries-where one thing…a man, a whale, a mast of a ship…it doesn’t really matter…one thing at a time stands out in defined relief. Turner makes no accommodation for our acceptance or rejection.
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Turner on loan from the Tate in London shows us how to be more effectively human. Ideologies are sideshow distractions from the essential nature of us all-useful tools in our continuing effort to avoid real thought. Turner and Nashville know that the denial of life is motivated by something less obvious and simplistic than political and economic ideology. But many stretches of Los Angeles look as worn-out and deteriorated as the streets of the newly liberated republics of the former Communist bloc countries of Eastern Europe in the late 1980’s. Our human needs will be met indirectly once we attain our desire for profit. The idea is that market forces will create wealth and men of profit will build all the infrastructure we need to sustain it. Education, health care, art, culture has a pledge drive. We have turned essential life into a beggar.
Paul Getty who fouled our air in the first place. Our moments of peace are gifts to us from the men like J. Philanthropy is civic-minded “charity” that bequeaths us momentary glimpses of our birthrights. But it is just that because we make it that way. A first moment of sobriety.Īrt need not be an escape-the cathedral that you are tossed to from the gritty sand storm battle of what is called living. A community rises above its avarice and fear. Not one shallow or restless breath is exhaled.
Undenied animal natures gratefully subordinate themselves to the gods within. The large crowd in our car is calm with happy and quiet anticipation. Visitors take a monorail from a valley to the pavilions. The fifteen dollars is all that we will need to spend for our entire time at the museum. We park our hulking rent-a-car, a mid-size SUV. Oh, the humanity!Īnd then there is the Getty. Its attempts at dignity are pathetic and comical. is a sprawling drunk who believes he is sober. Every edifice screamed I CAN MAKE A BUCK HERE! I CAN MAKE A BUCK HERE! L.A. One seedy building of past or imagined grandeur after another passed by us as we drove the crowded, impatient and uncivil streets and boulevards. If a hoarder’s house became an urban landscape it would be Los Angeles. is a city of grandiose intentions betrayed.
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We saw the Turner exhibit at the Getty Museum and we saw Robert Altman’s masterpiece movie from the mid-70’s Nashville at the Aero revival house in Santa Monica. Paula and I had an art filled day in Los Angeles yesterday. But I don’t know which are the studies and which are the polished works, until time passes and perspective improves. Many blog posts are like a painter’s sketches - studies done en route to the final art work. I think there is some type of narrative to The Rick Blog - and some new thing in the pieces that I have written that I believe retain artistic value. What I care about is the stuff of my life. My approach is to just write about what interests me. It seems like it might be just one thing after another but I suspect it isn’t. Some of my attention now turns to the blog as a whole. I like to dive in, and work uncensored, make wild mistakes and simply get better. I’ve experienced this evolution in every job that I have ever done.
Many pieces need very little editing because I am less refining the text of a particular poem/essay, I am refining the process of writing. I believe my process is simply writing a lot. A.” Previous pieces had some good ideas, and in retrospect I was laying out several themes, but this piece was the first fully realized segment.Īn old truism says that “writing is re-writing”. The first time artistry emerged in my writing process was on March 3, 2015, in the blog segment “Art Has Its Day in L. I was simply expressing my thoughts, feelings and opinions as one does on social media while trying for something more. My first entries were just blog posts, nothing more - which wasn’t my intention. I started writing The Rick Blog on February 3, 2015. Life is never just one thing after another, even if it seems that way. The blog is a book - the story of a blog, the story of the evolution of the writing process of the blog, the story of a blogger, and the story of the world the blogger finds himself in. The Rick Blog Annotated #writing #TheRickBlog #poetry #essay #PoeticEssay #creativeprocess
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