WORD PAINTINGS #122 – BACK TO THE BEGINNING AGAIN!

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           WORD PAINTINGS #122 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Art and Life)             A MAN IS RICH AS HIS WOODPILE (From the High Road, Northern New Mexico)                                                    ***************************** WORD PAINTINGS #122 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Art and Life) 5 June 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) […]

LLANO SAN JUAN, NEW MEXICO – CANTO HONDO (DEEP SONG)

CANTO HONDO (DEEP SONG) – LLANO SAN JUAN – Over 18,000 of our Northern New Mexico neighbors have been displaced due to the Calf Canyon/Hermit’s Peak Fire. Donations of clothing and food are being collected at the large Agricultural Building in back of the Sagebrush Inn. Pet food is being collected for the strays displaced […]

WORD PAINTINGS #120 – A CRUEL SEASON

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WORD PAINTINGS #120 (How I Came to New Mexico and Learned About Life and Art) – A CRUEL SEASON 4 May 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – View from my kitchen window: What began as a few plumes of white over towards Las Vegas on or about the 20th of April became 75,000 acres forest […]

PRAYERS FOR NORTHERN NEW MEXICO….

Prayers for the north country – Mora, Las Vegas, Jemez – Have been wandering these roads for 55 years beautiful places, wonderful people – many, many paintings…heartbroken. (Capilla de Guadalupita – 2004)

WORD PAINTINGS #119 – GOING TO SANCTUARY

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  30 April 2022 (Llano Quemado, New Mexico) – High winds, forest fires – smoky haze settling on Taos Valley.  Heard yesterday that he winds will pick up again today. I can hear some whistles at the windows.  Rain clouds formed over the area across from my kitchen window.  Plumes of smoke from the Las […]

WORD PAINTINGS #118 – EARTH, WIND AND FIRE!!

  25 April 2022     (Llano Quemado, New Mexico)  – All I can say is “WOW”!!! Yesterday definitely felt like the end of the world. Sixty mile an hour winds up here on the Llano (94 mile an hour at the Ski Valley).  Blowing from south toward Taos Mountain the sand and dust was thick […]

WORD PAINTINGS #117 – A CANDLE FOR GRAMPA JIM

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GOOD FRIDAY – 15 April 2022.  Just lit a candle for my Grampa Jim.  The story goes that Valentin Danielewski came over on the boat from either Prussia or Poland when he was eight years old.  As a young adult he Americanized his name to Jim Daniels.  In time he married my grandmother Ella, adopted […]