Open Studios October 2011

Once again I’ll be participating in San Francisco’s Fall Open Studios. Featured will be new intaglio collages. Several of these continue in prior figurative veins; others are purely abstract and perhaps meditative. I also plan to offer previews of some...

Travel – Delhi to SFO

Train rides in India are adventures unto themselves, and the night train to Delhi from Patankot, near Dharamshala, was no exception. Exhausted we arrived at our hotel too early in the morning to check into a room. The host graciously lets us wash up in a luxurious...

Travel – Dharamshala

Dharamshala’s winding steep and narrow streets seem impassible by car, but our driver was skilled. Later we strolled streets of the bazaar in the darkening evening with snow-white Himalayan peaks glowing overhead.

Travel – Haridwar & Rishikesh

Arrived at the train station of Haridwar, one of India’s holiest cities, near the end of Kumbh Mela, when holy men from all over come to be purified by bathing in the most sacred Ganga (Ganges) River. By coincidence it was also Holi, the uproarious...

Travel – A Day in Delhi

Far too brief a stay in Delhi! A visit to Mohatma Gandi’s cremation site was emotional; he was a transformative being. The Museum of Modern Art was chock full of interesting works and the National Museum’s collection of stone carvings and bronzes is...

Travel – Khajuraho

The temples of Khajuraho are famous for their beautiful Kama Sutra stone carvings. We observe the carvings also illustrate that traffic in India has always been . . . interesting.