Another corrugated masterpiece...

...from J.T. Steiny. This one made me think of the poem Wallace Stevens is thought to have written when he was made Vice President at the Hartford, The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain. The character in the drawing also looks vaguely like Tom Waits, it's funny to think of Tom Waits wandering around in a Wallace Stevens poem.

Cláudia sent me a link earlier today to some very beautiful work by a paper sculptor su blackwell here, artists who work in fabric may like this piece in particular.

The Map is not the Territory

Pirate with no depth perception who has lost his reading glasses attempts to figure out where he buried the treasure. He is standing in front of a lovely piece of mail art sent to me by the redoubtable J.T. Steiny of Dog a Day.

J.T. Steiny/Creatures

This is art by J.T. Steiny, who has many visual observations and good advice to delight the eye on his highly recommnded website. It looks to me like an aging Pan who is still delighted by the creatures around him. It brought to mind (some of you may have heard this story before) the time I looked at a dragonfly which appeared to be actively taking me in, ie, rotating its head as if to gather information while perched on a leaf. 

    My sister, her husband and I once stopped to observe a snake, which turned around in the act of fleeing and consented to be observed when we stopped walking and discussed it in an interested way. I assume it was also taking us in. Maybe  it's pathetic fallacy, and maybe there are simply different modes of observation.

Dogs/NOT my illustration

This is by the enormously talented J.T. Steiny, you can see more of his dog philosophers, clowns and explorers here . He has several blogs, as he says, to cover multiple notional territories. Command central is here , and the highly recommended Jack and Buddha web comic is here. Genius!