by Warren Gaston | Apr 23, 2023
Celebrating Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) Cezanne, out with his easel near Aix-en-Provence, painted gravity with a light brush, coaxing round density out of apples, the angular geometry of men playing cards, mountain massiveness pitted against civilized sight. Sensation is...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 13, 2023
panta rhei In a day’s time, certainly in a week’s, neither I nor the mirror will remain the same. The mirror will not recognize me. No residual impression, no lasting elaborate smudge, no fascial echo, no reflexive wake. What was once Heraclitus is somewhat...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 10, 2023
E-stir – energy animates the inanimate, a stand against the renunciation of the body, a shout from the ghost ravaged grave. The corporeal scandalizes the corpse. _________________________________________________________________ What had been loosed from the folded...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 8, 2023
To be a conservative, first, know what you’re conserving. Value or privilege. If value, best spread it everywhere. If privilege, best guard against loss. Privilege is a pie. Only so many slices. Too much sharing and the pie is gone. Value is atomic, it empowers when...
by Warren Gaston | Apr 6, 2023
It’s not easy, climbing up, climbing out, of trenches, out of mind grooves. Out of rutted comforts. The walls, dug steep, brief horizon slight view favorable to me. I see that I like what I see.
by Warren Gaston | Mar 28, 2023
A fist of words, gloves off, sock the eyes of the ear & the ears of the eye. The punched mind jerks not deflecting to safety but reflecting on what can be learned from the...
