More pages from the Four Year Journal

More of the Four Year Journal

I imagine another four years will pass before I finish putting the pages of the Four Year Journal onto my blogs and various online presences.

The Four Year Journal

Burning World

Flowering Stigmata

The Four Year Journal, Installment 2

What is Memory? 

The Pit of Souls

The Pit of Souls, another view.

I like fluorescent paint, among other things. 

The Four Year Journal, 2008-2012

So I have finished virtually every page of this journal that I've been working in since spring 2008. I photographed the pages today, but I did so inside and I don't like all of the photos so I'll have to post the pictures slowly and carefully and will probably re-photograph the pages again and again.

Now, this is how I work. I usually have one main journal that I work in. I usually choose it according to an overwhelming need or desire that I have  at the time. When I chose this one, I was looking at lots of paintings by Tintoretto. A lot of his paintings have a horizontal composition and feature lots of figures doing lots of things, like washing people's feet and finding babies in bulrushes.  I thought it would be fun to do similar compositions using figures observed in the subway, because I spend about two to three  hours going somewhere, everyday. The pages measure eleven inches by 14 inches so its a real commitment to carry it around.  In additon to the main journal, I have numerous other journals that I work in, based on distractions. So it takes me years to really finish with a journal. During the time I worked on the Four Year Journal, I worked also on The Book of Torsoes, The Journal of Mediterranean Travel ( Italy and Lebanon), The Face Book, Volumes One and Two and  The Book of Obscured Meditations.

Three Types of Oracles

"Three Types of Oracles"  Watercolor and goauche on paper. This will travel to Santiago, Chile in the next week.

Vanitas, Part Thirteen

Vanitas, the back cover.

Finally, Part Thirteen, the last part.