Unhinged as they are, if you take them apart and place them at different vantage points in your nearest ancient cathedral, thus making it possible to meet these three saints on their own terms, I think you will find them remarkably familiar, and in a personal way that leads you to consider some of your own saintly behavior — the doors you hold open for others; the children whose shoes […]
There they are at the window, each knowing what the other knows, but knowing it so differently, that, without each other, their knowledge would be incomplete. The truth is, they depend so fully on each other that they are really one, not two. And so what we have here is our human story in miniature. ~ [ 1969 ]
And Man probably reveals more about me than it does the human condition, though I can’t separate myself from that condition, and wouldn’t care to if I could. I don’t want to see myself as something apart from everyone and everything else. If I’m lucky, I’ll rise as far as the condition allows, while it’s clear by this drawing I have already fathomed its depths. There’s a key element here: […]
The face on the right might be appropriate for a volume about ancient Rome; the one on the left looks almost as old, as if a monk long ago had seen it in a dream — or maybe the dreamer was drawn by another monk while he was asleep. Or maybe both were asleep. Either way, however it happened, I myself awoke from a dream this morning in which I […]
I have no idea what possessed me, just as I have no idea what possesses me now. Possessed, in the way a leaf or bubble is possessed by a slowly moving river, just before it reaches the falls. Three Drawings — I invite you to look at these. At the time they were first published, very few did, Poems, Notes, and Drawings then being only in its third installment. I […]
A clear, starry morning. Two large raccoonsand one small coyote — which makes me wonder:should I really be up at such an early hour? August 16, 2022 Canvas 1,278 August 16, 2022 . [ 1522 ]
William Michaelian 