cafe selavy

Expanding my painterly palette.  You may remember the photograph from which this took shape.  She was one of those who came to the studio ov...

This is just to say. . .  I'm all turned around.   My mother made some improvements yesterday.  She was more lucid.  She was able to use...

This was my view for hours yesterday while my mother was in surgery.  I knew my mother was having surgery, but I didn't know when.  I wa...

I wake up every morning now to the same day.  I'm exhausted.  There will be no relief.  I carry on, dutiful and muddled.  Each day I won...

I'm unimaginably tired.  My mind isn't working well, either.  I feel lost and confused.  I keep going but I am like a rat on a wheel...

Mother's in the hospital.  MRI showed yet another collapsed vertebra, L3.  She will be there for awhile, then she will go to a short ter...

My mother has been in constant pain for awhile now.  She is up all night moaning and taking pills.  It keeps me awake.  Last night, she said...

To revisit such a scene, quiet, moody, melancholy and contemplative.  Beautiful.  Again, created from one of my photos, but I don't thin...

I just want to post again tonight.  I've gone down the rabbit hole, obviously, but all of these illustrations are based on photos I have...

To distract myself, I've been working with images in ChatGPT.  Most of the time, I am told that what I have requested lies outside the b...

Don't ever tempt the fates by saying, "I don't think my life could get any worse."  Trust me.  It can.   I'm breaking ...

I can't seem to get a break.  Everything's coming up Jokers.  I got a call from the carpenter just as I was getting out of bed.  Bad...

"Jesus marimba. That looks like a vision from the planet distopia. WTF? Feel free not to share more of that work." That from my co...

I'll give you something other than illustrations of my photographs today.  Not everyone is as crazy about them as I am, I'm certain....

Just got internet back at my mother's house. Nightmare.  But it is done.  This won't be long.  I need to do some things and can'...

"What did you do to piss God off?" Beats me, but I must be doing it again.  As you know, I'm camping at my mother's house....