Taken at the artist’s reception January 3, 2014    

Works from the Terra Firma collage & mixed media series with Chautauqua, NY, soil “Mom, you’re too creative,” bemoaned my young son years ago when we had spread out over the entire kitchen floor creating a paper mache werewolf mask for Halloween. How much creativity is too much creativity? What is creativity? Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and other books on human development, writes: “We tend to think of creativity

Today I saw an exhibition in a Santa Fe gallery entitled Seeing Red. This reminded me of a play I saw several weeks ago in Sarasota entitled Red by John Logan about Mark Rothko. This, in turn, reminded me of a day I spent with another illustrious artist, Agnes Martin. It was a dry, hot day in the summer of 1980 and I was staying in the village of Galisteo, south of Santa Fe where I