Author: Kevin J. O'Conner

A straightforward description of any of my unsuccessful paintings… Flat color greenish black lacking detail texture struggles to come through the top layer sucking up all the light highlights flattened out through repetition and a dulled sense of when to stop (19 July 2018)

Inspired by a Twitter post… 1 There is a voice There is a voice conspicuous by its absence There is a voice conspicuous by its absence from the square where millions of voices blend together in a wall of noise 2 Against a wall of noise the scream knows no one will notice It goes [...]

Written while out and about this evening… How I feel about the slide depends on which patches of skin get burned on the way down If I find myself a pillow to land on there are places to rest and catch my breath I’m hoping that’s sand down there and that I land before it [...]

Not much more productive today, really… Somebody was talking about that one movie with Christopher Walken talking about driving at night, fighting the urge to steer the car into the oncoming headlights My urge doesn’t wait for night time it sneaks up on me late afternoon as I’m driving home from up north in clear [...]

Too hot today to come up with anything more substantial… My car is really dirty I wrote a poem to make that sound more important than it really is because a silver car gone green can be mistaken for camouflage but not ecology The poem doesn’t know that (15 July 2018)