Thanks for the quote about children’s art. I use it here on Child and Art.

Thanks for redoing the url. The O’Regan and Noe article linked to from your blog on seeing is fascinating. I didn’t read it all, but what I read reminded me of something Nancy Hale’s mother said (Hale’s mother was a highly successful portrait painter in the 1920’s) — I paraphrase — “some people think their eyes are useful only to avoid running into doors.”

The postulates of the article seem to say that if you don’t experience a visual attribute that you won’t recognize it — that’s what made me think of the idea expressed by Hale’s mother; some people think of art only as photographs rendered in paint, visuals of doors that they can open and/or avoid running int. They can’t see anything else.

Perhaps sometime you can post further on the ramifications of that bit of science in the world of visual arts.

http://simplisticart.blogspot.com/2006/11/painting-post-with-little-deviation.html

I couldn’t get to your self-portrait and would like to see it. Would you check the url? And I’ll keep trying.

Karl, oh mercy! of course it’s Znafu. Whatever have I been thinking?

Well, I know what I’ve been thinking, and now I stand corrected. I love the language play.

The site is not SNAFU, but Znafu. Here is a link to your Znafu site. It’s looking great!

Your favorite quote hits the mark for me. I put up a couple of very different images on my SNAFU site while I was playing around, each of which was some kind of self-portrait. And these were only a couple of the representational pieces that I’ve done. I could have gone on with a whole series of Interiors, which are also self-portraits, albeit obscure to all but myself.

So do you do self-portraits in which you play the bonviant and the lascivious maid?