"Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken Friday night, December 11th, 2015, restroom at the Owl and Thistle, Post Alley, Seattle.

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"Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken Saturday evening, November 28th, 2015, exterior sign Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church, Phinney Ridge/Greenwood, Seattle.


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(Detail of Previous)

i am going to burn your playhouse down, dear, mark my words

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"I've Got An Aching In My Heart And Arson On My Mind"

Pen, masking tape, cellophane tape, glue, cocktail napkin, torn coaster, torn propaganda from my mother, torn paper on cardboard, 10.5 x 13.75 inches, Summer-Fall, 2015, Seattle.

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"The Night I Lost My Wife"

Set of four cocktails napkins, 5 inches x 5 inches each, pen, felt pen and lipstick.  Completed September 17th, 2015, in the Hunt Club at the Sorrento Hotel, Seattle; only that night we discovered that the name had been changed to the Dunbar Room after some twenty-five or thirty years.  Apparently it was the Dunbar Room for a few years in the early 60s.  And now you know.

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"Your Name Is Written In My Heart"

Pencil, pen, crayon, masking tape, torn newspaper, note paper, propaganda from my mother (torn and otherwise) on treated paper towel (courtesy of Danielle McArthur), approximately  11 x 8.5 inches, 2/22/15, Ould Triangle, Greenwood, Seattle.

"NE Corner of East 33rd Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan"

An original IBL photograph taken Saturday, October 24th, Manhattan.

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"My Franz Kline"

An original IBL photograph taken October, 2015, Gramercy Park, Manhattan.

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"They Call the Trans Mariah"

Original IBL art - newspaper and glue, 11.5 x 8.5 inches, September - October, 2015.

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"Baby Picture"

Original IBL art - pen, felt pen and scoring on photograph, 3.5 x 3.5 inches, 8/23/15.

January, 1964, Whittier, CA - August, 2015, Seattle, WA

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"Alien Landscape with Triangle"

An original IBL photograph taken Sunday, September 27th, 2015, Ould Triangle, Greenwood, Seattle.

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"Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken Thursday, October 1st, 2015, Tractor Tavern (Alejandro Escovedo LIVE), Ballard, USA.

(And, yes, cross - if you can't see it just back away from the screen and it will come to you, I do believe...)

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"SE Corner of Sussex Avenue W and Olympic Street S, Tenino, WA"

An original IBL photograph taken Sunday, September 6th, 2015, Tenino, WA.

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"Implied Threat"

An original IBL photograph taken Sunday, August 2nd, 2015, Little Red Hen, Green Lake, Seattle.

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If, Instead, the Song Had Been Called ...

... "Me and You and a Cat Named Wigger", would it have enjoyed a similar popularity? Perhaps more so in certain parts of the country? Discuss.

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"SW Corner of 6th Ave NW and NW 80th Street, Seattle, WA"

An original IBL photograph taken Thursday, July 2nd, 2015, Seattle, WA.

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"NE Corner of Fremont Ave N and N 78th Street, Seattle, WA"

An original IBL photograph taken late June, 2015, Greenwood, Seattle.

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"But Is It Good For the Jews?"

From late March of this year, pencil, pen and lipstick on about a 5x5 inch cocktail napkin.  Created special for one Caleb Dardick, with whom I saw the Coen Bros. film "A Simple Man" in Berkeley, CA and, during which, he repeatedly turned to me and asked the titular question.

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"Cameo, Self"

An original IBL photograph taken Friday, July 3rd, 2015, Conway Muse, Conway, WA

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"Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken Thursday, June 18th, 2015, Gordito's, Greenwood, Seattle.

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"Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken Sunday, June 14th, 2015, UIC-Halsted Station, Blue Line, Chicago.

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"Disrupted Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken Sunday, June 14th, 2015, Millennium Park, Chicago.

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"Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken Thursday, June 11th, 2015, S. Loomis Street in between W. Harrison and W. Flournoy Streets, Little Italy, Chicago.

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From "Borstal Boy" - Civility Costs Nothing

I sat beside Charlie.  Opposite us, in the Black Maria, was a red-haired boy of my own age, and a small man with a broken nose, a cauliflower ear, and a begrudging look.  He was going up for kicking his wife.  He was not unfriendly, and told me his name was Donohoe.  I said that by a coincidence that was my mother's name.  It was not her name, but civility costs nothing.

Brendan Behan.

Gerard Manley "Lightning" Hopkins

Together again for the first time.

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"Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken Thursday, June 4th, 2015, Quarter Lounge, First Hill, Seattle (chalk original by Your Humble Narrator).

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"Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken Thursday, June 4th, 2015, Downtown Seattle (Madison and 3rd-ish).

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"NE Corner of Greenwood Avenue N and N Greenwood Circle, Seattle, WA"

An original IBL photograph taken Sunday, May 24th, Greenwood, Seattle.

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Danielle and Chester Out on the Deck A Week Ago Thursday

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"Basquiat Cross"

An original IBL photograph taken May 9th, 2015, Greenwood, Seattle.

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(Untitled)

An original IBL photograph taken April 27th, 2015, Green Lake, Seattle.

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When You Say "Ellen Degenerate", What I Hear Is

Martin Luther Coon.


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This Morning on the Deck in Greenwood, Seattle

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I Detest Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

Possibly the only musical artist of whom I can honestly say this.  But because you visit infection by light mostly for the honesty, I thought you should know.  It just seemed important.

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"I Am the Man Who Pans For Gold, But Without a Pan, and There Was Never Any Gold"

Pencil, pen and lipstick on cocktail napkin, 5 x 5 inches, 3/14/15, Gainsbourg, Greenwood, Seattle.

It is not impossible I have been drawing crosses for these several years only to arrive at this one.

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(Untitled Original IBL Art)

Pencil, pen and crayon on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, 11/25/12, Seattle.

This had been sitting around for awhile and then the other day I looked at it for the millionth time and thought, you know, actually that one might be done.  Whatever that means.

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"No No,Dear - This is the Dream, You're Still in the Cell"

Crayon, white-out, glue and torn propaganda from my mother on coaster, 3.5 x 3.5 inches, completed 4/19/15, Ould Triangle, Greenwood, Seattle.  (Though the "frame" on the coaster was completed on 12/15/12 at the Little Red Hen, Green Lake, Seattle, and I'd been waiting for something appropriate to put inside.)

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"And the Sky Was All Violets"

Pen and colored pencil on coaster, 3.5 x 3.5 inches, 3/7/15, Greenwood, Seattle.

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"Satellite of Love"

Pencil, pen, felt pen, lipstick, matches and glue on cocktail napkin, 5 x 5 inches, 3/8/15, Ould Triangle, Greenwood, Seattle.

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(Untitled Original IBL Art)

Matches, torn matchbook, glue and pencil on cocktail napkin, 4.5 x 4.5 inches, 3/8/15, Ould Triangle, Greenwood, Seattle.

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(Untitled Original IBL Art)

Matches, glue and pen on cocktail napkin, 5 x 5 inches, 3/8/15, Ould Triangle, Greenwood, Seattle.

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"And His Dad Just Happened To Be Wrong About Everything"

Soon to be residing in the home of Paul Romano of San Francisco, California (we hope).

Pencil, colored pencil and felt pen on cocktail napkin, 4.75 x 4.75 inches, 3/8/15, Ould Triangle, Greenwood, Seattle.

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"First Draft Ad Campaign for Stanley and Seafort's, Tacoma (Rejected)"

Soon to be residing in the home of Lynn Charles Riser of Tacoma, Washington (we hope).

Lipstick and ink on cocktail napkin, 5 x 5 inches, 3/21/15, Gainsbourg, Greenwood, Seattle.

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(Untitled Original IBL Art)

This could be YOURS if you want it.  All you have to do is ask.

Lipstick and pencil on coaster, 3.5 x 3.5 inches, 3/21/15, Gainsbourg, Greenwood, Seattle.

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And Again With the Editorializing in the Name of the Lord

Because there's a cross there, sure there is.  I know that because it took me about 8 snaps to get the right proportions on the damn thing.  The liberal church across the street from us in Greenwood, Seattle, is the setting.  Apparently at least this version of the Methodists understands the concept of that whole "Jesus' Love" thing.

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Since Everybody Else Likes to Speak for Jesus All the Time ...

... we here at infection by light thought we'd go ahead and get our two cents in -

Everybody in, as you well know by now...

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"Calvary"

An original IBL photograph taken April 4th, 2015, Belltown, Seattle.

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"Satellite of Love"

At the Ould Triangle, Greenwood, Seattle, about three Sunday afternoons ago, I was doing that shit that I do with napkins and crosses, and there was a fine country band playing, and, as I discovered later, a woman at the bar had been trying to get my attention for awhile (I was sitting at a table in the window).

When the music was over she stopped by and said (as previously indicated), "I was trying to get your attention."  I said something like, "Okay, great," because what was there to say? "What are you doing?" she asked.  I tried to explain it, as briefly as possible.  "Do you sell them?" she asked.  "Well wouldn't that be something," I said.  "Maybe some day."  Then she asked, "Can I have one?" (I'd done maybe 6 brand new ones at that point, new styles on an old theme.)  So I told her that none of them were really DONE, but I chose one that I liked the least (that is to say it was the one that was the least complete, the one that was most in the "that's not quite right but I'll figure it out at some point" stage) and I said, sure, why don't you have this one.  She was ecstatic (like the Holy Women became ecstatic after Christ's death and resurrection, especially in certain European paintings).  To be honest, it made me happy, too.  I took a quick snap in case I wanted to remake it, and you can see it below.

Tore the ends off five matches for the wounds and then simply taped them to the napkin.  Then took two of the leftover matchsticks and made a smaller cross which was glued in place.  It seemed clear to me what the title was immediately after placing the smaller cross. 

Moral Dilemma #5

Though your backyard is fenced in and/or you never let him/her out of your sight and/or off his/her leash, your dog has gone missing.  So you post flyers on telephone poles in your neighborhood and a variety of other places throughout the city with a photo of your dog, and a phone number to contact you in case anybody sees him/her.  Days go by, then weeks, then months - but nothing; till this very day, nothing.


Though you have countless pictures of your dog saved to your phone and, it goes without saying, photos of him/her in every room in the house, do you then retrace your steps throughout the city to count the number of remaining flyers, to see that pooch's priceless mug in a public context if only because each time you see it, you are reminded anew of the day you distributed his/her image, and how hopeful you were?


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Moral Dilemma #4

Though you never let him/her out of your house because he/she is not that kind of a cat, nonetheless you have searched everywhere inside and he/she has gone missing.  So you post flyers on telephone poles in your neighborhood and a variety of other places throughout the city with a photo of your cat, and a phone number to contact you in case anybody sees him/her.  A few days later (and I'd prefer to skirt the specifics to be perfectly honest), you receive the unhappy information that your cat is no more.



Do you then retrace your steps throughout the city to remove all of the flyers you have frantically posted?


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Moral Dilemma #3

Though you never let him/her out of your house because he/she is not that kind of a cat, nonetheless you have searched everywhere inside and he/she has gone missing.  So you post flyers on telephone poles in your neighborhood and a variety of other places throughout the city with a photo of your cat, and a phone number to contact you in case anybody sees him/her.  Happily, there is a phone call just the next  morning - your cat is safe and sound after illicitly entering through a pet door and spending the night in someone's laundry room.  There is a joyful reunion a short time later, though to be honest it appears to be a one-sided affair in terms of emotional energy.



Do you then retrace your steps throughout the city to remove all of the flyers you have frantically posted?


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Moral Dilemma #2

Though your backyard is fenced in and/or you never let him/her out of your sight and/or off his/her leash, your dog has gone missing.  So you post flyers on telephone poles in your neighborhood and a variety of other places throughout the city with a photo of your dog, and a phone number to contact you in case anybody sees him/her.  Happily, there is a phone call just the next  morning - your dog is safe and sound after spending the night on someone's lanai.  There is a reunion a short time later - see him/her racing across the lawn to greet you and then sloppily licking your face with joy as you throw your arms around him/her?



Do you then retrace your steps throughout the city to remove all of the flyers you have frantically posted?


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Moral Dilemma #1

Cats and dogs, living together.


What to do?


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"A Murder of One"

An original photo by Peeber taken in Lafayette, CA on Sunday, January 18th, 2015.  He kindly allowed that it could grace the pages of IBL for its world premiere.  Though he may have, you know, texted it here and there a time or two.  I wouldn't care to comment on that.

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"Tenaciency" - Noun

The tendency to be tenacious.


(I overheard someone mis-speak and create this word; I supplied the definition.)


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(Untitled)

An original IBL photograph taken December 21st, 2014, Green Lake, Seattle.

"Flag"

An original IBL photograph taken January 4th, 2015, Greenwood, Seattle.