Massless

I was recently engrossed by an interview with Wayne Thiebaud on NPR. Wayne, an octogenarian, is an accomplished American painter from California who is having his first retrospective on the East Coast. Kind of pop art, but kind of not. If you listen to the interview you can hear others explain his art much better than I ever will.

He drew/painted San Francisco quite a bit. Very angular and steep. So many sharp edges and buildings like jagged cliff faces that seem forced from the earth like mountain ranges.

There is never snarled, heavy traffic in his representations of San Francisco.

Hearing him talk reminded me a great deal of my dad. They both worked as teachers. And they talk so much alike. Their speech is similar in so many ways: Intonation, sense of humor, cadence, pace.

Dad now has his own site. Fer Cryin' Out In The Night. He's an internet newbie's newbie and he just might even update the thing. :)