APONOVICH 52: September 2014

Friday, September 5, 2014

A NEW BLOG !

On a Balcony in Panicale

( photo: Stew Vreeland)

I have started a new blog.

It occurred to me that where I live in Peterborough, New Hampshire and where I "live" in Panicale, Umbria ( Italy) are on both on the same latitude, the 43rd Parallel.

I paint, draw, cook, and eat in both places, and each town although an ocean apart have an influence on my work and art.

Follow along on the journey.

I will do a weekly post, for at least the next year.

Here is the link:

Aponovich 43 / Parallel Lives: A Transatlantic Journal

JAMES APONOVICH

Artists, by the nature of their work, are solitary. Our most important hours are invisible to the public, days of quiet work, both exultant and tortured. We are judged not by our effort but by the end product...the art.

But most art is not entirely successful; it only points the way for improving on the next attempt. A painting is only finished when there is nothing else one can do to make it any better. True success is simply starting again, striving for something ineffable, unrealized and unimagined.