These pictures are competitions, visual contests between man and nature. I’ve been seeking these “fights” lately. They’re everywhere.

The Atomium. A building that simply does not take a bad picture. Don’t be fooled—it’s not a new restaurant at LAX. It’s in Brussels, and a must see you for anyone interested in 20th Architecture, make that futuristic architecture as well. Designed by André Waterkeyn. Built in 1958 for the International Exhibition of Brussels. 102 meters high and based off of an iron molecule magnified 165 billion times. It reopened in February of this year.

Just returned from a trip to Brussels. I have to say, Belgium is a great city for graffiti, street art and comics (has a comic museum to prove it, although I wasn’t as impressed with the museum as with what I saw on the streets and in bookstores. Here’s a great place for comics, it’s called Brusel (Boulevard Anspachlaan 100 Bruxelles 1000 Belgium (www.brusel.com). Check it out when you’re there. They had a signed Chis Ware print in the window…

Here’s my Dad surfing at York Beach in Maine, back in the late seventies. Any more pictures of parents in water?

I’ve been looking at images of my parents lately, trying to figure out a possible film or photo project.
I think it’s imperative that artists explore the subject of family no matter how corny or banal it may seem.
The first of our teachers, our folks are the complex beginning. For many of us it’s a place far away or a terrrible trudge to even think about.