Category Archives: Gallery

Display of my paintings and works by family.

‘Distraught Toddler’

Posted on September 8, 2021 by JMN

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Rooster Feathers

Posted on July 20, 2021 by JMN

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Adoration of the Cat

Posted on June 1, 2021 by JMN

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A hoary plot line of melodrama reduces the hero and heroine to dire straits; they’ve tried everything in their power to escape doom; the soundtrack crescendos in a minor key. “Pray,” he says. “It’s in God’s hands. Only a miracle … Continue reading →

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Word of Thanks

Posted on April 27, 2021 by JMN

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A glance tells me this blog started in April 2018. This is April 2021. An anniversary month invites breaking the fourth wall for a moment. Brokenly, the endeavor here is twofold: (1) to practice writing; (2) to practice translating. I … Continue reading →

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Colors of Number

Posted on January 23, 2021 by JMN

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Oneis orange, the color of Sunas she sets and rises.Twois blue, a hue Sky fakesfor inattentive irises. Threeis the olivescent greenof a certain stand of tree.Fouris a dour English colour,Marmite and chocolate fudgey. Fiveis alive with unexpected yellowlike engine oil … Continue reading →

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Carta a Nuria

Posted on January 7, 2021 by JMN

Te pongo aquí un cuadro reciente, tonto y burlón, mal logrado por supuesto, de ejecución turbia, hiciera lo que hiciera. Está pintado sobre otro cuadro que hizo tu abuelo, mi papá. El suyo fue un desnudo masculino sentado, visto de … Continue reading →

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Lineation Meditation 1

Posted on December 17, 2020 by JMN

… If a clodbe washed awayby the sea,Europeis the lessas well as ifa promontory were,as well as ifa manor of thy friendsor thine ownwere… In free verse, are line breaks the product of daemonic possession? Sovereign whim? Delphic insight into … Continue reading →

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‘Whenever I Feel Bad…’

Posted on October 6, 2020 by JMN

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred that one bears for the other. In … Continue reading →

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The Forest and the Trees

Posted on September 29, 2020 by JMN

I had a photograph of a forest. A Sherwood of a forest — florescent, bosky, a thing you can’t make up. And I made up a Mickey fantasia of a forest — florid, tumescent, burnt down with color and intricate … Continue reading →

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A Texas Artist

Posted on September 17, 2020 by JMN

From The Shed Art Studio Collection. (c) 2020 JMN

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