Persona (Psychology) (in Jungian psychology) the mechanism that conceals a person’s true thoughts and feelings, esp in his adaptation to the outside world.
An exercise in vanity, art and design. A container for a primal scream, as not to wake my neighbors, or scare my loved ones. A colorful container for photos and text.
Feeling a bit faceless on Facebook, my own presence and domain.
What else? I take my coffee with cream.
I was born on the winter solstice 1962, and the year of the cat. Also a year which began to show shadowy hints of waning modernism and the ending American dream. I came of age in the 80′s, which was by then complete postmodernism, but it wasn’t until I moved to San Francisco in 2002 that I could make some sense of postmodernism, art and the world of the 21st century.
Cosmo Demonic. A fictional telephone and telegraph company in New York City from Henry Miller’s “Tropic of Capricorn”
Bacchantes are pleased when I create; destructive when I do not.
2:02 pm, May 7, 2011santa /
Wow! he”s a real artist! Very creative! I get the impression he is an intellectual, just by what he writes and his interests.
12:15 pm, May 12, 2011gail /
“I love your toothpaste and tooth brush photos!”
12:18 pm, May 12, 2011Sugar Horse /
‘Hey hey hey . . . . very nice update from the older blog page. You Rock Johnny. You inspire me to do more than eat the daily hay this worlds pushes in front of my face to feed upon! Wow – like a demigod, I neigh before you.
12:31 pm, May 12, 2011Karl O /
Oh it is completely cool! Congratulations on the new site (I like the persona piece a lot).
12:34 pm, May 12, 2011Jane /
The photographs are extraordinary. The city comes so alive when you show us how you see it; there”s a serious vibrancy in all the street art and in the juxtaposed architecture. This is a beautiful site!