year-end reckoning: these are pages of my large journal showing the layout of four triptychs, dated 2005.  two are done:  Upper page: “Exton” completed for the at Berman Museum rexhibition in 2002, at the top;  “Tucker’s Town” at Masterworks Foundation, Berrmuda in 2006, third from the top.  the plan is a triptych every four years, with series of studies on various aspects of the triptych in the intervening years. Lower page: “Radnor” and “Venture” are works in progress, then, and having spent this past year curating five exhibitions at Woodmere Art Museum, I am behind on that plan.  Hosta series, based on part of “Venture”, and my obsession with the Vander Weyden diptych at PMA involved with the “Radnor” studies, are not so much impediments to completion of the triptychs as necessary to their evolution.

*Moleskine (mol-a-skeen’-a) is a popular brand of notebook manufactured by Moleskine Srl, an Italian company. Although the name implies otherwise, the notebook is not bound in moleskin, but in oilcloth-covered cardboard. Other distinct features include an elastic band to hold the notebook closed, a sewn spine that allows it to lie flat when opened, rounded corners, a ribbon bookmark and an expandable pocket inside the rear cover. Matisse carried one. Also Hemingway. I carry my moleskine in my wallet where ever I go.

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