Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • Self Expression

      Our great slogan today is self-expression, and in the right sense of the work it is a genuine aim. But it is useless to talk about self-expression until we have got a self to express and we are all the time confronted by the question, which one of our thousand possible selves shall we…

  • Semper Fi

    This Memorial Day I am remembering my Father, Richard Anthony Jasaitis, who recently died. My Father had a bumper sticker on his car, it read Semper Fi. Semper Fi is the informal motto of the US Marine Corps. My Father was a Marine during WWII. He served in the south Pacific in the Marine Air…

  • Ode to Childhood

      I call this found sculpture Ode to Childhood. To me it represents that part of our lives when we are “provided for” and “decided for” by our parents. My Father, Richard Anthony Jasaitis, died this week. In his memory I am saluting him in that role as “provider and decider”. The one that bought…

  • Consciousness with a Crayon

    It was 50 years ago today that this photo was taken. I’m the tall guy in the back row, second from left. It was one day during this class I came to consciousness with a crayon in my hand. The reason that I bring this up is that recently my niece Rachel, for a high…

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