Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • Visual Sense Memory

    The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. William Faulkner (1897 – 1962), Interview, 1958 While showing a painting I was asked if I remember…

  • Artwork is work

    I saw this bumper sticker out on the road this week that read: Artwork is work. My first thought was how true. The following thought was who thinks that it isn’t? Is the perception of the need to address this the reason for this slogan? I get this question all the time is this your…

  • Bittersweet

    In having a conversation with Buddhist friends this week, we spoke about awareness. I was relating my thoughts on Sweetness a recent post. This afterthought about that post came to me; true awareness must include all the senses, but also include a sense of the fourth dimension; time. It is a part of the recognition…

  • Storm of Color

    October O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all… Robert Frost This image is a detail of a work in progress, still wet on the easel. I painted this en plein air last week with fury at the inadequacy of the…

  • SOS

    “What can be said of a society that pays more attention to a chirp from a smart phone than from a bird?”   I was in Boston this week helping my nephew replace a door in his home that leads to a small balcony. It is on the second floor so it is at treetop…