Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • 36 Miles of Trouble

    Silent stone sentinel, some-time span, sitting splitting stream, some 600 seasons, seven score summers, seven score snows, slowly surrendering, senescent slide, someday soon, slipping seaward… This painting 36 Miles of  Trouble includes an ancient railroad trestle abutment that sits in the West River. 36 Miles of Trouble was the nickname for the old West River…

  • e pluribus unum

    Let us not forget the motto of these our United States of America; e pluribus unum, out of many, one. The following words from the Declaration of Independence, approved by Congress on this date in 1776, should make us pause to consider what our past has been and what our future holds; …the population of…

  • Reincarnation

     The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 King James Version Do you believe in reincarnation? The idea to incarnate again or to give bodily form or substance to something…

  • Voluptuousness and Pride

    Painting pictures appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling , insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind …it is the inseparable companion of voluptuousness and pride. Edward Hicks (Quaker 1780 –1849) I had a dream this week. In this dream I stood in a Quaker Meetinghouse and built…

  • Etymology Of A Color

    “I must have been 7 or 8, squatting on the summer-hot pavement with my sister, scrawling disappearing messages on the concrete with snapped leaves of an ice plant, when it occurred to me that people could agree on the name of a thing, in this case, a color — the green of the translucent fluid…