Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • A Visual Valentine

    This is a portrait in oils that I just finished of Nancy and Tinker. Nancy is the love of my life, a lifelong friend, and my wife. Everyone who knows Nancy loves her. They can’t help it, she is just that kind of person. She radiates compassion for all beings…especially the four-legged variety. She is…

  • Art, Accident vs. Intent-Part 2

    Hill and valley and still water, mountain and canyon and deep are the work of one creation; and why have I been placed in it? And what do I do in it, with such a little while before I am gone? The valley stays, and the hills I climb now, and the still waters run,…

  • Art, Accident vs. Intent

    Hill and valley and still water, mountain and canyon and deep are the work of one creation; and why have I been placed in it? And what do I do in it, with such a little while before I am gone? The valley stays, and the hills I climb now, and the still waters run,…

  • What do they have in common?

             What do these images have in common? There is a town on the coast of Italy, west of Rome, near the mouth of the River Tiber called Ostia. I should say, the ruins of a Roman town called Ostia Antica. It was a Roman seaport town that reached its peak during…

  • The Adventures of Jesus & Gemini

    I had a dream. I rarely remember dreams… This dream I could not forget. But, what do you do with dreams? The images and message in this dream are nothing like my wide awake world. Hence, the creation of this page: The Adventures of Jesus and Gemini. Imagine that Jesus of Nazareth had a twin…