Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • Artistic Freedom

    I was having a conversation with  Nancy (my wife) and Matthew (the poet) about his new poem A Little Winter Sutra. He was explaining the structure that defines his new work, a tanka, an ancient Japanese form. It occurred to me to then to consider how structure and creativity go hand in hand. Think about…

  • New spex, new self portrait…

    I recently received a new pair of eyeglasses so I thought that I would update my online image. This self portrait plays with the line between painting and photography. Introspection vs. extrospection (yes, it is a word you scrabble players). To blur the line between the subject and the artist on screen.

  • Octavio Paz and the war on drugs…

    Otoño El viento despierta, barre los pensamientos de mi frente y me suspende en la luz que sonríe para nadie: ¡cuánta belleza suelta! Otoño: entre tus manos frías el mundo llamea.  Octavio Paz Here is my translation: Autumn The wind awakes, sweeps the thoughts from my mind and I am suspended in the light that…

  • The Meaning of Thanksgiving

    Pigment dispersion syndrome. I thought that was what all painters have. You take some pigment and disperse it around a surface. But no, although an ironic name in my case, it is a rare disease of the eye that I was diagnosed with this week. Not to worry, it is slow-moving and although not directly…

  • Cause, for a Hurricane

    If you have read my bio you know that I lived on the Jersey Shore for many years. It took a direct hit from hurricane Sandy a short time ago. I have many family members and friends that are struggling with the devastation that has befallen the region. My heart goes out to them all.…