Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • Life is swept along…

    “Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world’s bait and look for peace.” ~The Buddha Image: psalm 194, Spring Ice, Weston, oil painting by Roger Vincent Jasaitis, click to read more about this painting.

  • A Monks Garden

    “Shield me against my selfishness and my indifference to God and to my neighbor.” ~from the Novena to Saint Benedict Early spring at the Weston Priory, a Benedictine monastery in Vermont, the monks garden is spare. You will note the bricks in the foreground with the message to “pray”. How fitting you might think. In March, I…

  • Not all those who wander…

    “Not all those who wander are lost” J. R. R. Tolkien Another in the “lost” series of paintings “Olas Rosado”. This makes a couplet with “Daybreak“.

  • Icon or Art?

    Let me set the stage; The Buddha is 12 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, sitting cross-legged with fingertips and thumbs touching in it’s lap. It was carved from 11 pieces of wood and joined together. The room was 16 feet by 20 feet, with a 14 foot ceiling height, dimly lit by back-lighting. Other…

  • Surfs Up!

    I want to live in a country that does not condone hateful rhetoric and the encouragement of violence. I want to live in a country that does not permit torture and the bombing of civilians. I want to live in a country that encourages it’s citizens to live their dreams peacefully, even if a little…