dear reader / a painting from the last chapter / Stan Berning
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Dear Reader,
‘about art’ was finished this last winter, the winter of ‘08/’09. After three years of effort I find myself with a novella.
The reviews have been mostly positive, though they inevitably begin with the disclaimer that this book is difficult to classify into a genre. For certain, it is an odd amalgam. But then, it is a memoir, my memoir, and, like everything else I have done in life, it was begun without knowing what shape its end might take.
I continue to write. I am thinking about another book but I’m not sure what a second one might look like. For now I will write my letters, emails, and blog. Perhaps something will develop.
And, of course, I continue to paint.
SB
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Here is a painting from the last chapter of ‘about art’.
This is a painting from the period described in the last chapter of the book. It is an oil pastel over ink drawings. Begun in 2006, I worked on this series of nearly 60 paintings/drawings of varied sizes through 2007.
They are the artifacts of an effort to exist completely in the moment.
