* ...the sound of my daughter's laugh. thats what today will be for me. just over 3 months old and now i have heard that beautiful beautiful sound.

and in abundance.

life is good.

* the De kooning retrospective at MOMA is as it should be- a splendid offering of a great artist's lifes work laid out for us. if makes it very very easy to see how far we've fallen in terms of true ambition and realization- our polaroids and installations amount to little more than party favors for a party that means nothing outside of the fact that i wouldn't get invited and wouldn't go if i did...

* a new body of work cooking in the studio. much painting and re-working... but thats a good thing. even my mom told me tonight on the phone, "it's part of the process..."