The Bodmer Oak, Fontainbleau Forest ` Claude Monet c.1865

Work In Life














I felt the ABC, as illustrated non-fiction, can be developed a bit, out of care.



It was meaningful to explore forest paths; to talk about what’s there and who we are, return from that, and make picture stories of the adventure, and be relaxed.




'Abc Dadb' elements first gathered together, in the context of a verse writing class (Robert Morgan), drawing class (Zevi Blum), and oil painting class (Gillian Pederson-Krag), at Cornell, working at The Temple of Zeus Cafe, in Goldwin-Smith Hall. The start of it was coupling talk about summer with drawings of life in Ithaca, using watercolors and colored pencils too.


This was made in summer 1976, following graduation from Cornell.

"Art is just another word for feeling." John Constable