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The AI Poet

In February our Head of Engineering posted that he had managed to “Break Gemini” and sent this humorous response from his AI chat noting that it continued ad infinitum: The Response Final check on empathy/candor: "You are asking the exact right architectural questions." matches well. Straightforward answers provided. honest. No hallucinated feelings. Done. Note: I am setting the energy level…

Vanitas by John J. deRoulet

VANITAS was shown in Spokane at the Kolva Sullivan gallery displaying work produced over the course of 2021 and 2022 along with 4 poems...

Process of a Painting: "Apotheosis of Psyche"

“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years,...

Value Profile: Humility

An exploration of the value of humility as told through the lens of characters we can imagine.

The Grounds

The process of constructing and preparing a canvas can take nearly as long as painting the painting itself. First the building, cutting,...

Meditation on Materials

When my friends visit my house, I always make a point to have them run a hand across the surface of a painting. Everyone secretly wants...

Sprague Diary (Inspiration for "Witness")

"Santana" 7/8/14 John deRoulet "Butter tinted sunlight dripping thickly through dusty air. 100 degrees and dry except for the cellophane...

Crafting a Response

“Part of the problem is that artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally...

Subject Matters

“After all, the error rests in the mistaken idea that the subject of a painting is the object painted.” – Robert Henri My current...

Vision Quest

Cover: Parnassus by Mark Tobey There is a show at the Seattle art museum on a group of artists coined the North West Mystics by a 1953...

Cool Thoughts

**Image: Jim Beam - J.B. Turner Train by artist Jeff Koons. "The sculpture was created in 1986 as part of a Jeff Koons exhibition called...

Short Meditation on Color

“Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent…When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over...

The Calling

"The Calling of St. Matthew" by Caravaggio, painted in 1600 AD for an Italian church named for the Saint is one of my favorite paintings....

Accessing the Inner Eye

"Everything has two aspects: the current aspect which we see nearly always and which ordinary men see, and the ghostly and metaphysical...

A Description of an Elusive Subject

“Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No thing is...

The Problem with Photography and Painting

"Still - in a way - nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes...

The Funeral and the Thirsty Fish

In October of last year, I came across a quote while meandering on reddit. It stopped my browsing in its tracks and I had to pause to...

Contemporary Painting

“Although the art world reveres the unconventional, it is rife with conformity. Artists make work that "looks like art" and behave in...

Lautrec and La Rouge

"I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record." -Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec The painting above is one of my absolute favorites....

Collecting Art

"I had a large collection of various artists, but there were no Picassos. Friends told me that I ought to buy at least one of his works,...