Making paintings about light, covered things.

Adriaen van der Spelt (Dutch, 1630-1673)
Frans van Mieris (Dutch, 1635-1681)

Trompe-l'Oeil Still Life with a Flower Garland and a Curtain, 1658

I'm working on a painting of a covered window right now. The painting on the right has been on my mind for a while. I had wished there had been more curtain, so that the still life was harder to see. It is from the Art Institute of Chicago's collection.

I'm always telling my students about Uncanny Valley

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/16/tom-the-dancing-bug-billy-da.html

A Poem by Jerzy Ficowski

A Poem by Polish author, Jerzy Ficowski about his relationship with the Holocaust, written in the 1980's.

I did not manage to save

a single life

I did not know how to stop

a single bullet

and I wander round cemeteries

which are not there

I look for words

which are not there

I run

to help where no one called

to rescue after the event

I want to be on time

even if I am too late

Painters I like: Hanneline Rogeberg

Some of her paintings are great. I don't like the figure ones as much, but the obscured/covered thing she is doing is exactly what I'm interested in.