Self-absorbed Boomer isn’t that self-absorbed. This week he has an interview with Brooklyn artist Mark Crawford. Here’s an excerpt. And go to SAB for more.

“I’m not an angry person,” Mark Crawford said, his pleasantly modulated
voice revealing his Midwestern origin. He was responding to my
observation, perhaps prompted by its New York Post headline-like title, that his painting, Wolfowitz Doomed,
seemed to me a visual expression of ire. Looking at that painting, seen
above, again, I saw that my eye had first been caught by the slashes of
red and their contrast with the dark ground on which they are arranged,
but had not focused on the broad swaths of white that overlay them,
some with descending rivulets that “droppeth as the gentle rain from
heaven.”