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All posts by “Eugene Knapik”
The Partners
Basketeers 2014
Regular visitors to this blog may recall that for several years Tuffy P has been a supporter of Basketeers. From the Basketeers website: It’s hard to believe that one small idea in the year 2000 to support women leaving the shelter system, would turn into… Read More
Le Soleil est Levé
Time for a shot of creole button accordion music. I know you’ve been waiting for it…. Here’s Cedric Watson performing Le Soleil est Levé Mr. Watson is also a fiddler and recently some videos featuring him playing gourd banjo have appeared on the YouTube. Here… Read More
Out back
The Architect
Here’s another blast from the past. This is an oil painting I made back in the 80s. It’s an oil painting. I don’t recall the exact size – I think it is around 3 feet wide. I don’t have much to say about this painting… Read More
Coyote
I took the dogs out for our after dinner walk this evening as usual. We headed over toward the water filtration plant on the other side of 23rd St. My plan was to walk over to the edge of the hill and see if there… Read More
Tecumseh Valley
We’re always making value judgements, and we do it at lightning speed. I like this, I don’t care for that, that’s ok, oh no, not that. We do it about art and music and literature and everything else. I’m OK with that. For instance with… Read More
Underground
I’ve been thinking about a series of paintings I made quite a number of years ago called Underground, so I thought I’d share one of these images tonight. Underground is actually a title I’ve applied to other paintings as well, and I suspect at some… Read More
Serenade to a Cuckoo
These days I’ve been listening to a lot of stringband music, as regular visitors to this joint can attest. Still sometimes I need a dose of jazz, I need to hear the horns, those fantastic extensions of the human voice. Here’s Rahsaan Roland Kirk performing… Read More
27th Street 