Doodle of the Day - Check Yourself at the Self-Checkout

I often go to the hardware store to buy supplies. Recently, I was at Lowe's Home Improvement, that giant warehouse with just a few employees, and noticed the store only had one person working as cashier. The only other option was to use a self-checkout machine.

The line with the live cashier was a winding, slow-moving train of people with carts full of miscellaneous items, big and small. I only needed to buy a couple pieces of wood, so I opted to use the self-checkout machine. But the line for the self-checkout machine was surprisingly slow too. Technology ain't always what it's made out to be. The guy in front of me almost lost it...

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The Wetland in Winter

Wetland in Winter, 48" x 30", hanging scroll, fabric, oil on canvas, 2011.

Influenced by ancient Chinese and Japanese painting, this work eliminates wooden stretcher bars and incorporates the decorative scroll presentation. But I have adhered to oil on canvas, rather than the ink on rice paper of traditional scrolls. And as the ancient eastern paintings often depicted objective and subjective representations of a nature scene, this work is a continuation of my abstract portrayals of an idea or feeling, moving beyond recognizable images and familiar forms that may be explained by language. It is giving form to something incomprehensible.