Sunday, November 2, 2008

Two Onions app 4x8 1/2 oil on wood pnel


Onions are indispensable. Carl Sandburg wrote: "Life is like an onion, you peel it off one layer at a time; and sometimes you weep". The Pilgrims brought them over on the Mayflower, but when they landed they found the Indians already had them under cultivation. They seemed to have been developed simultaneously wherever they would thrive.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

Two Eggs 5 1/2x6 3/4 oil on wood panel


Scientists, professors, metaphysicists and other blowhards have been pondering the age old question of whether the chicken came first, or the egg. It is either very important or very unimportant. An old joke had an answer: a chicken and an egg were in bed together - in the Biblical sense - and the chicken rolled over and lit a cigarette. The egg said to itself, "well, I guess that answers the question". You can E-mail me at artistjohnwlong@live.com