tree man

Scott was a tree man. Every year we’d go to Charleston just to hug the trees at Middleton and Boone Hall plantations. He captured the live oaks beautifully with his watercolors. The sweet little painting above was inspired by one of those trips. Scott often repurposed packaging materials and transformed them into art. The series above, […]

happy birthday, riz

Scott best buddy from AIS high school in New Delhi is having a birthday today. Dan Rizzie is also the number one commenter on this blog, always taking time out to respond while Scooter was alive and continuing to do so as I put back the pieces of my life. Here is a great vintage picture […]

boone town

The Turchin Center for the Visual Arts up in Boone, NC is a tiny gem of a space on the campus of Appalachian University. Boone is a lovely 2 hour drive up into the mountains from High Point…

why don’t you paint?

Our psych counselor in India told me recently that Scott had struggled with feelings of guilt because he thought he and his terminal disease and his decision to go to Goa for his end days was keeping me from making art. I’m not surprised by that. The guilt had to be released somehow and so […]

rizzie & scooter

Dan Rizzie is our reigning king of posting comments to this blog. The constant communication with us while we were on the trip of a lifetime was a tremendous boost to both of us. He and Scott went to the AIS School in New Delhi where they forged a fast and fierce friendship in 1969. […]