Sam has been traveling and was here last week. He lives in Boulder,CO. He likes the climate and the mountains and he likes his job. He's working on web design as best I can tell. He was a bit heartbroken his long term relationship had given out. He's a very loving man, he helped me even when he was tiny he is very strong. Our family is strong and a bit off center. Anyway it was a treat to have Sam here really a gift. It's November that both my younger boys are born, really snowy cold Novembers in 1983 and 1985. We had a party for Max and Sam a couple weeks ago , I didn't make quite enough tacos and Max who came last only got one! Lots of desserts and Surly Beer from Peter and Joy. The usual loudness reined. All those of Norwegian ancestry even a slight amount have already been drunk for centuries of genes altered by alcohol. My father brought me a bottle of Akavit an anise liquor very popular in Norway and Denmark it was so potent you could clean paint brushes with it (the solvent for acrylic painted is denatured alcohol).
Anyway Sam posed for Pam and I the results here in, the likeness is slight in mine, working further from the model (even a slight amount) did throw me off and Sam's bone structure is very beautiful even badly distorted, his nose is less long but not less perfect than my painted version. Sam was sad and perplexed but he was strong too leaving in a cold snow storm at France and 50th Street. It is curious to have adult children very odd perspective on life. My boys have always known me as an artist. That their father sold paintings and taught people about art this was known and that I was not always well. Like my mom I was at times an insane parent. But I went into the shop and came out sane. I loved my boys it was a grand adventure on the cheap. I never had thought of having children ever in my life before I was a father. Indeed it seemed bad on the overhead side of being an impoverished artist/teacher. But my fecundity