the farmers make art

i so wanted the green one on the top…But i’m flying solo to Vermont. Perhaps it will still be there when i can come home & be dazzled by it, again. iPhone pics taken @ Whole Foods.

…i just wanted to share

  Totally blowing my own horn, or rather, my own Shofar. Tomorrow night Rosh Hashanah begins. The Jewish New Year. This interview is about my family, photography & my art. I’m really…flattered to find myself here. The painting of Moses above, is the one of which i speak of in the magazine. Sculpture with watercolor,…

a museum in his pocket…

The title of this post was a story told to me by my father. Louis Rosenthal was walking around downtown Baltimore with his young son. A man stopped to greet Louis & said to Louis’s son, “Your father walks around with a museum in his pocket” I love that my own son has a drive…

the graphite feather…

…may be too heavy to take flight. However, in one way it can…art can make the imagination take flight, if your brave enough.

orange it is…

Nature makes the most beautiful things & then some talented people make it art

one of my favorite commissions

if you look super-duper close at the name beneath the word, “Siddur” you will find, absaab. Which is me. This is the second Jewish prayer book/Siddur that i have been commissioned to design/paint the covers for. I was shooting the redesigned school, the kids seeing the new changes to their school & i came across…

street art

this parking meter was my favorite. they are used to collect money for the needy. i think it is a brilliant idea, don’t you?  Mobile, Alabama

the first celebration of Mardi Gras was in Alabama?!?

After living in Alabama for 20 years, i still can’t associate Alabama & Mardi Gras together. I mean, Mardi Gras is New Orleans, right? Wrong!The first celebration of Mardi Gras in the United States was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama, the year was 1703….fifteen years before the birth of New Orleans!! Mobile was the first capital…