Exactly fifty years separate my two photos here of friend George Caesar.
In the first we were heading out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, on a small ocean liner to spend the summer of 1966, along with his brother Bill, yachting in the Baltic and North Seas, and writing and drawing about the adventure for the now defunct Toronto Telegram.
In the second photo, with fifty years having elapsed, we have remained great friends and he is a long-retired Art Teacher, husband, and father of two sons, who themselves are already middle-aged, and I, always a full-time artist, always on the search for arresting images, have at last photographed his impressive face in preparation for some drawings and a sculptural portrait.
Two entire personal histories are summarily here contained along with an incidental, coincidental meditation on Life / Art as Process.
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