Your Daily Diversion
New posts often (not quite daily) ranging from project updates to travel recommendations to book reviews (in which we try but often fail to stay on topic). Posts appear here in reverse chronological order and typically fall into one of the following categories: Explanations (about AOD’s work), Observations (art and architectural criticism), Speculations (ideas and proposals for improving the built environment), Destinations (places worth visiting), Recommendations (books, articles, films, etc.) and Commendations (featured people, projects and products,).
An Ode to Albers: Garbage Collage Homage to the Circle
I am a big fan of Josef Albers and his Homage to the Square series, so I decided to pay tribute to Albers’ immense body of work and his commitment to continuously exploring a singular motif by commencing a new series of works of my own in mid-2023 which I have titled Garbage Collage Homage to the Circle.
Where Once There Stood a Tree
Where once there stood a tree
now stands a great technocracy
where no one wins, not blue or red or green.