Pastel, 12 x 15, Brooks AFB Post Office

The concept was to create a small memorial art work to this wonderful old Air Force Base.  One of the oldest buildings was the post office which probably dated from the 1930s.

This idea came as I talked to Adolph Trevino in our post office. He had worked there 7 years and knew the man who had worked there 40 years before him.  This was a very early pastel of mine on pastel paper.  I played with the colors.  I wanted the light of the sun to be spiritual, eternal.

I did finish the work, got Adolph to help me create a mat to frame it in that many people who were still at Brooks before it closed had a chance to sign.  I took it to the old postman who fortunately had moved nearby and I gave it to him myself.

Art is a bridge from the past into the future, sometimes harder to see when one is young.  It is abundantly clear as one gets older. 

Pastel, The Bridge At Cathedral Park

This is a small pastel on pastel paper depicting the old wooden bridge at Cathedral Park. 

It was my first detailed pastel and it was completed both from an image, and from visits to this nearby public place of the Episcopal Diocese of South Texas.

This is a spiritual place for many people and it has been for a very long time -- since the Native Americans camped nearby as they hunted buffalo crossing just north of this place.  It crosses the Torcido Springs which are the headwaters of the San Antonio River.  The view is to the east.  Up the hill is the columbarium that I have reserved.  This bridge to me represents life and learning.