Saturday, September 6, 2025

forty-one

 






Clerkmanifesto is going context free for 100 days!

While I retire from 31 years at the Roseville Library, sell nearly everything I own, fly with my darling wife to Japan for 40 days, and then move together to France to start to build a life there, I present a less explained clerkmanifesto, a clerkmanifesto of snapshots and time travel. Below you may see old posts without introduction from my 4,750 post collection. You may see random photos, brand new or years old. I may write a passage about Japan as if of course you know I'm in Japan, I may make a simple observation or joke, but whatever it is, I won't be explaining it. You'll have to take it as it comes.

For more context you are welcome to read this longer introduction.

And if this is all too confusing I welcome you to investigate our thousands of fully explained historic posts from the past 12 years, though I'll be the first to admit, hours later, you may still come away a little confused.


Here, however it works, is what clerkmanifesto has for you today:








Just a few days after leaving the Ramsey County Library in my retirement, the marks already start to fade...












But wait, there's more!



I'm still going through some of the old artwork and cleaning it up if I can with AI. These were from a series of bugheart small watercolors I painted some time in the 90's. They are about a two on the scale of one to ten, expressing how changed they are by the AI. 

So, not very.


I did a lot of paintings in this style back then. I wish I had more of them, but was glad to see these three...





































































No comments:

Post a Comment

If you were wondering, yes, you should comment. Not only does it remind me that I must write in intelligible English because someone is actually reading what I write, but it is also a pleasure for me since I am interested in anything you have to say.

I respond to pretty much every comment. It's like a free personalized blog post!

One last detail: If you are commenting on a post more than two weeks old I have to go in and approve it. It's sort of a spam protection device. Also, rarely, a comment will go to spam on its own. Give either of those a day or two and your comment will show up on the blog.