Daniel Boorstin, a historian and twelfth librarian of the United States Congress, published in 1962 – The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. I read the book in the late 1980s while in college. Boorstin observed the evolution of politics and news reporting where politicians create events for media to cover and thus amplify their narrative. I have reflected on this book for most of my career, sometimes cynically looking at some events that really weren’t newsworthy and other

The Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild (RBWG) reached out to me and asked me to participate in their Art in the AM program. As they describe it, “it is a monthly performance featuring visual artists, RBWG writers, and songs by musician Stuart Vining.” For their March meeting, I selected a diptych of abstract images I made in 2015 of a crumpled-up piece of metal I rescued from the demolition of the 1965 Cullen Bridge (Indian River Inlet) located along the coast of Delaware. These