Artist, Luthier, Musician, Teacher, Blogger
A couple of weeks ago I had a really interesting day. It started out like so many other days. Got up, went to work at St. John’s Episcopal School where I have been teaching for 27 years, went to chapel and then taught 1st period. After 1st period I had arranged to take our 8th … More Full Circle
I’ve been going through some early work recently; pulling it from my shed and saving what is savable and throwing out what is too far gone. It’s given me some pause to think back about my early influences and practices. I’ve been blessed over the years to get a lot of good press and early … More Early Narrative
In an 8th grade teacher meeting the other day we were discussing the things that we were doing in our classrooms. Our science teacher was covering the dreaded sex section of the curriculum and she said that one of the boy’s gotcha questions was……..where do you buy condoms? Which is funny to me since you … More Boyhood rites of passages – two funny memories
Sir Winston Churchill, the great Prime Minister of England, who lead his country through WWII, when asked to cut arts funding in favor of the war effort, he simply replied, “then what are we fighting for?” Last week an artist from New Orleans wrote me the nicest comment on my recent blog called, The Gift … More Frivolous Pursuits
I have been making an effort to empty out my back sheds where I have been storing art for years; emptying them out because of all the wild animals that have taken a liking to eating my early work. I have been repairing the damaged pieces, wrapping them up for climate controlled storage or just … More It must have been a very slow news day
This letter was sort of late in being delivered to me.….some 52 years late to be precise. And maybe because of that it means so much more to me now than it probably would of when I was six. I have written in my blog before that my mother has been going through things and in … More The gift of letters
It’s hard to appreciate things as a child that as an adult you will treasure. I have often said that in the Delabano household, we had family paintings like a lot of people have family photographs around the house. My father the painter primarily painted paintings of our family, extended family, friends, as well as … More Hated being a model……………..
This Thanksgiving holiday was a week of sleeping in which I never do. My dogs usually get me up by 6:30 AM if I haven’t set an alarm. I guess with all the cold rainy weather, the dogs decided it was good to sleep in as well. Thanksgiving was a hard time for my good … More “Flaming Idiot” in the house
One of my favorite artist has always been Constantin Brancusi. One of the highlights from our family trip to Europe when I was 18 was seeing Brancusi’s recreated studio at Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris. It was recreated to appear as it did at Brancusi’s death, although the Musée National d’Art Moderne’s recreation … More The “Beginning of the World”….was once in the hands of my parents
This past weekend, I was on the road. The band I’m in, Ricky Gene Wright and Duck Creek Station performed in Tao’s New Mexico at the Black Mesa Tasting Room and Gallery. We have been gigging around the Dallas area for some time now but this was our first road trip together. I guess we’ll … More On the road
Martin Delabano: Musings of an Artist 