Stu Jenks' Fezziwig Press

“Baltazar, A Wise Man From The East, Saguaro Rib, Arizona” © Stu Jenks 2020 [Extended Family Series]

“Baltazar, Saguaro Rib, Arizona” © Stu Jenks 2020, 76 inches tall.

Price: $395, shipping included in the price. Simply contact me via my email address at [email protected] or Facebook message me, if you would like to purchase one of my pieces. Payments can be made with Paypal, Venmo or credit card with Square. All pieces are signed with its title, and can be hung from the wall. Love y'all, Stu.

 

Balthazar is one of The Three Wise Men From The East in Jesus' nativity story. He is also a character in my holiday novel, Bathazar & Zeeba. I know. Again, like prior wall pieces named after literary characters, I'm not going to say much, just in case you end up reading the book.

But he is a righteous dude, as you can imagine. And he loves his granddaughter Zeeba very much.

 

#balthazar, #stujenks, #extendedfamilyseries

All 8 1/2" x 11" A/P archival pigment prints by Stu Jenks for $25, shipping, handling and taxes included...

Image: "Queen Esther Baptist Church, Lancaster, Virginia" (c) 2011 Stu Jenks (Just down River Road from Victoria's house. Love that luscious red carpet. And for you nocturnals out there, it was handheld. Rare for me.)

In this time of making photos on iPhones and Macbook Pros and only looking on screens, I forget I'm a old-school guy. I make a 8 1/2 x 11 work print on archival paper of EVERY image I make. EVERY one. It's the only way, for me, to accurately check for color shift, density, composition, etc. I really like my iPad screen but it's no way to make a good print.

And I have hundreds, if not thousands, of work prints artist proofs at my studio.

If you see an image of mine on The StuBlog or on my old website or on the Fezziwig Press Store or in any of my books, there's a beautiful small print in a box somewhere, perhaps with your name on it. And since I'm organized, I can find it.

Many of you can't afford my larger prints. I understand. I don't have an extra 50 or 100 lying around either. But I do have an extra $20 for stuff I really like.

So if you see an image of mine on any of my sites or in any of my books and you want it, it's yours for $25, shipping, handling and tax included. (I believe in paying taxes, sales and otherwise.)

Just email me at my facebook page or through the StuBlog or at [email protected], and tell me what print you would like or just pull the jpeg and send that to me.

I was just watching the Tarhells lose today in basketball, working on images at my computer when I thought, 'I bet people don't realize I have boxes of work prints here.'

You all do now.

Love and light,

Stu

p.s. Ignore the catagories belows. The computer went wacky. Another reason why I prefer a print in the hand as opposed to an image in The Cloud.

Graphic Pen Images From The Novel

Been working on a backlog of images that may be chapter headers for the novel I'm writing. Images from Memphis, Pacifica, San Francisco, Picacho and Barstow.

I have been on the road a lot this year, haven't I? From North Carolina, Virginia, California, and parts inbetween.

It's good to be stationary for a while, working at my desk, with cool wet night air drifting in from outside, and the smell of lavender on my hands from a living plant I purchased today.

Happy Solstice everyone.

The Sun will return.

 

Now available, on the Apple IPad: The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010) and Bozo In Love

Been a long time coming for The Transpersonal Papers (1861-2010).

Three editors, two proofreaders, two designers, four printers, and hours, days, weeks, months, years, lifetimes, (I know I'm overstating), of writing, traveling, shooting, editing, remembering, hiking, and more writing, shooting, and editing, but I'm not complaining. No, no, no.

And apologies for not having the dough right now, to print The Transpersonal Papers as a coffee-table book as I had originally planned. ($10,000, it would have cost. Maybe someday.) But you now can buy it, for $14.95, as an Ebook on the Apple IPad, and I expect it to be available within a couple days on the Nook and the Kindle as well.

I just looked at it on my new IPad. The photos, text and design look grand.

And as an extra surprise, Bozo In Love is now up on IBooks too, ($9.95), as well as the rest of my catalog: Flame Spirals, Hoop Dancing, and Dementia Blues, on IBooks, Nook and Kindle.

Just in time for Christmas.

And don't worry. All but The Transpersonal Papers can still be bought as a book book through Fezziwig Press. I have plenty. Just go to www.fezziwigpressonline.com, for the hardbounds and paperbacks, but go to ITunes, today, (and Kindle and Nook, soon) for the ebooks.

Heavy sigh from my third story apartment balcony. I look out onto the Tucson city lights in the valley below. Cold, dry air embraces me. I inhale deeply. Exhale.

A very good night in the desert.

Think I'll make a cup of coffee with egg nog and play some Angry Birds on my new IPad.

Time to celebrate.

 

"Bisbee Prayer Flags"

"Bisbee Prayer Flags, Arizona" (c) 2010, 2011 Stu Jenks

(Happy Epiphany, to all the wise men, women and children out there.)

"Buddhism in Bisbee"

"Buddhism in Bisbee" (c) 2010 Stu Jenks

[An Infrared image taken with my old Rollei, from atop Youngblood Hill in Bisbee, Arizona. Could be Arizona. Could be India. Could be just about anyplace. Could be everyplace.]

"By Your Grace / Jai Gurudev"

[Image: "Holy Ghost Window, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco" (c) 2010 Stu Jenks]

    If I die tonight in my sleep or twenty five years from now, I wish to have this played and sung at my funeral. There are other songs I want as well: "Magic", a song by Ben Folds performed by The University of Chicago's Voices In My Head; "Blackout" by Muse; and "In The Bleak Midwinter" performed by the choir at Grace St. Paul's, but "By Your Grace/Jai Gurudev" should be sung and played as well. Scotty might play it on his harmonium, or perhaps just queue up Krishna Das' recording off his new album "Heart as Wide as the World." That'll do just fine. And don't forget to sing along. You'll feel better afterwards. And Happy Easter, everyone.

"By Your Grace/Jai Gurudev"

by Krishna Das.

Closer than breath, you are the air.

Sweeter than life itself, you are here.

I am a wanderer, you are my peace.

I am a prisoner, you are release.

Jai Gurudev...

I am a pilgrim, the road so long.

I am the singer, you are the song.

Held in the open sky, so far above.

I am the lover, you are the love.

Jai Gurudev...

I follow your footsteps through the flame.

All that I ever need is in your name.

Carry your heart in mine vast as space.

All that I am today is by your grace.

By your grace.

I live by your grace.