Sharp Was the Blade time lapse.

A sped up version of the making of "Sharp Was the Blade"

Behold the mighty Turkey

Joy's turkey Before and After the oven. We had a pretty good feast.



Joy's sister Jill's family. The two at the end are Joy's great nieces, Gabriella and Olivia. We had two long dining tables lined up for 12 of us. Joy made a turkey soup today with the left overs.

Loco Moko

We have a new member of the family who's five times smaller than Alex and three times more hyper than Olivia. Meet Moko, a Jack Russell terrier that April and I found on the web. She's already learned how to sit on command, though the word 'heel' is still a mystery to her. She's teething now, and it looks like Alex doesn't like being gnawed on, so we're hoping she'll learn how to heel as soon as possible.

Clay's Nose Job

Clay had a bit of a scare with a Basal cell Carcinoma on the tip of his nose. When he went to have it removed they found that it had spread to a wider area so they had to keep cutting away to get the cancer. This left him with a good sized hole in the tip of his nose.


To reconstruct skin over the hole, they took a flap of skin from his forehead to his eyebrow and bent it down and around to the tip of his nose. They kept it attached at the brow so the skin would continue to be nourished by blood vessels. Then they used the skin to replace what was missing on the ball of the nose and the nostril. They also used some cartilage from his ear, to re construct the nostril. It's pretty fascinating what they are able to do these days. Clay was a trooper through all of this, continuing to work around the house and willing to put up with people staring at him when he went outside (and a few jokes at his expense from Gene). Apparently the reconstructive surgery went well and the stitch lines are healing. Glad to have you back in one piece, Clay.



This last photo is my favorite. Check out the little fat globules on the inside of the skin. And yes, Clay agreed to have these photos posted.

The Weaner Song (for Alex)

I came up with this while goofing off at the piano with Alex. I could use some help in writing lyrics for another verse or two. Let me know if you come up with anything.

I woke up this morning and I grabbed me a booby

But the milk was all gone, so I just watched a movie

Mama done left me without any chow

Well, they say it's time that I grew up, anyhow

Lord I was born a Rambling Man

Nathan Lewis, Oct 2010 from Gorky's Granddaughter on Vimeo.

These are selections from a talk I gave at my show in Windsor. The clip shows some nice closeups of the work and me rambling on. A painter friend of mine created a site called Gorky's Granddaughter, that shows clips of what is happening in the arts in and around New Haven. This video is part of the site's debut.