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Francis Erich McElroy

Published posts, philosophical humor, deep thoughts.

  • Cat Door 3 (Interpreting Visual Art – Photography)

    Has anybody seen my cat? She may have run away under the cover of night with her ability to turn walls into doorways. She sees in black and white only, moves with grace inside gray areas and avoids round, bright, and colorful objects. She doesn’t really see colors which makes her avoid the outdoors, preferring…

  • Fear, Failure, and Success (Interpreting Visual Art – Animation)

    How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? In the land of make-believe it’s the little dog who comes up with bright ideas that the big dog rejects, at first, then the big dog comes around to grapple with big ideas the little dog doesn’t see as courage but instead…

  • Around the Peninsula (Interpreting Visual Art – Photography)

    My brother and I, if everything seemed big again where we grew up, beach balls kept us together and one of us had never left.    For me, the strongest memories from my childhood are from photographs I saw as a young adult and envisioned as I got older.   Natural scenery doesn’t change from year to…

  • Scribbling for Livelihood (Interpreting Visual Art – Architecture)

    Do you enjoy your job? Yes. There is a profound difference between modern architecture that is built in months or years and ancient architecture that is built throughout decades or centuries. The amount of time it takes to build a structure sometimes reflects how long the structure will last.  Ancient architecture showed the wealth of…

  • Cat Door 2 (Interpreting Visual Art – Photography)

    My cat ventured outside today for the first time. The facade of the building is more round than inside our sterile, gray apartment. She stuck out like a midwestern cookie-cutter cowboy stooped on the side of a white stucco saloon. My wise cat, with her incredible skill to walk through walls, didn’t make it very…