Updated Suite of Marine Paintings

Posted by Antonio Dias on 03/05/2013

Dune Sunrise

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A Lateener for the Channel Islands

Posted by Antonio Dias on 01/11/2013

This is just a teaser for a project that’s beginning to come together, a 24′ lateener that will be sailed in the waters around Southern California’s Channel Islands.

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Two new developments…

Posted by Antonio Dias on 12/11/2012

Jeppe Graugaard has posted the third and final installment of a series of conversations we’ve had over the past year.

Remembering, Beyond Isolation

And here is a view of the next iteration of the Schooner Boat design over at Boats for difficult times.

32'-Schooner-Boat-Sail-Plan

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A New Site, Antonio Dias Fiction

Posted by Antonio Dias on 05/26/2012

Well, I am adding another site, but the intent is to de-clutter access to my writings. Before now if someone wanted to find my novels, short stories, or memoir; they had to look for them on one of seven individual sites!

I won’t be taking those down just yet, but I do hope that people interested in my writing will follow me on this site.

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Antonio Dias Design, new look

Posted by Antonio Dias on 05/25/2012

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E-book of Fragments of my Father, a memoir

Posted by Antonio Dias on 05/19/2012

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The Island

Posted by Antonio Dias on 05/16/2012

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Antonio Dias Fiction

Direction
I have been working with an editor. A director to be truthful. Someone involved with film, but that’s not to imply this has anything to do with that! A director […]
The Studio Visit, Shoal Hope
An excerpt from my novel, Shoal Hope: Albert slapped down a quarter on the counter, swiveling away on his stool. A half-chewed toothpick clenched in his jaw, “Thanks!” The counter-man […]
Introducing November, a mystery…
This new novel is beginning to come together. It is a departure from Shoal Hope and my previous work. It is an exploration of the intertwining mysteries of writing, action, […]
Inspiration and Accumulation
JDG: I wonder if you could say more about how you see this process of how smaller stories grow into a larger, coherent narrative? SB: I’m not sure it can […]
Writing Embodiment, When the point is not escape…
We all know what fiction is. What it’s for. Fiction is a story with an arc. We start here and bad shit happens and we end up there. Either the […]

Light on Canvas

Signs and Extended Metaphor
Signs pull apart the totality of perception. Tearing holes in the field of relationships. Stopping the eye and the mind. Forcing a precipitation of some part held in opposition. This post is illustrated by a series of images of my work from various “genres” and across the span of three decades. This essay begins to [...]
The Studio Visit, Shoal Hope
An excerpt from my novel, Shoal Hope: Albert slapped down a quarter on the counter, swiveling away on his stool. A half-chewed toothpick clenched in his jaw, “Thanks!” The counter-man replied with clipped, professional courtesy, “Thank you.” Albert stepped onto the street. A low sun shimmered between a filigree of branches. Leaves at their peak [...]
Another push, Marine Paintings
Further work on this suite of Marine Paintings. A few new ones, and some drawings preliminary to a few I’d like to get going soon. Another change is presenting them here in “frames.” I do think these help. Let me know what you think? Below is the same set in a simpler gallery. Just click [...]
Self Portrait
Self portraits bring their own baggage. This one has waited for me to re-address it for some time. This latest push has brought it to this state. Filed under: News, Painting, Portraits Tagged: oil painting, Painting Process, Self-portrait
“Backing Around to the North,” a new Marine Painting
This painting was inspired by the sloop Regina M. now at Mystic Seaport. Regina M. is a Carry-Away Boat, an early form of Sardine Carrier closely related to the Lubec Boats. Here we are caught outside in a No’th-east’ah as the wind backs around to the North. Filed under: Marine Paintings, News, Painting Tagged: Carry-Away [...]
A Suite of Marine Paintings, updated
This is a series of marine paintings I’ve been working on over the last year. Some have been shown here before in earlier stages, a few are new. One last image is of a sketch that may turn into a painting. They are shown in a roughly chronological order although most have “been touched” in [...]

Horizons of Significance

Process
process early 14c., “fact of being carried on” (e.g. in process), from O.Fr. proces “journey” (13c.), from L. processus “process, advance, progress,” from pp. stem of procedere “go forward” (see proceed). Meaning “course or method of action” is from mid-14c.; sense of “continuous… As with so many words, we rarely look at where they came […] […]
On Responsibility
Another post I’d like to recommend. On Responsibility from cricket7642. My friend shared a memory with me, from years ago, of a doctor she once met. Something he had said at the time has stayed with her all these years: people, he reflected, talk about their rights and responsibilities, but really “we have only responsibilities.” Wonderful […]
The Order of Thought
I’m writing to ask you to take a look at my friend Peter Kajtar’s Kickstarter campaign. Peter is writing a book building on the work of David Bohm and J Krishnamurti, The Order of Thought. I’ve cited his work many times here. I consider what he is doing to be one of the most significant […]
Between Posts…
Here is a post I strongly urge you to read. The Stades Last Stand. One of the forces affecting what gets written here is my sense of the need for something to be written. If something is not being said, then let me take a stab at it. But when others write eloquently on a […]
A Web of Obligations
We tie ourselves within a web of obligations, forgetting that while these so-called acts of responsibility are meant to help us fulfill our lives, they actually keep us from it. What struck me was the way we handle the mid-term. It’s not just in the short-term that we do everything twice. In the mid-term, in […]

Stone Soup, Countering the Spectacle

Reservoirs of Craft
Reservoirs of Craft. The phrase came to me one night upon closing my eyes to fall asleep. I took the trouble, made the effort as a sign of respect for whatever muse it is that comes too me at such moments – along with a realization from sad experience, that if I didn’t write it [...]
Whither Charisma? A Variation on Stone Soup
Andrew Taggart’s reflections on the founding story of Stone Soup attribute the success of the original beggar to personal charisma. Using the arts of magic, the beggar is able to mesmerise the villagers and charm them into parting with small individual gifts of food which, when added together to the communal soup pot, transform scarcity [...]
From Bonds to Connection, from Contract to Community
We are tied to each other, but beneath these bonds lies a deep connection that cannot be experienced without letting go of both the suspicion and the sense of duty we feel towards our bonds. Bonds are ties. Ties are compulsive. They are the fabric of domination, whether between us or within us. We live [...]
The Gulf Between Technology and Craft
Central to the gulf between technology and craft is the frictionless quality of interacting with computers. While “dumb” tools wait mutely to be brought to life, computers hum expectantly and rush out to meet us part way. There is tremendous gratification to be had in this seeming collaboration, but it is chimerical. It is a [...]
Stone Soup, Mutual dependency, and a New Economic Order
In “The Story of Stone Soup,” as Antonio Dias tells it, a wandering beggar comes upon a village. Hungry and tired, he goes to each door and is met with the same answer again and again. There is, he is told, not enough to go around, and the door, half-opened, is soon closed upon him. Nearing despair, [...]

Antonio Dias Design

Carpe Navicula!
Just a quick note of explanation for this site’s new tagline. Carpe Navicula! is a reworking of the Latin stand-by, Carpe Canem! Instead of “Beware of Dog!” It states, “Beware of Boat!’ A friend just came up with it and it captures exactly what I have to offer people looking for a boat to build [...]
Introducing the Factory One Design
The Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory Is now building three Factory One Designs in its evening boatbuilding program in North Philadelphia. This boat was designed specifically for the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory’s boatbuilding program as a boat to be built by their young people during the school year and then sailed in their summer sailing program [...]
A Lateener for the Channel Islands
This is just a teaser for a project that’s beginning to come together, a 24′ lateener that will be sailed in the waters around Southern California’s Channel Islands. This little yawl will be trailer-sailed. This leads to her construction in wood/composite with laminated “sawn frames.” Also, to keep trailer weight low and give a large [...]
Update on the Schooner Boat
The Schooner Boat project has been moving forward, slowly. Allowing a design to form in its own time instead of pushing ahead in some frenzy of obsessive work makes for a better design, at least that’s how I see it. It also lets those little whispers – either warnings or leads – have enough time [...]
Schooner Boat Update
Schooner Boat update at Boats for difficult times. Filed under: Boats I'd Like to Design, Design, Process, Sail Tagged: Boats for difficult times, carvel construction, schooner, Schooner Boat, Vessels of Transformation, Writing on Design
New Post on “Boats for difficult times”
Another new post on Boats for difficult times: The Schooner Boat, part II Filed under: Boats I'd Like to Design, Historical Boats, Process, Sail Tagged: Schooner Boat, Vessels of Transformation, Writing on Design
Post on “Boats for difficult times”
A new post on Boats for difficult times: The Schooner Boat, part I Filed under: Boats I'd Like to Design, Historical Boats, Process, Sail Tagged: Schooner Boat, Vessels of Transformation, Writing on Design

Boats for difficult times

Important Link
Here is a post I strongly urge you to read. The Stades Last Stand. One of the forces affecting what gets written here is my sense of the need for […]
Disentangling Craft from Technology
I’m drawn to articulate a distinction between craft and technology. It is an enormous topic. That is part of the trouble with it, where to begin, or, if we’re past […]
The Surface of Mortality
Looking out across an unfrozen yet still icy-cold salt pond, a boat goes by. I’m reminded of times on the water in winter. Such times make it supremely clear what […]
A Guest Post by Thad Danielson
Difficult times. I don’t have numbers, just impressions. World wide most people struggle to eat, shelter or pay their bills. The few with money and property live to prove their […]
Schooner Boat, next iteration
After a long pause the Schooner Boat design has made it to another iteration. The hull is now 32′ and the lines have been revisited and calculations taken arriving at […]
Harold Burnham
I never thought I’d see the day when I’d be linking here to a story in The Washington Post but… Great news! Harold Burnham has won a fellowship! It’s great […]
Beyond the Horizon. Boats, just vessels of escape?
Sterling Hayden. He was a good actor. Who can forget his mad air force general muttering about precious bodily fluids while orchestrating the end of the world in Dr. Strangelove? […]
Schooner Boat Update
Thought it was time to update the progress on the Schooner Boat. As you can see, length has been increased to 32′. Almost any boat can be improved by easing […]
Integrity, and the Shape of Competence
Providence River Sloop, from Howard Chapelle’s Small Sailing Craft John Cline’s recent comment in response to this post, has opened up a powerful pathway into a subject that’s been brewing […]
Floating, Flowing
“Yes, it’s possible, indeed urgently necessary, to act from listening and stillness, which is an intelligence beyond knowledge. Such action is the basis of freedom and right action. Freedom can […]

Fine Lines

Notes on the Relationship of Technology to Craft
We are encouraged by the cheerleaders of consumer culture to see technology as a seamless whole that embraces everything we do and that is on a hockey-stick rate of accelerated change that will eventually meet every need and fulfill every desire. In this conception of our history and development from bowed Ape-Man to buff Super-Man [...]
No More Natural World
There is no longer a separate natural world. This is true conceptually and physically. Conceptually there is no longer any excuse for making such a distinction. Physically, human intervention and human-forced destruction, have spread throughout the non-human world and become so pervasive as to have nullified any distinction. We are all natural. There is no [ […]
A Technique can be written down and replicated from directions, a Craft cannot.
A Technique can be written down and replicated from directions, a Craft cannot. Unless we can learn to appreciate the difference we continue to do damage to ourselves and destroying our world. Technique is limited and destructive because it sets something in motion according to a plan and puts power behind it to force some [...]
Craft is Technique with Context
Craft, like Art, has been in exile for a long time, put in a ghetto where it’s been held at the mercy of wealth. In a way I suppose we should be grateful, they might have disappeared entirely without patronage; but on the other hand, if it hadn’t been for the creation of poverty and [...]
From Windmills to Wind Turbines, and Back to Windmills
Let’s get one thing clear. Wind Turbines are not an alternative, appropriate technology. They are the last gasp of all the arrogance behind business-as-usual. They take the violence hidden in the mine, the oil well, behind power plant walls; and set it defiantly against the sky. They present the form of whirling knife blades, or [...]

Poetry

Disappointment, with coda
We push disappointment ahead of ourselves like a bulldozer scraping earth. Whatever attracts us is held at arm’s length. Destroyed as it comes into reach. We seek to break from our disappointment. Instead, all is broken upon our desire. We push disappointment ahead of ourselves like a bulldozer scraping earth. Desire locked in disappointment. Desire […]
Cicada
Our first instinct is to name what catches our attention. Their sound rising and falling powerful in the morning sun. But the name – eager as we are to grasp them in their raw qualities – lets them slip away. It takes us away from scintillation, a surrounding sound. We are incapable of holding them […]
Intention, Sincerity & the Works of I
Coruscation
Inter Penetrated Waves
Reading at Writer’s Voice Café
Provincetown TV has been videotaping the featured writers at the Writer’s Voice Café at Napi’s in Provincetown for the last few months. I was lucky enough to have my reading taped and here it is! Writers Voice Cafe: Antonio Dias from Provincetown Community TV on Vimeo. “It may be the most honest attempt at literature […]
Featured Writer at Writer’s Voice Café
Wednesday, May 11 at 7:00 pm upstairs at Napi's I'll be reading from both Shoal Hope and Something for Nothing, including the chapter, "…Peter" that will be included in the Dark Mountain II anthology due to be published in Britain in June.
Being, Not Becoming
Cerulean
An Interview on Dateline Provincetown
Jim Brosseau, host of Dateline Provincetown recently interviewed me about my writing. Dateline Provincetown: An Interview with Antonio Dias. We talk about writing Shoal Hope and I read a short excerpt from Something for Nothing and my poem, From Wood End…

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