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J. M. Hurowitz - Untitled - 2024 - pencil on paper - 44 x 30 inches

Began this piece the later part of 2023, and completed it today. Read what you will in to it. Art should make the viewer think. All thoughts are valid.

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Another of my original works from 2021.

J. M. Hurowitz - Untitled - 2021 -pencil on paper - 30 x 22 inches

Addendum: This piece is currently hanging in the show “Apophenia” (the title of the show was taken from this piece) at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Park Hollywood. It is one of several hundred pieces that comprise an open call show for artist working in and around the Los Angeles area. The show will be up through mid-March of 2024. It’s worth a look.

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Watch: Jesse Williams is done with these excuses

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Horsing around

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“My point, to be clear, isn’t that it’s a bad idea to make plans, or save money for retirement, or remember to vote, so as to increase the chances that the future will turn out the way you’d like. Our efforts to influence the future aren’t the problem. The problem — the source of all the anxiety — is the need that we feel, from our vantage point here in the present moment, to be able to know that those efforts will prove successful. It’s fine, of course, to strongly prefer that your partner never leave you, and to treat him or her in ways that make that happy outcome more likely. But it’s a recipe for a life of unending stress to insist that you must be able to feel certain, now, that this is how your relationship is definitely going to unfold in the future. So a surprisingly effective antidote to anxiety can be to simply realise that this demand for reassurance from the future is one that will definitely never be satisfied — no matter how much you plan or fret, or how much extra time you leave to get to the airport. You *can’t* know that things will turn out all right. The struggle for certainty is an intrinsically hopeless one — which means you have permission to stop engaging in it. The future just isn’t the sort of thing you get to order around like that, as the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal understood: “So imprudent are we,” he wrote, “that we wander in the times which are not ours … We try to [give the present the support of] the future, and think of arranging matters which are not in our power, for a time which we have no certainty of reaching.””

— Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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I found this to be quite clever. Aren't words just great!

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hungry boy

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J. M. Hurowitz - Untitled - 2023 - pencil on paper - 22.5 x 30 inches

This is my most recent work, done specifically for a friend's 60th birthday. Like my other drawings, there are references to art, literature, science, history and other personal interests, as well as images with no special significance other than the fact that I felt like including them. And like my other drawings, my hope is that anyone viewing this work will take the time to make their own connections and interpretations.