This week’s art is a pastel study for a possible large-scale painting later.

It’s my interpretation of a photo I took a little more than a week ago in Cinncinnati’s Union Terminal, the historical Art Deco Mecca, formerly a train station and now containing several museums, an OmniMax theater and an underused Amtrak station. This building was the inspiration for The Hall of Justice on the Super Friends cartoon, and will likely inspire several more pieces of Monday Morning Art over the next few weeks.

This was me looking up at the ceiling in the lobby. It’s almost abstract because so many random angles  in this place are just dripping with artistic sensibilities. I’m still processing the awesomeness of this place, and you will be seeing actual photos and more in the next couple of weeks.

This view, with the sun peeking in through a cutaway window around noon, echoes the sun and solar system with its concentric circles struck me as something I’d want to try to capture in art. It’s nice to have working fingers again.

If you want to see this image larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 2 PM on The AIR, we bring you a classic episode of Psychedelic Shack, and then at 3 PM an also classic edition of Herman Linte’s weekly showcase of the Progressive Rock of the past half-century, Prognosis.  You can listen to The AIR at the website, or on the embedded radio player elsewhere on this page.

Psychedelic Shack can be heard every Monday at 2 PM, with replays Tuesday at 9 AM, Wednesday at 10 PM, Friday at 1 PM,  and Saturday at 9 AM. You can hear Prognosis on The AIR Monday at 3 PM, with replays Tuesday at 7 AM, Wednesday at 8 PM, Thursday at Noon, and Saturday at 10 AM.

At 8 PM you can hear a classic episode of The Comedy Vault devoted to the raunchy music of Rusty Warren.

Tonight at 9 PM for the Monday Marathon we bring you ten hours of episodes of Mel Larch’s Disco Showcase, MIRRORBALL.