About Me

This is the Henry Loretta Martin website. All books, photographs, drawings and paintings can be found here. Three books have been uploaded on various platforms. Pointy Party Hat (short stories, all true), Vincent van Gogh's Pants (never been told stories about artists and philosophers... as deep-thinking idiots) and The Baker's Dozen (a children's book of true, cautionary tales that adults could learn from).  

A fourth book, So What, should be uploaded soon. This book has to do with the cheery topics of aging and death. The hope is that the reader will ponder and end up slightly amused, even though both aging and death can be unpleasant and terrifying.  The book draws on Heidegger's being-towards-death, authenticity, and a philosophy of hope... forward-thinking in the present. And it's about wrinkles, hemorrhoids, urns, bladders, limping, aging spots, thinning hair, finite Fridays, the latest technology in walkers, rolling walkers, wheelchairs, streamline adult diapers, Swiss Suicide Pods, Swiss watches that stop, a man in denial, the final mile walked by a woman, final words, last locations, last-ditch efforts, checking-into and checking-out of The Last Resort, etc.

On this website, you will find nothing to do with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, BlinkFest, PowerCat, ChumChat, TextMe, TextHer, TextThis, TextThat, PowerVid, ShortShorts, LongShorts, CutOffs, PreModonna, BellaDonna, PostMadonna, POW! 

Nor will you find anything to do with Picasso Cut Papers.  That was at the Hammer, Los Angeles.

"Devoted to a little-known yet foundational aspect of Pablo Picasso’s artistic practice, Picasso Cut Papers spans the artist's full career."  

And obviously, at this point, you've missed this gem of an exhibit.

Contact and correspondence can be made through this site.  In-person contact can be made M-F, 6-11pm on rue Marcadet, 75018... during certain parts of the year.  Other parts of the year I will be walking around the side streets of the Rose Garden or down the narrow streets of Highgate.