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	Art of this Book The Punctual Actual Weekly cover Peter Loscan Art Galery I Peter Loscan Art Galery II Time as a Fractal Vortex Notebook of Darrell Gray Art of Other Books Other Galleries Spirit Tokens Gallery Spirit Tokens II Gallery Collage Mandalas Gallery Mandalas Gallery Posters Gallery Gates Gallery	Front Cover: The Punctual Actual Weekly The front cover of The Punctual Actual Weekly at left is graced with a painting by Peter Loschan, a friend, mentor and figurative abstraction artist in the 1970's. There is quite a bit of material in the book about action painting; it presents an objective correlative parallel sense modality of Physical Theatre, the setting of the book. Loschan was influenced by de Kooning, and pursued the energetic atemporal. On the cover, the image of figurative abstraction is overlaying an image of particle tracks in a cloud chamber, which has got to be the ultimate mandala of my generation. The cloud chamber showing creation and annihilation in spaces wild and tame of higher dimensions is allowed to penetrate the frame of the painting indicating how action painting reflects the zeitgeist. The background image shows the tail-lights of cars streaking down a California freeway; this relates to the worker stories about driving a hack in Berkeley. We are looking at car tail lights as vapor trails in the psychic cloud chamber of the night cab driver. The back cover shows two paintings by Peter Loschan, balanced around a sticker that says ACTUAL. Figurative Abstraction, is like sumi-e except without the iconography and the training of brush stroke techniques from writing. It is a kind of harnessed Action painting, done with the same aggressive attack but with always a control trying to capture the human figure. These images are montaged on top of an urban night scene of time lapsed motion photography of car tail lights in a landscape of signs: stop lights, signals, directions. There's an old California drivers proving arrival at the edge, the Amphictyonic theatre at 2019 Blake St. in Berkeley, shown on a map.