garlic and Apple   acrylic on canvas

untitled / From pieces of summer

                                                         untittled   24" x 48" acrylic on masonite  


                                                          puddles fill from a single rain. 
                                                         Toy boats sail  along the waters edge.
                                                         To long the steam, to frail the boat. 
                                                          Paper mache and tape after all
                                                           were never meant for such a voyage.
                                                                                                 
                                                                                              Rocco

View From Marias window

I painted this for my friend,who brought me to this lovely place on Pennsylvania, all I remember of it was that there were  lakes and ponds scattered around...and a wonderfull Fall light, That made everything sad and melacholy the whole day..

view from Marias window/ 16x20  acrylic on canvas      

                                                   what turns like Autums light?

                                                   Bending a leaf , holding a sunset for one moment more.

                                                   Islands  erupt  in gold and green,

                                                   burnt orange leaves and tangerine... 

                                                                                                           Rocco

The strange story of "k"

obscure painting by ROCCO SCIBETTA comes back from the internet to haunt him

                                     THE STRANGE PAINTING OF " k"

              This painting that I did many years ago is of a Haitian  woman that I used as a model a few times for  a series of paintings called messages in bottles. They were a series of surreal land and seascapes that all had a bottle with a message painted in them somewhere.The woman who I called "K" because that's what it sounded like she was saying, was so taken by the painting that I offered it  to her as a thank you, before she left to go back to Haiti .  She was so happy that she put a spell on it, some kind of ritualistic prayer she chanted. and said that "Because  you have given the painting away in good faith < It will always be with you."

    

 On the day she was supposed to leave , I was straightening up my  work-space and I  found the painting, I  was sure she took it with her. I put it away and forgot about it. then I entered a show and needed an Odd ball piece to display and dug up the bottle painting. I put it  up with some others that fit the theme  and people starred at it but no one  would go near it. .Finally a man came up to me and went on a great deal about it how it reminded him of someone and he wanted to make a gift of it but  he lived in Ireland .  If I could wrap it and  send it to an address he supplied he  would pay me extra for my trouble. because I had a paypal account I told him I needed a deposit and he could pay the rest in full to the account and I would send it out.  He agreed he paid me the deposit. and I never heard from him again. the number he gave was defunct . I waited to hear from him but he never came back or called me . I still have the painting.

      After a year or two I gave up on ever hearing from  Tom again, that s what he said his name was Tom. I  hung it in a small cafe that had just opened in Point Pleasant NJ.

a man kept starring at the paining of " K" and kept saying to me,  " I really want to have this painting but I'm not sure, I am just not sure.". I didn't have any  business cards with me so I told him to tell the proprietor of the cafe to contact me when he  made up his mind. The woman who booked the show called me a few days later and told me he wanted the painting but wants to negotiate on the price . the show was ending in 2 days so I planned to meet him at the cafe and we would settle a price. at his point I was ready to just be rid of the thing a t any reasonable offer. When I went  to the cafe at the designated time no one was there only the owner. As I was taking down the piece I inquired about the man.  She said " OH, They brought him back to the hospital. It seems he escaped from a mental institution, he was allowed to visit his family for a Birthday  he went out for a coffee and he never went back home . he took off ,they finally apprehended him here,  after 2 months on a tip off.".I still have the painting.

        Later It became part of a movie for a scene from Letters of a runaway slave. An independent film.It aquired notoriety and a great deal of attention , but I still have it.  The point of all of this  tired and prolix story is that today I goggled something that had  absolutely nothing to do with this painting or the strange  Haitian woman in it and there it is  right in front of me on my screen..  I have no idea why or even how it got on network  images.And as for the Message in the bottle...What do you think it is ?