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Summer, 2007


  Once upon a time,..... (enjoy; brain open daily 9 to 5)

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Anyway, this is more "talky" than i usually am.

(so as such aren't really *all that representative*
of the works themselves - other than for style. But,
of course inserting *so* much text into the picture
plane, means less room for image. And of course,
with WEB pages, i can use quite a large space, but
then that means having the user to scroll up/down
left/right and then back to where they were.... anyway, on with the ART TALK)...

What sort of prompted it was a lot of introspection
during this summer with a lot of problems (my dad's
health not being the least of them) and such. One
of the nice things was that i got (first time) to
visit Houston, so got to hang out at the Contemporary
for most of an afternoon and then a bit on the 1st
floor of the MFAH (Mus of Fine Art, Houston) - nice
to see some old friends up close and personal, anyway....

  -[Sideways notebook image]- (which bird cage?)

One of miro's fast-doodle nudes, her eye looks
down and to the back towards the coo-coo clock. 
Within, the bird peers out thru the half parted
doors. Text: 'With Joan Miro's work, I found
that not only/on could my little creatures
have conversations between them and even
the viewer - but their sotires & existences
could have a hidden elment of suprise -or-
even un-resolved mystery. I discovered
this first in Miro's 'Harelquins' Carrnivall'
-- but even more so when i studied de'Chirico,
Klee, etc.'
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A line starts out and wavers here
and there, finally ending up on an almost
insect-like little creature, but upon
closer look it's Magrettt's 'Man with
apple for a face, wearing a tie'. The
little creature (don't worry he/she/ne
is fine - usually works on handling the
crane when we do high stunts, name's
Milos i think. Milos sez, 'But, only 
on a Thursdae'. Text: 'I think each 
of us in our own way discover the 
infinite diversity and possibilities 
of the 

   fractal world 
   in even   in
   the   the 
   simlest  common
   thing    place
           -eg,
          mud 
          puddles'
(to the left of this, at the bottom,
are the various:

COLOUR (written backwards)
OIL PATTERNS of
REFELECTED (larger font, written backwards)
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dThese are all rather odd for me, since essentially
the explain themselves - or at least some of what
i was thinking when i did them. Usually, the elements
form a sort of dictionary (where *is* Jacques Derrida
when you need him???) that are used again and again in
the various versions that i've drawn. After, all, i'm
just tap-ing into a fraction of the infinite number of such
Jorge Luis Borges'-like universes of such constructs
-- even if it *isn't* Thursday!

(as always, feel free to google things i say but you
 don't know - i hadn't even heard of Derrida until
 i started graduate school; and of course, just 
 barely before that:  Kitaj (the artist), Alfred Jarry
 (poss the worlds first "living the life" absurdist,
 unless it was of course his mom!), etc. -- share and enjoy!
)


Yes, those *are* a certain double-arch 
- i've always wanted to visit Seatle *and* St. Louis!
Anyway, A rather odd chicken has a sign around its 
neck: 'The Promised'. Next to it, on the lower right,
A road way leads in from the lower left to the upper 
right, there are two 'road signs'. One sez, 
'infinity'e' (with the infinity sign rather 
than the word 'e is of course a ref to both
pataphysics and beskonist'e - and thus to
infinititists, in general. An odd (bird 
i think?) is suspended in mid-flight or
impaled on an XY-cartesian diagram
of an hyper-bola.
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The other road sign is actually a line that
conenects to a coffin, on which is written:

    Body

     C
      O 
   L'  U
    G   N
     O   T
      S
       I

I often stay up late - (insomnia does that to you ;)
and catch the old, old shows like the original 
"The Body Snatcher", "Frankenstein", etc. - they had
it, Mel Brooks recog'd it, but for the most part they
*still* (except for a v. obscure, Spanish-language
version), *haven't* gotten even close to Mary Shelly's
writing - (i'm tired, so excuse the fake crankiness)

    JUST READ THE BOOK:    "Frankenstein"

When ever i use perspective, you know i'm doing it my
own way - we cartoonists are like that - (otherwise we'd
be doing "real" art ;)

The "mysterious, picasso-esque chicken" owes its existnece
to the same form as my square-sided man with moustance and
of course, a good friend of mine who *decided* to let me
at least use his initials:  thanks, JD.

Our eyes are constantly 
programming our brain:

  -- Look at that: It's an edge
  -- Look at how the shadow
     *almost* hides the object
  -- Hey! the object is a shoe box.

Of course - convincing our hands
to hold a pen and to make *exactly*
the line our mind 'sees' - just 
5,000 mistakes away - as Betty
Edwards sez.



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Oddly, enough since this isn't like "the million"
(Welding Courtyard), we can see that the way the
paper is oriented, changes the way we work - a
little trick i picked up (via Don Taylor & Dave Newman)
from studying Helen Franken Thaler's paintings. 
That is, she would "abstractitise" and was often
accused of being too geometric - I'm thinking of
her "the magi" painting mainly.

Thus, as the text, (lack of planning, or too verbose)
caused me to rotate the paper. thus, re-acting to
the image i'd drawn way, caused (??) me to draw
the odd little gliph - which *def* bears repeating.




And now, our feature presentation....


(see text link, below image! A tour for the less sighted! (well, i hope)


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