Watched Factory Girl last night...No actress could ever compare to the on screen vulnerability of watching the real Edie........
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Monday, January 31, 2011
Basement paintings (Galiano island)
These are two of the paintings that I did while stranded on that itty bitty, island. It was a pleasure to be there, although I'm sure it would have been more fun in the summer...when it would be peopled.
A portrait of my father coming on vacation with me...
An attempt at bringing to life that essay on something horror forest and the sub-conscious...from the university days...I don't know if they're finished yet, but they could definitely be better
photographed.
I certainly notice the wide gap between the way I paint and the way those I admire paint......Time to loosen up and keep mixing paints
photographed.
I certainly notice the wide gap between the way I paint and the way those I admire paint......Time to loosen up and keep mixing paints
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Annie Lapin
I love her smearing, matched by the beautiful composition and palette...mixed with a light, spontaneous painterly application. The moments of realism like the perfect woman in the back of perverts being gawked at be the streaked bulging flesh of the nude. Then only re-conceives and perhaps it is the realistic woman who is out of place and atrocious, giving the shifty eye, touching herself while wading fully clothed in the back ground, her hand illustratively outlined in black, popping from the folds of her white cotton crotch.
Couple Of Narcissists
2008. Oil on synthetic canvas. 51 x 30 inces
Cast Halving
2008. Oil on panel. 96 x 69 inches
Older Boys
2007. Casein and oil on panel. 60 x 54 inches
She's definitely a painter that you could say uses paint
like a magician
...plus I love that way she talks about her work
like a magician
...plus I love that way she talks about her work
"This component of the painting, the face painted without depth, alludes to Byzantine iconographic space, which was reserved for holy imagery. I call the work Land Gods, because I think that this painting also reflects the multiple ways that people look at the land, as something alternately animated, sublime, or simply as real estate. All these ideas about the landscape haunt our minds any time we conceive of or look at the terrain around us. They are like ghosts... or gods."
Night Performance
2008. Oil and casein on canvas. 47 x 33 inches
Merge Down 2008. Oil on canvas. 72 x 96 inches |
The Front Runners
2008. Casein, oil, acrylic and wax crayon on panel
Perverts
2009. Oil on canvas. 36 x 48 inches
More images below at these links
On the Bus to Horseshoe Bay
Today the express bus was cram packed with three foot tall brownies (pre-girlguides) and a gold miner from the Yukon, who was definitely as bush-whacked as
........Can you imagine........
The little brownies from Nanaimo had just awoken from their sleep-over in the aquarium
with the beluga whales!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Henk
This was the problem/how it started
Unfortunately I yelled over to the beautiful trimaran, "Est-ce que vous parlez francais?"
Apparently I think everyone is french...
No, the top one is the French flag and the bottom is the Dutch...... which was the flag actually hanging from the stern of his boat...General knowledge lacking
It's always mistakes that make us meet the most interesting people, coupled with the courage to say, (after embarassing oneself) "why don't you come over for dinner." So, the grizzled 61 year old Dutch sailor , came over to 290 southwind drive for meat pie, roast and mashed potatoes. Which her claimed was better than Campbells chunky soup!
It was a raucous Mckenzie affair, even the new baby was there.
Our seaman turned out to be;
Henk De Velde, the dutch sailor and self promotional artist, who has sailed around the world 6 times, each time a different route. Ending up in Galiano last Wednesday by way of the Bering sea....
He has made his life, through writing, minimal sponsorship and weather reporting while on his travels...
I wouldn't fathom telling his stories ...but there seems to be a large enough quantity on the link below.
and of course
moral:never stop talking to strangers...
Now sleep...bunk beds are unconducive .....makes this close to illiterate
5am Bottom bunk
Too good to be true....U.S.A here I come!
Amtrak Discovery pass, one month of unlimited travel...
the plan San Francisco, L.A. and Santa Fe (with good intentions for Las Vegas,
because you would be a fool not to( or to? ) )
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Organs Donors
Thinking about the United States....the Arizona shooting, Rep. Christina Giffords and the little girl who's parents donated her organs after she was shot in the spree...She saved a little girl and gave sight to two other children. Is it possibly the most beautiful of poetry....To enable another through your loss...
I just became an organ donor, it is a bizarre moment; when you must decide what organs to give...Skin, liver, heart...are there preferences?...I know I cringed a little at skin.....the stripping of my surface.... the body....the organ membrane that I will, once have felt through.....whereas the other internals somehow are just romantic ideas and globs of purple that we pull out from the turkey(good soup base)....
This mask is about the kidney sisters.......
Gladys and Jamie Scott.......funny I don't know who is whom but I always imagine the one on the right is the donator......she offered the donation as a condition of her parole....it must be complied to within the year
Jamie Scott, 36, is on dialysis, which officials say costs the state about $200,000 a year
The Scotts were convicted in 1994 of an armed robbery in central Mississippi the year before. The robbery didn't net much; amounts cited have ranged from $11 to $200.
Lumumba(the lawyer) said the women hope to get government-funded health insurance in Florida and begin the needed steps to make the transplant happen. He said a few doctors have expressed interest in performing the kidney transplant, but there are no firm plans yet. And the sisters need to undergo testing to make sure they are compatible.
It is a tragic story...sixteen years for under two hundred dollars...if she's 34....that means they were 18....it makes you think about the penitentiary and the health care system....I haven't developed the ideas yet ...it is always interesting, to try and pin down details through the simplisticity of articles and try to define truth, fiction and over-blown-ness...also ....the brutality often inflicted on a story by its headlines..
but the imagery.....for now....... is quite beautiful!
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