New Project
Not really new...
Been thinking about it for a month, painting it in my head.
sway...
Art to me is a working process. First the colors then energy. Takes me weeks, months to sit and paint and when I do if I don't do exactly what the paint wants, we fight. When my ego gets in the way I have a problem. Not the painting. Me.
Its an awareness that kind of chuckles when I get in its way.
Back from Miami
Miami has changed since the 70's. South Beach used to be known as Ocean Drive and if you sat on the ocean wall you can dip your feet in the water. Today half of mile of sand separates the sea from the luxurious hotels and bars.
That's when I had an existential moment walking around the Art Deco neon props.
I visit to see family, that's all I really go there to do. Creatively, I am vacant in Paradise. I may not be physically painting but in my head there are always all sorts of images and projects going on. I am in Miami and my mind goes blank and panic quickly ensues inside me.
Been thinking about the WHY. One of my many reasons is the ocean. What is the correlation between my creativity and the sea, and why when I am so close to it my creative well runs dry. Could it also be the neon props overwhelming my senses?. Miami is the city queen of neon...its everywhere, can't get away from it.
Yet...there is nothing creative I draw from it. Its fake.
Comedy Night
My cousin is in town and surfing the net for our favorite comedian Yannis Pappas, he tripped over a show Yannis was doing standup at The Stand comedy club on 20th street. We also got to see Jeannine Garofalo, Judah Friedlander, Bonnie McFarlane, Paul Virzi and Ari Shaffir mashing too. After the show we stopped to chat with Yannis outside the club because he pretty much knows us and my cousin wanted a send off to the girl he's sort of kind of interested in and Yannis obliged, taking a New York turn.
I posted the video on my Facebook page.
1979
My first collage experiment. Couldn't get the words out so I made a picture.
BULLSHIT
18x24
1979
If my boots could talk...
Traveled the world with me and then some...
Boxes 2
Bird's eye view of NYC- small slice- ME!
We all live in Boxes in NYC
When I collage I think and the work is very deliberate. Pure visual.
Navigate...
Clearing inner clutter messing with my mind.
Cleaning House
Cleaning house is like opening a can. Can't put it back once its been open.
1995
The question became, now that we can talk...please tell me how to live my life so I can do the exact opposite. 1995 was also the year I discovered Lukas Paints.
Terror
I looked at terror in the eye and it wasn't amused...
Very early work
I was never Norma Jean blowing like a candle in the wind.
Terror walked beside me.
Rummaging through old work....
I went through my old work over the weekend. It was a retrospective review.
More to come
Working on the last of the three
Hard at work
This is what I am working on.
Faces on Crystal Skull
I posted this picture on Facebook and then I got a text message from a friend that said there were two faces on the Crystal Ball! It was cool and freaky!
SEPTEMBER 28,2014
I went for a walk to clear my head and through the foliage I caught of glimpse of something shiny and transparent. I paused as alarms went off inside me.
I was a little frightened because where I live is known as an UFO hot spot and that body of water in particular has been written about in books such as " Close Encounters of the 5th Kind", where unidentified crafts have been seen by many eye witnesses emerging out of the water; I turned around in the opposite direction looking back one more time and from the corner of my eye I saw a translucent ghostly figure.
I ran home going straight for my paints because I wanted to capture what I had just seen. The painting literally painted itself. Its called Ghost of Fall.
I'm always experimenting!
Today I am working on new paintings and I am going to try to make small works, so I am off to the art supply store and will post my results soon!