2/7/2012 -
A lot has happened since I posted anything here at the World Vane site. I was diagnosed with MDS - Myelodysplastic syndrome. Its no picnic. I ache most of the time, headache, take anti-viral and anti-biotics every day - Joy joy. I'm sort of forced into retirement. I can't continue with the remodeling at this house I'm living in because I need to heal and stressing myself prevents that. I'm doing okay though. The doc says that I am responding to the chemo therapy, and they seem to be optimistic. Its weird: I've been trying to find time to paint and write and now I have all the time in the world. This stuff takes forever to get through with me. Doc says the hard part is laying around all day like a slug unable to do things. Right now I can't be in the public without a mask on (I'm getting real tired of that).
So I pulled out my "2006 - 6" series of canvases. Yeah, you guessed it, I started the six of them in 2006. Sometimes I come up with the strangest ideas. At any rate, I am realizing that I've forgotten all my tricks. I haven't been painting in some time because I've been everyone's "go to" mule for doing shit work. Actually its that stupid work that contributed to the bone marrow thing. Chemicals, solvents and cleaners and paint (house) - it all does add up. I think I'm going to be cosmic selfish when I pull out of this and do my thing for a change. So I'm staring at these canvases and the remarkable thing is that I discovered some old slides that I took of a lot of the stuff I did in the '80s and they are in stages - and I can see how I built them, in the process. Its been a re-education. I still want to post a lot of the stuff I've done. It all looks like sixteen people were involved for all the different "styles" I played with.
My problem is I get bored fast and am always trying something new. The problem with that is that I'm not marketable. There is no "Gullyean(?)" style. Most predominantly I would say the non-objective concrete (not sidewalk) stuff is the most common thread. I have abandoned the hardedge routine for some time now - though I do like that process. If I have time I may get back into it. Which makes me think that I can combine all the different techniques: hardedge - palette knife - brush, etc. Pull out all the stops. Why not! No galleries are knocking on my door anyway. The web is a new development though and maybe I'll be able to sell the stuff as "prints" that people can buy online. The original stretched canvases are just too damn rare. The paintings wind up lost or stolen (which has happened to me) and then I've got nothing. The few slides I found were singles with no backups too. The material is all too unique. I've even had a painting "burned" - right up the middle - can't make a print out of that unless I'm looking for a good laugh.
I'll try not to stay away from this (blog) for too long, like I have. Again, I have time now, and I might as well stay current, if possible.
9/29/2011 -
I changed the first page of this site today. Took a lot of text out. Much of what I do (artwise) involves text (reading) - its part of the art. Reading slows things down. A lot of this stuff has a tendency to turn into philosophy and then "yawn", you've lost 90% of your audience. So if you want to read what is the last thing I did in here - if I remember - I'll throw it here. In this "blog." Always sounds like "flog."
The other thing going on is I'm in a way fored into retirement. Low blood cells. Don't work. Sounds like fun but it ain't. Its serious enough, so I'm forced to lay low, no more superman saving the universe sh-t for a while. Let somebody else do it.
So get into the paintings before I don't have the energy to do it. Large size (not gigantic) canvases are hard labor. On the back and arms. (damn; and that's what feels like lead right now.)
Its closer to a journal? Rant? Hot air of one sort or another?