March 31st, 2011

acrylic and spray paint on raw canvas

March 16-17, 2011

I should probably start dating these as they are still being worked on and have been for the past 6 months. Today I was thinking about Asger Jorn's detourned paintings today...might for a little while.

On the 17th I completely reworked these, this is what remains. I was more interested in small portions of the paintings, the parts rather than the whole.

Purposely left undone, these were the loosest areas and places where I saw something going on... that again was more mysterious and interesting than the big picture.

some new work...

pedro lost his head and is now repainted

acrylic on canvas approx. 36"x38"

all others approx. the same size but in oil on canvas

Ode to a Sailor, all of the work in the finished stage.

Pedro's paintings,

he looked sick, sicker than usual

what were some of the things he used to say?

what were his dreams?

always felt like he loved me, not in a good way

I think he said it once to me

here they are for eternity

he was a fisherman

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

so gray outside and I am thinking about last weekend when the sun was so bright. We were driving through western washington along the coast and it was around 4 o'clock. The colours were green, grey, blue and then red orange! the sun was setting and I was trying to photograph it all. However, it can't do justice to the colours I remember. This morning I drew to Triadic Ballet. Schlemmer's organization of colour in space and I am finding the figure-like forms both fascinating and a slight-bit scary? No, just out of this universe. I have posted some of the drawings here.

new work, not titled

forgot how much I love staining canvas

looking for sailor's art, found information on "woolies".

this is acrylic on raw canvas with thread (24"x24").

interesting so far as I may have found another way to increase the number of dimensions represented on my canvas surface.

something new, pedro series "all our failures"

clay, acrylic on primed canvas, 18"x24"

I recently began a series of paintings that function as an Ode to a person who I used to know and saw one day while sitting in a coffee shop. He had terribly declined in health and it is not clear now if it was even the person whom I thought it was. The series is still early in its development however; I am treating each canvas as an exploration into the idea of memorializing an image where this image also stands for the history of an image. What I find is required now is an exploration through several non–determined and intuitively lead explorations into materials that will trace time, ideas and attempt to show fleetingly, the thought process behind attempting representation and at the same time the need tp create a painting that seems to gasp the air around it from time to time. Going back to the stain seems to suit this need for immediacy and to provide the mystery of space and capture the past, memory, imagination and anything but the present. However, this could be a present or future in another dimension/universe.

Pedro, is my actor, he is a representation of a figure in a figurative painting. He is manipulatable, I use him and direct him like a puppet. We discuss painting and art in general, film, theatre, sculpture and he could be inserted here and there. He is dissolving into a new character.