The cigar box's resulting border, its leaf having been painted over at intervals. My front room floor is glittered with tiny fragments of leaf. I decided to give the borders a contrasting stripe look (a la Moorish architecture in Spain, for example) as the whole thing was looking entirely too contemporary with the borders all… Continue reading Intervals, in art and grammar
This afternoon, I killed a painting I did about a year and a half ago. It was on 2 facing panels of a hinged wooden cigar box— a box I wish to use for a new piece. I sanded it, stained it and obliterated the remaining ghost image with a glaze of linseed and oil… Continue reading Art as murder
But "twins" is so much simpler. In the meantime, (before I take better photographs), here is another angle of the Angels, with their fine gauge halos of sterling— not gold. (Note the trepanned skull; place to affix a head of hair to a bisque-built head.)
Left: Machine Number 11: Twins; Right: Machine Number 6: Flightless Angels Art! A sunday spent in air conditioning, making a mess and making a couple of assemblages. The one on the left involves a frame that was sent to me years ago by Beth (The Mad Framer). I cut a small piece of wood for… Continue reading Two new works: Machines Number 6 and 11
This June I returned for a second visit to the McKittrick Hotel for Sleep No More. (It was June when I went last year as well.) I nicked this scrap from the room with the coffin; the coffin was covered in these, but this one (among others) had become detached, and was lying on the… Continue reading Sleep No More
July already! 2012 is halfway gone. Last week was the first of the summer trips, and a beach week. Sunday at Fort Tilden followed by 4 days in Fire Island with a gaggle of friends. And quite a few ticky deer, poor things. They are bold, though, as evidenced by the above photograph. Since returning the… Continue reading The longest day of the year has come and gone, but the heat is just getting started.
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A drawing for today. This was one for a work project, "Nature Block Party"– see it in action at the (temporary) web site for this new offshoot of NYC Wildflower Week, and the new initiative, National Urban Biodiversity Week. Click on the image to see it larger.
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