Its all getting out of hand....paintings a go go, and black fingernails until the show. I keep mixing up real characters with false or historic. Each with their own hidden meaning for me. The question is whether the variants of paint translate the historicism...
My private rebellion against mainstream 'statement' orientated art has manifested itself in the traditions of painting and writing. I allude to narrative, with an awareness of the inevitable illusion of aesthetics. We should be searching continually for answers. This rebuke of fact is not escapism or fantasy, it is revisionism and reality.
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'There was some identifiable presence'.
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'Seen a couple o scarecrows'.
# 3 [7 May 2008]
Its all getting out of hand....paintings a go go, and black fingernails until the show. I keep mixing up real characters with false or historic. Each with their own hidden meaning for me. The question is whether the variants of paint translate the historicism...
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'He shock of the new'.
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'In a puzzled spot'.
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'When out, best kept under wraps.'.
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'Bulky egg on legs'.
# 2 [2 May 2008]
one week on...
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'Can't escape the Judgement'. Oil, material, coloured pencils, permanent marker
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'The Distressed Poet'. Oil paint on board
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'Communicates Deception'. Oil, graphite, marker on board 4' by 4'
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'In a puzzled spot'.
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'In a puzzled spot'.
# 1 [25 April 2008]
My private rebellion against mainstream 'statement' orientated art has manifested itself in the traditions of painting and writing. I allude to narrative, with an awareness of the inevitable illusion of aesthetics. We should be searching continually for answers. This rebuke of fact is not escapism or fantasy, it is revisionism and reality.