so i am really curious to see what you will think of my newest piece
i do not know what to make of it at all
and some of the detail did not scan as well as i would have liked
the worms actually have little antennai but they don't show up very well in the scan
i am calling it "blue plate special"
About this blog
Several years ago I did a series of 99 drawings that I called Middle of the Night Art. That series, and the dialoge between my sister and myself brought me to a place where I finally began to really understand my art, my spirituality, and a sense of who I am in the world. I'm sharing the art and that dialogue here.
My sister's responses, as well as my own, are posted as comments. And I'd love to hear what anyone else has to say.
My sister's responses, as well as my own, are posted as comments. And I'd love to hear what anyone else has to say.
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Categories
- About Us (1)
- apple (1)
- Blue Plate Special (1)
- brick wall (2)
- broken open (2)
- car (1)
- coming out (2)
- Do we really have to come out (1)
- driving (1)
- Driving My Car Off The Road Into Nowhere (1)
- eating (2)
- fence (1)
- fish (3)
- food (2)
- gate (1)
- Gateway (1)
- growing (1)
- Inside My Heart (1)
- Leap and a Net Will Appear (1)
- net (1)
- night (1)
- Ooohh Nooo (1)
- plate (1)
- stake (2)
- swallowed (1)
- The Art Itself (2)
- Title Page (1)
- tree (2)
- Whoa Nelly That might hurt (1)
- worms (1)
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4 comments
Comment by Shirley Twofeathers on September 12, 2010 at 6:45 PM
i am thinking that soon all this art
day after relentless day
asking to be commented on
is going to be a burden for you or a ... hmmm ... whats the word i want...
a pressure for you
and so on the one hand i feel that i am being excruciatingly selfish and self absorbed
when i bombard you with my pictures
and on the other hand
i get so much from what you have to say about them...
and if i didnt have you to send them to
i am not sure what i would do
probably... i dont know... implode or something
so
i do want you to know that you do not have to give in depth commentary
on each one
unless you want to
and it is totally up to you how much time you want to spend
looking at them
and
also
i am going to continue to send them
every time i make one i am going to send it
so
if you get to a point where you are really tired of them
you will probably have to change your email address
and not tell me what it is
because part of the reason i do them
is to send them
which makes no sense when i write it
and even less than no sense when i reason it
and yet
having someone to send them to
as i make them
stimulates me to make them
so
thank you
for being so artfully stimulating
yesterday i did an unthinkable thing
and i did it twice
in one day
i did yoga
and i did pranayama
and i meditated
and i am planning to repeat that same
incredible scenario
again today.
Comment by Grace on September 12, 2010 at 6:46 PM
First this is very exciting to me - it is as if I discovered this medium, this new great artist - they may as well be my own drawings - go figure. I feel ENTIRELY interested in someone else for a change. A remarkably liberating sensation. This is real to me, and I am going through a time when very little seems real. I can't seem to have a conversation with anyone about anything trivial unless we have the common basis of the real conversation taking place underneath it. So there is no chance that I can ever tire of this conversation -
It is important to have two things from at least one person when you are an artist. Someone who will see the truth in what you do and someone who will verbalize it back to you. What else could we possibly desire?
It is no surprise that you meditated and did yoga. As Maharishi said once, art is a direct communication with the unified field. If we are communicating directly with the source of all things, then we are getting a cosmic alignment - a tune up. Art is meditation - you must sit, you must do this thing that the mind cannot quite wrap around - the mind gets occupied with something charming and without intellectual meaning and we can then get still. Art is yoga - you must do something in the physical, something very specific, and the curative effect of that disciplined doing is to still the mind.
Comment by Grace on September 12, 2010 at 6:47 PM
Blue plate - you are right it is a bit hard to see. Of course I would like to see it more clearly. But again, I love the enormity of it. Am I getting repetitive? It still strikes me as very bold. And there are the essentials only - the parts you leave out speak as loudly as the parts you put in. Is this a bad apple that this person is so lusty for? What a phenomenal statement. There is an unconsciousness of greed in that expression; the hand wraps around the apple like it would around a very sinful juicy hamburger. And as the observer I say, no, don't do that. Don't want that. Jeez, can't you reach for something better? I suppose that is how god feels about watching us day in and day out. And our eyes are only on the apple while he sits right across the table and stares very openly, unblinkingly right at us the eaters of this world. But in the middle of all that rotten-ness is the seed core, just as pristine and beautiful as ever. And there you see the only part that matters. God is in every one of your pictures as the witness. Have you noticed that? Its amazing.
Comment by Shirley Twofeathers on September 12, 2010 at 6:49 PM
ok..
well, hmm i guess i'll just jump right into the middle and say... about the blue plate special -- what it says to me is "hey, its all good. its all good!" and the little worms are like "it might be all good, but hey man, we're outa here"