Les sans fioritures toile
I have this incredibly horrendous, shellacked, 18x14 canvas "art" lurking in my living room these days. It was pilfered from the 3rd floor two inhabitants ago and until now I've had it hanging curiously backwards--the frame and unpainted backside showing. Tomorrow I'll be restoring it to something that at least has the potential to 'face the world' b/w/o papier-mâché. This is something that I somehow missed doing as a kid. I must have seen other kids doing this at some point though, because it seems all too familiar to me. I am certain that I have never done this and that fact alone has me somewhat excited. It strikes me as an incredibly useful medium though and I'm interested in seeing how the surface ends up.
I suspect that all this comes about having gone to see the UNF Faculty Exhibit the other day. (This is what I will call the display being shown at the JaxMoCA for the next 36 hours as Robert Motherwell's body of work left me thoroughly unimpressed) One of my former instructors, Paul Karabinis had recently completed salt prints on display and as usual, they were impeccably executed, subtlety brilliant and just stellar examples of what can be done using the medium for all that it is and all that it is not as well. I just can't say enough about the man. Doing work for clients as a commercial/fine art Black and White printer for several years, I am highly averse to "artistes' and much prefer amateurs or people who are simply trying to make a picture. When I was working with the man, he was producing images daily--one image, every day, good or bad, but something new needed to be attempted and followed through to completion. And while he can hardly be called an amateur (he's probably forgotten more about photography than most will ever know) he has an unembellished sincerity about what he is engaged in that I appreciate and respect quite emphatically.
(T)his approach yields some truly remarkable and unpretentious results. Anyhow, I can't really be around Paul--or even his work apparently--without wanting to make a picture or two.
Perhaps I should make a portrait of Mitch McConnell (R - KY) In the latest Weekly Address by the GOP, he stated ". . . we believe to whom much is given, much is expected." I'm still trying to think of some way to point out in a really clever way how close that is to "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." OMGZ - SOCIALISZM!!! We may need to have his likeness preserved for posterity before his constituents get frothy from some Glen Beck diatribe and take him off the map.
(heaven forbid!)
Oh, and New Year's Resolution: I'm having some fun w/ Glenn Beck. I don't know how yet, but it is now a little side-project. I'm takin' the piss on G.B. for the next 12 months because, well, he's just a laughable little douche rife with possibility. (godbless'im!)
I suspect that all this comes about having gone to see the UNF Faculty Exhibit the other day. (This is what I will call the display being shown at the JaxMoCA for the next 36 hours as Robert Motherwell's body of work left me thoroughly unimpressed) One of my former instructors, Paul Karabinis had recently completed salt prints on display and as usual, they were impeccably executed, subtlety brilliant and just stellar examples of what can be done using the medium for all that it is and all that it is not as well. I just can't say enough about the man. Doing work for clients as a commercial/fine art Black and White printer for several years, I am highly averse to "artistes' and much prefer amateurs or people who are simply trying to make a picture. When I was working with the man, he was producing images daily--one image, every day, good or bad, but something new needed to be attempted and followed through to completion. And while he can hardly be called an amateur (he's probably forgotten more about photography than most will ever know) he has an unembellished sincerity about what he is engaged in that I appreciate and respect quite emphatically.
(T)his approach yields some truly remarkable and unpretentious results. Anyhow, I can't really be around Paul--or even his work apparently--without wanting to make a picture or two.
Perhaps I should make a portrait of Mitch McConnell (R - KY) In the latest Weekly Address by the GOP, he stated ". . . we believe to whom much is given, much is expected." I'm still trying to think of some way to point out in a really clever way how close that is to "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need." OMGZ - SOCIALISZM!!! We may need to have his likeness preserved for posterity before his constituents get frothy from some Glen Beck diatribe and take him off the map.
(heaven forbid!)
Oh, and New Year's Resolution: I'm having some fun w/ Glenn Beck. I don't know how yet, but it is now a little side-project. I'm takin' the piss on G.B. for the next 12 months because, well, he's just a laughable little douche rife with possibility. (godbless'im!)