new painting!

[danschank]

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[ceciliaj]

Love it! You are famous.

[danschank]

i don't know about that...

[bing_crosby]

it was great to see them in person. I loved the big furry blob in the biggest one.

Not in this one, but a lot of the others-- what are the ties about, do you think? Is that like the ultimate detritus of our civilization? The still-tied discarded tie? I kept thinking about those later.

[danschank]

i got asked about the ties a lot at the opening... i'm not sure i have a rational explanation for them (other than to say that if i DID have a rational explanation, i'd probably paint something else). i think, originally, i was looking for domestic, everyday objects that i encounter personally to translate into some decorative, hastily assembled markers of territory? but it was more intuitive than that. i think when i was working more with outright desert-scapes, i wanted things to signify that these weren't, like, "rural" depictions. at this point, i think i'm moving away from the ties AND the desert. i'm getting more interested in my own immediate space, and how things like gentrification alternately build it up and destroy it.

thanks again for coming out. i wish we had more time to chat!

happy new painting

[lostcosmonaut]

i keep thinking I see Little Nemo inside th painting

--mza.

winsor mc cay is a BIG influence

[danschank]

also, your avatar really looks like you.

i had a professor years ago who turned me on to little nemo, claiming that it would change the whole relationship to space in my work. he ended up kinda right.

[sonicsonia]

your paintings are absolutely fantastic! and congrats to the show. i wish i was closer so i could see them in real ...

[danschank]

thanks!

this is kind of random

[apresminuit]

but this article made me think of your stuff.

specifically, this analogy:

"If you add more clothing to a spinning washing machine, you increase the mass of its rim, and the machine needs to exert a greater force to make the wheel reverse direction," explains lead author Ludwig Mathey. "But in a supersolid washing machine, some of the clothes would mysteriously hover in space, staying stationary as the washer spins and making it easier for the wheel to reverse direction. Moreover, these hovering, frictionless clothes would form a predictable pattern-such as frictionless socks alternating with frictionless shirts-just as atoms arrange themselves in a repeating pattern in a crystal."

Re: this is kind of random

[danschank]

thanks. i LOVE stuff like this!