3 1/2″ x 4″
This one is a tiny drawing of an idea that I may (or may not) realize in which I take some of the paintings from my Edelweiss series and add extensions to them. For instance, taking this painting, and adding a leaping hare addendum.
Those paintings were made strictly from old family photo albums, with the rule of ‘no invention’, but it may be time to let them loosen up and get out some dance moves.
18″ x 24″
8″ x 11″
This is a very faint drawing on two sheets of acetate of a piggyback ride in the rain. Evidence that a self-education is underway into the basics of animation. More to come on how that relates to the wastrels.
11″ x 14″
11″ x 14″
3″ x 5″
10″ x 13″
(entering phrases into Google Translate, starting with the English the retranslating back into English)
English: I do things for you. And you are done for.
French: I do things for you. And you are done.
Hindi: I work for you. And you are.
Arabic: I work well for you. You.
12″ x 14″
A stretch of road from Anniesland to the City Centre.
Anniesland, Crow Road, Cleveden Road, Byres Road, Queen Margaret Drive, Kelvinbridge Underground, Maryhill Road, St. Georges Cross Underground, M8 Motorway, Cowcaddens Road, City Centre.
6″ x 6″
7″ x 10″
11″ x 14″
“I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It’s my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpening exercises.”
– Maurice Sendak (1928 – 2012)
9″ x 12″
Bookoo brushes wolf and the wolf gives no secret name.
11″ x 19″
shhh
the children have forgotten
been
4″ x 4″
12″ x 15″
4″ x 4″
8″ x 10″
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
-T.S. Eliot, from the opening of The Wasteland
15″ x 20″
This one here is related to “We Got Ter Go Ter Nudder Kentry“. (easier if you have a mirror handy)
7″ x 9″
7″ x 9″
To my surprise, the Wastrels have names. Bookoo is the girl. Cilice is the boy.
Probably because she splits herself into multiples and stashes back-ups of herself for safe-keeping. And because he wears her hair stitched into the lining of his shirt. Glad to see they’ve made amends for now. Solidarity.
8″ x 10″
The art of living has no history: it does not evolve: the pleasure which vanishes vanishes for good, there is no substitute for it. Other pleasures come, which replace nothing. No progress in pleasures, nothing but mutations. – Roland Barthes
6″ x 9″
7″ x 9″
7 1/2″ x 11″
6″ x 8″
8″ x 8″
11″ x 14″
7″ x 9 1/2″
11″ x 14″
12″ x 18″
6″ x 8″
5″ x 5 1/2″
20″ x 30″
11″ x 14″
11″ x 14″
a few definitions of Vignette:
8″ x 28 1/2″
This is based on sketches I made while traveling east to west across the US a few years ago. So many decorative objects.
each 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
An experiment in red ink and paper transparency.
Another set of the Glasgow numbers.
11″ x 14″
7″ x 9 1/2″
(five translations of Psalm 54:13. this relates to the wastrels in a way that will be apparent later)
13 ibi ceciderunt qui operantur iniquitatem expulsi sunt nec potuerunt stare
13 But as for me, when they were sick, My clothing was sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting; And my prayer would return to my own heart.
13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
13 But I, when they were sick– I wore sackcloth; I afflicted myself with fasting; I prayed with head bowed on my chest.
13 Yet when they were sick, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. My prayers returned to me unanswered.
7″ x 10 1/4″
Here’s another one to a hundred, impersonating a legal pad.
7″ x 10 1/4″
This is a rendition of a piece of paper I found on the sidewalk in Glasgow many years ago. There are two 42’s in the original as well. And also the odd inverted ‘100’ at the end, and then the proper 100 on the line by itself. Those are also faithful to the original.
10 1/2″ x 11″
The title comes from a postcard I received yesterday from the many-armed Eric Jordan.
8″ x 10″
The Little Mute Boy
Federico García Lorca
The little boy was looking for his voice.
(The king of the crickets had it.)
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.
I do not want it for speaking with;
I will make a ring of it
so that he may wear my silence
on his little finger
In a drop of water
the little boy was looking for his voice.
(The captive voice, far away,
put on a cricket’s clothes.)
9″ x 12″
other possible titles:
Hidden from the Eye in the Sky
The Panopticon
Wastrels Under Surveillance
Boxcar
13″ x 13″
9″ x 12″
24″ x 30″
This one took longer than a day; part of an ongoing compositional study based on old photographs of musicians and their instruments.
18″ x 24″
This is a drawing I did for a passel of sixth graders in California a few weeks ago. They liked my Fear of Anaesthesia drawing (taken from Rembrandt’s Dr. Tulp) which they interpreted wonderfully. So I drew them all as cartoon ghosts.
5″ x 5″
5″ x 10″
4″ x 8″
11″ x 15″
11″ x 15″
9″ x 12″
9″ x 12″
7 1/2″ x 15″
7 1/2″ x 15″
(dim. unknown)
Bummer, wish I hadn’t destroyed this. I painted it a few years ago, photographed it and immediately painted over it.
24″ x 30″
8″ x 10″
17″ x 17″
total dim. 8″ x 32″
11″ x 14″
She names the wolf, but will not tell the boy, nor the wolf, what the name is. The name passes quickly in an out of time.
Two or more voices that are harmonically interdependent — this is called polyphony. Said with a lift in the middle: puh-LIF-unny. That would make a good name, but it is not the name she picks.
11″ x 14″
8″ x 13″
8″ x 10″
“Her lips were soft and they wetted his check; and they made a tiny little noise: kiss. Why did people do that with their two faces?
(from James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man)
8″ x 10″
8″ x 10″
9″ x 12″
11″ x 14″
7″ x 10″
11″ x 14″
8″ x 10″
11″ x 14″
4″ x 4″
9″ x 14″
8″ x 10″
8″ x 10″
11″ x 14″
12″ x 16″
made from photos taken in Waveland, MS in 2005.
11″ x 14″
drawing from back in 2005 of a dress found on the side of the road.
7″ x 10″
You are a river
(churning current, steadiness, reflector of light, carrier of life)
8″ x 10″
12″ x 12″
12″ x 12″
A thrift store find.
8″ x 10″
8″ x 10″
8″ x 10″
8″ x 10″
8″ x 10″
22″ x 30″
8″x 10″
36″ x 48″
28″ x 36″
9″ x 12″
3″ x 5″
