It seems important to me not to let July seep away without another post or two.
“Igloos Elsewhere” is a brand-new piece using papier colle, acrylic paint, charcoal, and a lovely soft B8 pencil. It is 30″ x 22″.
“Papier colle” is collage, but i like the term better: it means literally “glued on paper,” which is exactly all i’m working with – no pictures, no text, no patterns, just glued on paper.
IGLOOS is one of those works that comes from je ne sais quoi – whimsical, automatic, the unconscious: you decide.
It started with a dream of using these materials, though the dream image was a bit different from this result.
Maybe that one will come later; maybe i have to get better at it first to be able to get there.
Maybe the whole dream image was stupid. Who knows? It’s just stuff i’m doing! – xo, james
In response to bushel baskets of fan mail clamoring for a photo of this blogger, i bow to the inevitable and …behold!
After graduating high school, I spent the summer on my uncle’s farm in Missouri. I turned 18 that summer. That was a helluva long time ago!
The other guy in the picture is my cousin Carl Richard Moody. The farm belonged to Carmel Moody, Carl Richard’s dad, my mom’s brother. The Moody men are big, hard-working farmers – even cousin Dick, Carl Richard’s son, who lives in Kansas City, hasn’t dusted quite all the farm off of himself!
And they are unusually sweet and loving people, especially for men. In later years, one time my dad caught a mess of fish on Carl Richard’s pond and gave them to Carl Richard; he asked my dad if it would be all right if he let them go back in the pond, as he didn’t need them.
Check it out. CLICK on any image to go to a page with all three enlarged.
Here are three examples from my recent series of guerilla prints of eucalyptus stumps titled “Bioforms.”
“Bioforms”: shapes taken by living organisms growing changing dying naturally.
“Guerilla printing”: do it yourself with paint paper and a wooden spoon. “Eucalyptus”: great tall slender trees with silver dollar leaves that
shake all over in the breeze.
I like these three together because they show some of the variety of shapes as well as color contrasts.
I am stoked! Today i finished a philosophical
... "Quenching Thirst"
essay, my first significant such effort in quite awhile. It pulls together and expresses ideas that have been germinating in my thought and meditation for years.
It is titled, “THE GOLDEN CHALICE: Secrets of Time and Creativity.” To access it, click on the golden chalice: at top of the sidebar on the right side of this page. Or click right here. Also, more clicking: Click on any image in the essay to bring up a page of enlargements.
In preview, a few lines from the first page:
“Why are so many people so often in a rush and stressed these days, with way more to do than time allows? … It isn’t just right now, either; it has been going on for years. … It is as though time itself has speeded up! It is rushing past so quickly now, that we have no time … to eat? … to sleep? Is there time to breathe? Do we have time to think? … I don’t like it. I like the technology, but I don’t like being rushed. … And I’m doing something about it! I’m publishing this essay, which does two things: One, it gets at the deeper reasons why time has speeded up, it doesn’t just blame technology; and two, it offers a key to how to make it better, how to slow time down….”
