I don’t know about you but …

If you’ve been reading along as I’ve been posting you might agree that we need a breather from the somewhat leaden content of the last few posts. We need some of that unbearable lightness of being author Milan Kundera wrote about.

Et voila :

title : dusking
medium : oil pastel on paper, wood support
dimensions : ? … 4″ wide x 7″ high

This view was snatched out of the air with barely twenty minutes of daylight left hanging on a July evening on Lake Calabogie in Ontario. It is my impression that I have only rarely succeeded in capturing anything of merit with the inspired quickness of a true landscape painter … however, this is one of those rare examples. I gave it to my parents for christmas that year – 2001. The last time I checked it was hanging in the hall near the kitchen doorway. Nice one.

title : our way of life
medium : toy tanks, bits of advertising, ink jet printed dick, jane & mother and oil on paper, wood support
dimensions : mmm… roughly 2′ x 2 1/2′

This is one of those pictures that speaks so well for itself I tend to think I ought to say very little if anything about it. I will say that the title is one of the top three sing-song refrains heard after the planes crashed on September 11, 2001.

If we shoved all of our stock answers to the back of the junk drawer where they belong and pondered long, hard and honsestly about just what it is we think is so defensible about our way of life I wonder what we’d come up with. No prompting from animatrons and/or what passes for mainstream journalism either… who died and willed us the eternal servitude of the rest of the world? I wonder.

Are you sleeping?

Miscellaneous. Ms. Ellaneous. That’s me. There is no rhyme or reason to my archival procedures. My routine consists of posting at least one image of one thing I’ve made, once a day. We’ve got quite a backlog to get through, to say nothing of the pile of handmade things which slipped through my fingers before getting their picture taken. Nevermind. Attachment is counter-productive.

Next …?

title : event horizon
medium : pencil, oilpastel, magazine cuttings, ink, sharpie marker & urethane on paper.
dimensions : 11″ x 7″ (ish)

The date on this would be somewhere around 1997, 98 … I think it’s been sold but I don’t remember exactly. I loved this crazy little piece and I can only apologize for the image quality here – it does not do the work justice. I’m also sure this had another title once upon a time but what the heck was it? event horizon struck me like a brick as a very good working title for lack of anything prior. If anyone out there happens by wildly ordered electron madness to find themselves reading this and looking at that and they own the little lost art-i-fact please contact me and tell me what I called it…