March 21, 2009

painting update

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[Tablet PC sketch of what I have in mind. Click on image to enlarge etc.]
[UPDATE: 12.10am, 23rd March. “Desert­Manhat­tan” is finished. Hurrah!]
Desert­Manhat­tan is nearly finished. Four x Eight foot worth of insa­nity. Months of work. Will be pos­ting pic­tu­res soon.
My next pain­ting will be half that size– 48″ x 48″ square… the sketch above should give you an idea. Again, the theme comes from a fami­liar place. Like I said when I first star­ted on Desert­Manhat­tan:

I think being out here in Alpine, Texas, cove­red under a blan­ket of desert air and “Big Sky” brought about a wee change in me, at least in what I find inte­res­ting artis­ti­cally. The “car­toons on the back of busi­ness cards” for­mat came about in New York City, when living con­di­tions, shall we say, were far more intense, crow­ded and cram­ped. Not to men­tion, I was ten years youn­ger. Things change.

There’s a cer­tain inten­sity to being out here in the desert. There was a cer­tain inten­sity to living in New York. I’m trying to create objects that somehow cap­ture both. Hence its name.
Yeah, I know, it’s a silly, stu­pid, insane way to try to make a living, to try to spend a life. I’ve spent the last twenty years lear­ning this the hard way. The damage is already done. Alea iacta est. Rock on.
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2 Responses to “painting update”

  1. Ms Constantine says:
    March 21, 2009 at 10:11 PM

    Wow, that’s gorgeous!

  2. Walter Greenberg says:
    March 22, 2009 at 8:25 AM

    4′ *4′ is still huge when fra­med up, can you do a 2*2, or maybe a bit lar­ger? I have a space for it.