Thursday, August 30, 2018

"I Made a Kite for Larry Nixon a Year After He Died and I Would Like to Believe He Would Have Enjoyed Flying It"




















The majority of this piece was an old discarded art project by Danielle McArthur, which is to say the paper base and the red and tan tissue paper glued to it.  She allowed I could reclaim it.  I added - the post-it note, the spine of Child of God for an extended tail, the postage stamp and the postal sticker, as well as the writing in pencil.  Conceived of in Seattle, the summer of 2016, about a year after Larry died.  The pieces were all mostly in place but it took me awhile to anchor them down in a final form.  Avoidance issues I would imagine.  20 x 14 inches, Sunday, August 26th, 2018, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"A Life in the Woods"
















Paper doily, torn newspaper, torn Oyster Bar menu, torn page from an old copy of a Lawrence Durrell paperback (The Black Book) which came into my possession with some pre-existing writing; all this plus glue on torn cardboard,  6.75 x 9 inches, Sunday, August 26th, 2018, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2018

"But Those People Keep A Movin' and That's What Tortures Me"




















Pen, pencil and felt pen on cocktail napkins; cocktail napkins stapled and paperclipped to cardboard.  Cocktail napkins completed December 6th, 2017 at the Metropolitan Grill in Seattle.  Attached to cardboard Sunday, August 26th, 2018, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.  16 x 10.75 inches.

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"I'm Not Christ"




















Pen on paper, 5.75  x 5.5 inches.  The first version of this was created in Seattle in August of 2016 but lay fallow.  Then, on July 30th, 2018, here in Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, I tore off the bottom of the page and made it something different.  And so but then on Sunday, August 26th, 2018, also in Cathedral Hill, San Francisco, I decided to scratch out one last line, and now it's done.  Whatever that means.

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Friday, August 24, 2018

"Capucin Monk with Nail Through Head"




















Torn Mass card and nail, 1.25 x 1.25 inches, Friday, August 24th, 2018, Myrtle Street, San Francisco.

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(Original Untitled IBL Art)




















Torn paper, torn matchbook, matches, torn page from religious tract, chalk, felt pen, and glue on poster board, 13.25 x 10.5 inches, initiated Spring, 2017, Seattle; completed Saturday, August 18th, 2018, Harrington's Pub, Civic Center, San Francisco.

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Sunday, August 19, 2018

(Original Untitled IBL Art)
















Pencil, glue, charred wood, torn newspaper, torn matchbook, matches, film negative, torn book page and religious product packaging on torn cardboard, 8.25 x 10.75 inches, Tuesday, August 14th, 2018, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"The Reflection of Visible Light"




















Pencil, lipstick, charred wood, glue, torn newspaper and sticker on torn cardboard, 5.5 x 3 3/8 inches, Tuesday, August 14th, 2018, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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"Doll Eyes, Doll Mouth, Doll Legs"




















Pencil, lipstick, charred wood, staples and torn newspaper on cardboard, 8 3/8 x 4.5 inches, Tuesday, August 14th, 2018, Cathedral Hill, San Francisco.

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Photograph of - (Original Untitled IBL Art)




















At Leslie Jirsa's birthday party at the Black Rabbit in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, Saturday, April 21st, 2018, I saw a chalk board out on the back patio.  And, with some spiritual guidance from the Good Rabbi David Stein, I made my mark.  Did not measure this at the time, but to give you an idea it was probably 3 feet by 1.5 or 2 feet, something like that.

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"In the Field Where the Plane Went Down"




















The second of two completed right before we left Seattle (see previous post).  Honestly, one of  my favorite things I've ever done.

Colored pencil, charred wood and glue on paper, 8.25 x 5.25 inches, Saturday, April 15th, 2017, Moclips, WA.

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"American Ace, Universal Match"




















The first of two I will share completed right before we left Seattle.  We started packing in May of 2017, and I do believe this one and the next got caught up in a box to be shipped before they could be showcased here ("showcased").  Not to worry - making up for lost time, it hangs in our house in San Francisco now.

Torn match book, glue, tape, and torn page from religious tract on book cover (Novels of Dashiell Hammett, 1965 edition), 10.5 x 7 inches, Spring, 2017, Seattle.

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"Serious Gents Only"




















I did a series of these crosses in 2012, and the majority of them appeared in these pages in 2014.  But, unpacking after our move back to San Francisco, I found one that had not been dated or titled.  Rather than have you miss out on its majesty, I present it to you now.

Original IBL art - newspaper and glue,  11 x 8.25 inches, June/August 2012, Seattle.

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First Posts in Four Months

Apparently if you don't have a job for nearly a year, you have plenty of time for a variety of things - driving across the country twice, for example, and posting regularly to your blog.  I see now the last time I posted here was four months ago, from Pittsburgh, as I caught up on some of the last New York photographs I wanted to post.  But now, having returned to San Francisco, and setting up on Myrtle Street again while simultaneously going back to work 40 hours/week; well, it slows a boy down, I don't mind saying.  Happy to have a moment to get caught up and share a few things from the past and then from very recently - look for those later today.  Going forward I hope to keep it up more regularly than I have.

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