January 2006
paintings
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#4, January 2006
All paintings are acrylic on paper, 44 x 30
inches unless otherwise
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January 15, 2006. Lac Ouaureau.
Noon.
As Susan Sontag’s were hers, these are my thoughts on interpretation…Method 1, Tea Leaves…
Read the tea leaves in the bottom of your cup. When you do it yourself you will be locked up in your own fears and hopes. Whatever you put in is what you will get out. How do you know the world is really that way?If you ask Madam Lazonga to read your leaves in a teashop, she will see the fears and hopes in your face, will say something vague and you will rationalize her words to fit.
Method 2, Tarot…
When you read the Tarot yourself you will be locked up in your own fears and hopes. Whatever you put in is what you will get out. How do you know the world is really that way?Ask Madame Lazonga to read your Tarot in her psychic parlor or on the telephone or the internet (she shuffles the cards for you). She will say something vague and you will rationalize her words to fit.
Method 3, The Paintings…
When you read your paintings yourself, you will be locked up in your own fears and hopes. Whatever you put in them is what you will get out of them. How do you know the world is really that way?
Method 4, The Experts…
Don’t ask Madame Lazonga to read your work (we all know she’s a fraud), ask the critics to read it. Locked up in their own fears and hopes, they will say you should fulfill them. You will think the world has spoken and kill yourself.
Method 5, Don’t interpret…
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However, when I see the sweep of my work during the half century since I finally “got it together” sometime in the mid 1950’s, I see the mirror of my inner life. Yes, hindsight works. But every time in all that time and now the mirror is clouded with fear and hope. Like reading tea leaves and Tarot, I rationalize to fit.
It’s only a parlor game of wish fulfillment; don’t live or die by the results.
The January 2006 Paintings.
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