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From my studio notes about making this
painting....
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Source images for #3 May 2010
is the 1958 series
"From one ear of good corn"
pinned up on the studio wall |
Source image for #3 May.
Watercolor and pencil on paper,
9 x 12 inches.
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The origin of #3 May comes from the
top left image in the set of eleven from the 1958 "From one ear
of good corn" group
on the studio wall. Image at left above
is the complete set on the wall, and the particular "From One Ear
of Good Corn" image
from that group is on right above. (The color is so different because
the images were made with different cameras 10 years apart.)
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May 23, 2010.
Lac Ouaureau, late afternoon.
Continue with old signs and symbols, images and themes
from long ago…
Photoshop the old
photos of the 1958
From One Ear of Good Corn series (includes White Stag
group) and pin it up on studio wall in the same manner as the
Landscapes in transition group had been for #s 1 and 2 May. Make a new from the old. What’s it say? Shut
up and wonder.
Thinking about it, I
had gone back to the good corn in some 1965 drawings (see 1965
drawings numbers 7
and 9), and
with my 1967 drawings of
"The Boy's Union Tool Chest" with the feather
of spirit and the ear of good corn of cock at union in the box, and
again in 2002 with
#4 February, "From one ear of good corn..."
Night.
Looking at these on the wall, and thinking/feeling all the
fifty years since—well, it (my cock) did all that… and R-- and H-- stretched the bow. “[They] shot an arrow in the air, and if it
landed, they knew not where.” Yes, little did they know.
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#3 May 2010.
Acrylic with collage on paper.
40 x 27 inches.
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A
note about method and meaning…
Start with something from the original, let the new
medium and scale make the then become now and reveal new images and
meanings.
Like how all those
reaching hearts needed something to reach for, and all I could find
was a disk of "spiritual" blue with a white drop in it.
What the hell does that mean? All these years staying away from
the "spirituelle", and now all the hearts want a blue disk? Well,
I still won't give them fake. It's got a cum drop in it for
climax. |
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