New show underway @ Art Café

You can see a quick preview of the new show under construction at the Café here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ingZV2FM_H0

Watch for details of intriguing and artsy public events.

The finished product

Here is the finished painting. It is now called "What a TV Sees." The vantage of the painting looks down on the assembly as if through the screen of an elevated television. If you viewed the video in the prior post, you will notice that the rightmost figure has changed. A face has replace the philosophical symbol. The coat has transformed along with the bag on the bar.

I'll reserve philosophical comment until later.

Painting and philosophy

A new painting is on display at the Art Cafe. Although called by various titles, it hangs by the name "What a TV Sees." The new show which does not yet have a name includes works by Dean Aldrich, Diane Janowski, Pepsi Lyon, and Allen C. Smith. Events will be announced to focus on the works and artists and involve the public. Stay tuned.

My painting came to life over a ten day span in January. The painting in a pre-completion state can be viewed here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcZ2ZAD3ar0&list=LLwJQPc0SABJcQby8appYxRg&index=1&feature=plpp_video

Painting entails making decisions rather than choices. A decision cuts off alternatives where a choice can be revisited and altered. The buffet table offers choices. If what you choose does not suit your taste, you can choose something else. During the choosing all alternatives are equally available and unaffected by other choices. Once one starts marking up a canvas, decisions replace choices. Making decisions in painting transmutes the value and availability of future options so that alternatives are often eliminated or radically altered.

The progressive history of decisions tells one story about "What a TV Sees." If the work works for you, it tells many other stories too.

Like they say in Manhattan, check it out!

Back

Where have I been? Two years since the last post. Maybe I've been thinking of something to say.

Reality TV

You watch it because you wouldn’t
mind seeing some hot-shot
make a fool of himself
but he never does. Instead
someone like you or me get
our wherewithal sloshed like a
bucket that stokes the derisive
laughter—like nobody’s business.
But it’s everyone’s business on TV.

The sheer earnestness of a let down
no one can acknowledge
even more so because it’s true
truer even than reality TV.
No one needs to sponsor one disappointment
after another. Even when we all
get our stories straight
the hot-shot still gets all the goods.

Absolution

Countering what assails us
will not save us

Juxtaposition is just a position
like any other

Salvation sans savior
means
all are deemed worthy

No one can heal us all

Blessed be
she
we
it

Not the dominator, yet
he too shall

Be healed