This is a Test

 (24" x 36") 14 HOURS to complete

 (14" x 22") 1 HOUR 

 (10" x 15")  5 MINUTES

  (6"x10")  1 MINUTE 

Meaningful/Meaningless

(Acrylic, oil stick on canvas, 24"x36")

                    "I've always known what I've wanted, and most people don't." Georgia O'Keefe 

On Crenshaw Boulevard (on the other side of the tracks -- the tracks being the 10 freeway) there's a bookstore called Dawah which, besides lots of Muslim literature, sells incense and essential oils for aroma therapy.

They have hundreds of plastic gallon jugs with names like "Sudden Joy",  "Night Moves" and "Hope Eternal".  They also have many with historical and pop culture names like "Kobe", "Tupac" and "Marcus Garvey".    The salesman's joke was that they don't sell a lot of "Obama Time" because it's too vanilla.

I went home with  a small bottle of "Spearmint morning."  I wanted to like "Sudden Joy" but it came on too strong.

A Time For Heroes

(acrylic on vintage wallpaper 30"x 75")

Jotting down notes about modern myth making using my Bic VELOCITY™pen, after shaving with my Schick XTREME3™ razor,  all the while standing in my UnderArmor IGNITE™ crew socks.

Hall of Fame

On a recent road trip, I stopped at the Kansas Teacher's Hall of Fame in Dodge City.  The above pictures are of the founder Lawrence Stanton and the 2013 inductees.   Our docent Mrs. Williams, who taught for thirty years herself before retiring last fall, said the biggest change in her tenure as a teacher was more parent involvement.   And not always for the better.   "Specially when they all think their kids are a genius." 

The second floor housed a lonely wax museum filled mostly with western heros of Dodge City lore, and, inexplicably, a very disappointed LBJ.

Big Fucking Head (unpainted/painted)

                                                         (Papier Mache, Acrylic paint)                                  

DPB

Logo for my buddy Harv's BBQ Team!

The Big Terrific Reminisces

                                                                                                         ( 4"x 6" zine)

Now it's a party.

Wrassler

California Beaches!

Spent a day at the Salton Sea in an area dubbed the "Salton Riviera" by real estate promotors in the 1960's.   Unfortunately massive pesticide run-off into the already highly salinated water doomed their dreams.  But you gotta love the optimism.  

                                                                                                 (photos taken by Boyd Hale, David Mayer, Steve Nelson and Ransom Riggs)

It's Me, I'm Here.

(papier mache, acrylic paint,  21" tall)

It's good to be just plain happy; it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how, and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well, that is beyond happiness, that is bliss, and if you have any sense you ought to kill yourself on the spot and be done with it.

                                                                        Henry Miller

My Brave Face

                                                                                                      (Acrylic, repurposed wood approximately 3' x 1.5')

My Great Grandma back in Oklahoma was always commenting on someone's club foot, or their hair lip, or their deformed arm by saying, "sometimes God doesn't give with both hands."  I was nine at the time and I remember thinking, "I'm not sure I like this God guy."
                                                

   

Salesman

(Acrylic, suitcase handle, found board 14 x 16)

True newspaper headline of the week:  "Burlington Man Stabbed After Sign Language Mistaken for Gang Signs."

Possible Titles for Upcoming Art Show

Available for Weddings and Birthdays

Parked off  Sunset, playing Bird on a Wire by Leonard Cohen.  Maybe three dollars in his tip jar.   He told me his favorite artist was John Lennon  because he was inspired by Lennon's quote, "where there's life, there's hope. "  But then laughed and added that Lennon was shot dead a couple days later, so what did he know.