30 January 2015
FEAR bubblegum trading cards
These were on exhibit at the Metro Curate Art Fair last week. Work will be exhibited at the "Off the Grid" show at Umbrella Arts Opening Thursday, February 12, 2015. 317 East 9th Street, NYC
17 January 2015
New Poem ~ My Daddy Wanted Me Out!
My Daddy wanted me
out
of that
school
Wanted me OUT
Said the other
boys
Stole
my
lunch
money
Wanted me OUT
told my teachers I
was
Bullied
Wanted me OUT
wanted me to go
to
some NICER school
in
another direction
I
didn’t know
Wanted me out
told me if I
wanted to play
With
THAT kind
I could
move into the Projects
and be like they be.
My Daddy wanted me out
of that place
told them my
grades
suffered
told them the
other boys
stole
my
Lunch
money.
Wanted me OUT.
I would walk there sometimes
Three miles
If
the bus was
Running
LATE
Or
the drivers were on strike.
My Daddy wanted me out
when Woolworth’s
got picketed
after
I brought my friend home
after school
Wanted me to go to that
NICER
school
that
White
school
in the other direction
in the other direction
from where we
lived
And
which I didn’t know
My Daddy wanted me out
Said I was bullied
Said the other
boys
stole
my
Lunch
money
Said I didn’t understand
What it was like
To get beat up by
a
Colored
He was right about
that
For the welts and belt bruises
On my back
On my legs
On my arms
were put there by him
they established
Ownership.
Ya see,
I was my Daddy’s
Little white boy slave
I
suppose.
My daddy didn’t want them
To connect that
Wanted me out of that BLACK school
Said I didn’t understand
And if I wanted to
Play with those
kind
I
could
live
in the Projects
Said the other boys
Stole my lunch
money
But I didn’t want to go.
I was safe there.
My Daddy wanted me
OUT
of
that school
Said I didn’t understand
Yet never saw
That I was safe
There.
from some of those same beatings
that I saw had
happened
to my school mates
Ancestors
Foul, cruel
beatings rendered
All the more real
when
Meted
out by your owner.
When delivered
without
Questions
The
results borne
Out
In
Public
A mark of pride
For
not reacting
Made
me stronger
You see,
I never was just some
Ordinary
Two-toned White
boy
I was
Property
Poor white trash.
I never got that money stolen
Since
I never had enough
lunch money
To
steal
Those beatings didn’t come
From little black
boys
They were my
Daddy’s
He OWNED me
How was that any different from my friends?
Only once
I almost cried
When talking to
Mrs. James
My home room
teacher
She and I
We never talked
about
Daddy
wantin’
To take me out of
School
She only said
I was safe there
At least eight
hours
Out of the day.
NOTE: The poem is a gut reaction to the Ferguson, MO murder of an unarmed youth named Michael Brown by police officer Darrin Wilson. (c) 2014 / Will Brady
New Work ~ Collage / Constructions
Tri-Lake Ice Fishing Tournament ~ Sunday, February 8, 2015
Moodus Sportsman’s Club
Tri-Lake Ice Fishing Tournament
Sunday, February 8, 2014 ~ 6:30 am – 1 pm
Send an e-mail to MSC site maintainer ~ moodussportsman@gmail.com and well send back a printable application form
Click here for a printable Tournament application form, print it out, fill it in and send to address below.
Weather/Ice decision: 4:00 pm Saturday 2/07, pls call 873-3381 to confirm
Rain / no ice date: February 15th
Tournament Sponsor: Moodus Sportsman’s Club
Tournament Fee: $20.00 per person ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST HAVE VALID
CT FISHING LICENSE -- LICENSE MUST BE PRESENTED FOR AWARDS.
Prize Fish Types: Bass – (Largemouth/Smallmouth), Chain Pickerel or Yellow Perch
Prizes: $1000.00 total purse
First Prize $ 600.00 to heaviest fish caught of the three species
$ 200.00 each to the largest fish in the two other species listed
Registration Forms: At the Moodus Package Store or at the Moodus Sportsman’s Club February 7th 4-6pm
Our Mailing
Address Check or Money Order must be included with ALL applications
Moodus Sportsmen’s Club ALL applications must be postmarked by Monday,
Feb.. 2nd 2014
P O Box 11
Moodus, CT 06469 NO
REGISTRATIONS ACCEPTED AFTER 6 PM February 7th 2014
Locations: Lake Hayward East Haddam/Colchester
Bashan Lake East Haddam
Moodus Reservoir Moodus
(Upper & Lower Reservoirs)
Tournament Finish: Please return to the Club by 1:00 pm for final tally, lunch and awards.
Verification: The official weigh-in will be held at the Moodus Sportsman’s Club
at 1:10 pm sharp!
Verification: The official weigh-in will be held at the Moodus Sportsman’s Club
at 1:10 pm sharp!
Party Festivities: The Moodus Sportsman’s Club will host lunch right after
Regulations Fish must conform to all Connecticut DEEP fishing regulations for the area
CAUTION!!!!!!!!!!: The Moodus Sportsman’s Club does not represent that the ice is safe in all places on these lakes. All participants are responsible for their own personal safety. Pay attention to the channel in the Moodus Reservoir and the springs in Bashan Lake. Pay attention to ice thickness. With the lowering of water levels, certain areas may not be safe!
Send an e-mail to MSC site maintainer ~ moodussportsman@gmail.com and well send back a printable application form
Click here for a printable Tournament application form,
print it out, fill it in and send to address below.
Moodus Sportsmen's Club, P O Box 11; Moodus, CT 06469
ADDITIONAL FORMS CAN BE FOUND AT THE MOODUS PACKAGE STORE
NOTE: To get notice of next year’s ice Fishing Derby (or for future events) YOU MUST send us your e-mail address. We are trying to discontinue hard copy mailed notices after this year.
Even if the Tournament is not held this year (due to lack of ice) your email address will help us keep you posted on last minute conditions and for future notice of events.
New Work - Trinity Street / Bushnell at Night - Hartford
(c) 2014; Acrylic on wood panel; 14"x10";
First exhibited - Art League New Britain, Members' Juried Show, October 2014. Now in private collection.
New Work - Working Farmstead
Working Farmstead (c) 2014. Acrylic on wood panel. 9"x36"
Image is primarily one farmsteads with some elements taken from two other farmsteads First public exhibit was in October 2014, Rathbun Library, East Haddam, CT.
04 September 2014
three artists
Three artists, Jason deCaires Taylor, Sam Brown and Adrián Villar Rojas all, apparently, dis-similar in style, yet all unified with an awareness of the time within which we live, and our being - as a race of beings - on the cusp of Spirit Change.
Jason deCaires Taylor creates sculptures that most people will never get to see; and for those who are able to look at them over time, will never see the same sculpture twice; ...that is, the same sculpture (or, at times, a complicated installation) the same way each subsequent visit. Because it does, and they do
For the sculptor that is deCaires Taylor creates statuary and installations undersea; for he is post interested in sustaining his skills as a visual artist, while also "..providing the building blocks for sustaining a rapidly depleting coral reef environment. The subject matter can be whimsical [Alice from the Looking Glass astride a chess board] but often mundane - the office worker frozen in his office chair, rows of laborers standing forlorn]. Over time, the familiar will disappear as it becomes engulfed in new coral formations.
Sam Brown: My first exposure to Sam Brown's color saturated artwork - on canvas, stone, wood - surfing Facebook artist sites. By pleasant happenstance, perhaps. I "liked" his page, and began to see more. So far I have not been disappointed.
Others may disagree, but I see his current work's direction as akin to some visionary artists as one might find in little-known publications such as "Alchemistas / Beyond the Veil".
Based on what I've seen of his work - and recent work as uploaded on line - I it find exciting to sense how prolific he seems to be in his work pace. Yet not until I saw a mere handful of illustrations, and a calligraphy pieced at Freelanced.com, have I begun to appreciate the varied nature of the the Artist Brown sharing with us his visual delights. I look forward to seeing more of his work.
But why should I do all the talking? On Freelanced, one gets a glimpse at his sense of humor, and the skill at describing his inspirations with levity "Crazy about my Dogs....psyched about UFOs and Extraterrestrials, metaphysics, paradigm shifts and most every other mystery the Universe contains"
While at Blue Canvas ~ a posting site for artists ~ Sam Brown makes amply clear dedication and seriousness of his work, and that he can describe for himself his mission, as it were, for sharing that work...
"My early work consisted primarily of fantasy and science fiction themes which I still enjoy today. Over time, subjects such as philosophy, metaphysics, mysticism and surrealism began to influence the content of my paintings and led to my experience of, and my magnetism toward, the archetype of the spiral. A pattern seen throughout the Universe, the spiral has been utilized by many cultures over time and has several meanings associated with it. One being that of a spiritual journey... a spiral path which we all share. ".
You can find more of his work at his own website, Cerulean Sam at the artists' display site Blue Canvas as well as see samples of his magazine illustration and calligraphy (such as the cover art shown to the right in this column) at Frelanced.com - Sam Brown
Adrián Villar Rojas: Getting information about Villar Rojas was a challenge. Enigmatic, perhaps, yet not one easily forgotten - He represented Argentina in the 2011 Venice Biennial; he installed a monumental work in the Jardin Tuileries next to the Musée de Louvre in Paris, was among the first sculptor on exhibit at the The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery, {Kensington Gardens, London England] in September 2013 and major prestige galleries pay attention to his efforts.
Villar Rojas has become renowned for his large-scale sculptural works, predominantly made in clay and brick. Beached whales in the middle of a forest, dinosaurs in a death battle with one another; elephants straining under the weight of massive concrete architectural molding.
At the Serpentine Sacker gallery, in Autumn 2013, he began "...working with a team of collaborating builders, sculptors and engineers, ...tests the limits of clay to create an apparently fossilised world of ruins and ancient monuments that plays with the concept of time, history, modernity and the future. Overarching connections between his projects create a larger narrative, with themes and forms reappearing and reconfiguring themselves over time.
His earlier works "As with My Dead Family, saw him create a 28-metre [92 foot] -long sculpture of a whale stranded in a forest for the Biennial at the End of The World, each installation can seem as if is the last chapter of an unknown mythical saga.
At first glance, Rojas, who was born in the Argentinian city of Rosario in 1980, would not appear to fit the prototype of the aggressive artist: his influences lie in grunge music and comics, while his heroes both in art and reality tend to be broken figures, as he explains on his website [in Spanish].
More obliquely, a scan of Villar Rojas' Flickr pages Nerd Ciego- provide a peek at what he sees and the life surrounding the works he produces.
[from io9] "The artwork of Argentinian sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas evokes such themes as fantastic adventure in the otherwise normal material realm, the passage of time, and the last days of humanity. Perhaps his most striking series of sculptures depict giant dead sea leviathans beached far from any bodies of water."
RESOURCE SOURCES ~ [1] IMAGE: Wikipedia page on Jason deCaires Taylor ~ INFO: Daily Beast: Underwater Sculptures Are a Sight to Sea, April 2014 ; [2] IMAGE + INFO: Sam Brown work from 2004 ~ found at Blue Canvas; : ;[3] Adrián Villar Rojas IMAGE Sick Chirpsies article Making Sea Monsters Out Of Stone INFO: Serpentine Galleries - Today We Reboot the Planet; io9 Building Dead Sea Monsters in the Forest
For the sculptor that is deCaires Taylor creates statuary and installations undersea; for he is post interested in sustaining his skills as a visual artist, while also "..providing the building blocks for sustaining a rapidly depleting coral reef environment. The subject matter can be whimsical [Alice from the Looking Glass astride a chess board] but often mundane - the office worker frozen in his office chair, rows of laborers standing forlorn]. Over time, the familiar will disappear as it becomes engulfed in new coral formations.
Jason de Caires Taylor’s art is an example of generative human intervention in the ecosystem, showing what can be accomplished by individual imagination and collective effort. Taylor’s strategy of conserving reefs, opposes the “land as commodity” mentality of Capitalism. His creation of underwater sculpture parks attracts tourists away from natural reefs, allowing them to recover, and taps into tourism revenue...[from his own website] "...a sculptor who creates underwater living installations, offering viewers mysterious, ephemeral encounters and fleeting glimmers of another world where art develops from the effects of nature on the efforts of man. His site-specific, permanent works are designed to act as artificial reefs, attracting corals, increasing marine biomass and aggregating fish species, while crucially diverting tourists away from fragile natural reefs and thus providing space for natural rejuvenation."
Others may disagree, but I see his current work's direction as akin to some visionary artists as one might find in little-known publications such as "Alchemistas / Beyond the Veil".
Based on what I've seen of his work - and recent work as uploaded on line - I it find exciting to sense how prolific he seems to be in his work pace. Yet not until I saw a mere handful of illustrations, and a calligraphy pieced at Freelanced.com, have I begun to appreciate the varied nature of the the Artist Brown sharing with us his visual delights. I look forward to seeing more of his work.
But why should I do all the talking? On Freelanced, one gets a glimpse at his sense of humor, and the skill at describing his inspirations with levity "Crazy about my Dogs....psyched about UFOs and Extraterrestrials, metaphysics, paradigm shifts and most every other mystery the Universe contains"While at Blue Canvas ~ a posting site for artists ~ Sam Brown makes amply clear dedication and seriousness of his work, and that he can describe for himself his mission, as it were, for sharing that work...
"My early work consisted primarily of fantasy and science fiction themes which I still enjoy today. Over time, subjects such as philosophy, metaphysics, mysticism and surrealism began to influence the content of my paintings and led to my experience of, and my magnetism toward, the archetype of the spiral. A pattern seen throughout the Universe, the spiral has been utilized by many cultures over time and has several meanings associated with it. One being that of a spiritual journey... a spiral path which we all share. ".
You can find more of his work at his own website, Cerulean Sam at the artists' display site Blue Canvas as well as see samples of his magazine illustration and calligraphy (such as the cover art shown to the right in this column) at Frelanced.com - Sam Brown
Adrián Villar Rojas: Getting information about Villar Rojas was a challenge. Enigmatic, perhaps, yet not one easily forgotten - He represented Argentina in the 2011 Venice Biennial; he installed a monumental work in the Jardin Tuileries next to the Musée de Louvre in Paris, was among the first sculptor on exhibit at the The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery, {Kensington Gardens, London England] in September 2013 and major prestige galleries pay attention to his efforts.
Villar Rojas has become renowned for his large-scale sculptural works, predominantly made in clay and brick. Beached whales in the middle of a forest, dinosaurs in a death battle with one another; elephants straining under the weight of massive concrete architectural molding.
At the Serpentine Sacker gallery, in Autumn 2013, he began "...working with a team of collaborating builders, sculptors and engineers, ...tests the limits of clay to create an apparently fossilised world of ruins and ancient monuments that plays with the concept of time, history, modernity and the future. Overarching connections between his projects create a larger narrative, with themes and forms reappearing and reconfiguring themselves over time.
His earlier works "As with My Dead Family, saw him create a 28-metre [92 foot] -long sculpture of a whale stranded in a forest for the Biennial at the End of The World, each installation can seem as if is the last chapter of an unknown mythical saga.
At first glance, Rojas, who was born in the Argentinian city of Rosario in 1980, would not appear to fit the prototype of the aggressive artist: his influences lie in grunge music and comics, while his heroes both in art and reality tend to be broken figures, as he explains on his website [in Spanish].
More obliquely, a scan of Villar Rojas' Flickr pages Nerd Ciego- provide a peek at what he sees and the life surrounding the works he produces.
[from io9] "The artwork of Argentinian sculptor Adrián Villar Rojas evokes such themes as fantastic adventure in the otherwise normal material realm, the passage of time, and the last days of humanity. Perhaps his most striking series of sculptures depict giant dead sea leviathans beached far from any bodies of water."
RESOURCE SOURCES ~ [1] IMAGE: Wikipedia page on Jason deCaires Taylor ~ INFO: Daily Beast: Underwater Sculptures Are a Sight to Sea, April 2014 ; [2] IMAGE + INFO: Sam Brown work from 2004 ~ found at Blue Canvas; : ;[3] Adrián Villar Rojas IMAGE Sick Chirpsies article Making Sea Monsters Out Of Stone INFO: Serpentine Galleries - Today We Reboot the Planet; io9 Building Dead Sea Monsters in the Forest
03 September 2014
From my Dreams Journal ~
Just past the stream, the waters are filled with what, at first appear to be boulders, but on closer inspection, appear to be skeletal - not skeletons, mind you - more akin to icons and ceremonial carvings that one would see at a Mexican "Day of the Dead" ceremony. At this point, it isn't clear whether I am kayaking or wading in the water, but I distinctly recall thinking "I don't need to go there" and instead I disembark on the river bank not far from the tent.
I'm definitely aware that I am trespassing but pay this no mind.
Looking inside the tent, I am certain that the space is occupied. There is a hammock large enough to hold two people. I briefly jump up into the hammock, rock around briefly, and get right out. Other things in the tent include canvases, an easel and art supplies. It seems like someone was just here and left, for there is a tray of food not far from the hammock and personal items laying about the tent.
Then I wake up.
REFERENCES: David Smith Sculpture [ http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artwork/3955 ]; Day of the Dead Ceremonies [ http://www.inside-mexico.com/featuredead.htm ]; Jewelweed [ http://www.altnature.com/jewelweed.htm ] IMAGE SOURCES: David Smith Sculpture: Chicago Art Institute ; Day of the Dead Imagery: Emlii 22 Breathtaking Festivals Around The World ; Jewelweed: The Louisville Intercommunial Network for Education (the LINE) Nature Studies pages.
16 April 2014
Poem - Ode to the Lunar Eclipse
The Sun revolves around the Earth
So too does the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and the rest of the planets
Save Venus, who sets alongside,
man as a hornet for not herself being chosen the center Orb.
The Sun revolves around the Earth
Driven by the ginormous gravitational pull of human genius
Relatively unknown outside - in other universes
Which, in fact, do not exist if we but say they don't
Who knew our strength was so All Powerful?
A Strength so All Encompassing?
A Strength so Grandiose?
A Strength so itense the even G*D Himself
cannot resist the pull of human genius
And who are YOU to say otherwise?
The Sun revolves around the Earth
And for you - heathen unbeliever --
We have WAYS of dealing with you that make Abu Grahib seem calm
You can thank us hat we shall spare you.
Now grab hold of the reins of that tractor combine
Plow under those pale plants
We must bury them to help produce the next generation's oil
Only a Mellennia to go. No time to question this Wisdom now.
The Sun revolves around the Earth.
Save Venus, who sets alongside,
man as a hornet for not herself being chosen the center Orb.
The Sun revolves around the Earth
Driven by the ginormous gravitational pull of human genius
Relatively unknown outside - in other universes
Which, in fact, do not exist if we but say they don't
Who knew our strength was so All Powerful?
A Strength so All Encompassing?
A Strength so Grandiose?
A Strength so itense the even G*D Himself
cannot resist the pull of human genius
And who are YOU to say otherwise?
The Sun revolves around the Earth
And for you - heathen unbeliever --
We have WAYS of dealing with you that make Abu Grahib seem calm
You can thank us hat we shall spare you.
Now grab hold of the reins of that tractor combine
Plow under those pale plants
We must bury them to help produce the next generation's oil
Only a Mellennia to go. No time to question this Wisdom now.
The Sun revolves around the Earth.
image credit: Akira Fujii (Sky & Telescope)
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