Reality has finally caught up with the artist.
It grabbed him by the feet, threw him to the ground
and then kicked him a couple of times in the gut for
good measure.
That'll teach him.
Date:
Exhibit #
Title:
March
30, 2004
040330 The
Mummy Family
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2004, 15" x 12", ink on paper
I know what you guys are doing.
You always talk behind my back about how paranoid
I am.
Date:
Exhibit #
Title:
March
28, 2004
040328 Void
Move of Sophistication
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2004, 4' x 5.5' , acrylic on canvas
On Art, Craftsmanship
and Design
The artist wants to communicate and may use craftsmanship
and/or design as tools to achieve that. From the craftsman's
point of view, the (art) concept is also only a tool and
so is design. And the designer may integrate a (art) concept
but certainly craftsmanship for his or her work.
Art and craftsmanship used to be one and the same.
With "Mannerism" the craftsman started to introduce personal
elements into their craft. Ever since the importance of
craftsmanship in the artistic process has declined and pure
concept art has now been around and dominant for almost
a hundred years.
The craftsman can very well be an artist.
Stereotypes from all corners, more often then not from the
craftsman himself, want to rigorously separate honest skill
and hard work from the frivolous, elitist "fake" art showbiz.
The craftsman's main concern is the pleasure of the work
process and pride in perfection. The artists main concern
is communicating.
Design is creating within certain parameters. Once those
parameters are being provided by somebody else, we have
design and not art. If the parameters are you own, you are
applying your design skills to your art and therefore make
it more accessible to your audience.
Date:
Exhibit #
Title:
March
24, 2004
040324 SIH
Seriously Now Art Exhibit in Pinto Art Gallery
I started to work simultaneously on several apparently
unconnected ideas.
The more I work on each, the more they start to merge
and overlap without me actually trying.
That can only mean two things: either I am very consistent
in what I am doing or I masturbate too much.
Date:
Exhibit #
Title:
March
13, 2004
040313 Blue
Border
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2004, 3' x 4', acrylic on canvas
Sometimes I wish I could fuck as well and as long
as I can play billiard.
Date:
Exhibit #
Title:
March
9, 2004
040309 A
Bohemian fashion enhancement
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No I am not yet dead.
I am back in Hong Kong on Lamma Island and between
all the relaxing, running up and down hills and beer
drinking I lost every creative inspiration.
This is the only photograph I have been taking in
a week.
I know it's not a great photograph but at least something.
Since I am hanging out with the classy kind I felt
I have to enhance my bohemian appearance.
What do you think?
Does it work?
And now I have to go back to some serious beer drinking.
It's Standard Chartered Night at the Island Bar. Every
beer just 20 bucks as long as you pay with a Standard
Chartered 20 dollar bill, yipeeeehh.
Date:
Exhibit #
Title:
March
2, 2004
040302 The
Shy Stick Insect Hunter is a Surfer Dude Now
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The Shy Stick Insect Hunter nearly got killed in
a 40 foot wash out.
That's how they found the SSIH.
All those submarines must have distracted him and
he beached himself.
Life is beautiful if you always have an alternative
ready.
