Secondary Works of Inferior Quality
NOT BAD STUFF, JUST NOT MY BEST STUFF
Let's be honest here. ALL museums have works that fit this description. There is a time and place for everything. With brick and mortar museums, that place is in the stacks, out of sight. On the web, where space is infinite, they have their own little hangout, here. I hope you enjoy them.
Crazy Doodles with Ram
The oil derrick at lower right looks like a cow. 20x30
Stulia Shalabuensis
Both words are dream words, "stulia" meaning "man growing out of a tree". He is looking at Lynn Wyatt, one of the world's most beautiful and best dressed women, standing on a summer squash whose flowers contain dancing space aliens.. 24x36
I Just Want to Go to Sleep
Painted in one sitting on 4/26/2002.
Three Pots and a Pan
The range top has turned into a river flowing between the cookware. Note the trees on pan ridge. There is a tempest in the teapot. 19x24
4 Little Weirdos
21 x 28 The real dream sequence is the Hexagons. I dreamt of hexagons that were greatly elongated horizontally, practically into rods, and then stacked in threes. The work is on poster board, because it was painted around the turn of the century, before I started using canvas, unfortunately undated. It even got wet when the sunroom roof sprung a leak. I did not post it for years because I thought it was moronic and juvenile, but I am slowly changing my mind.
Brokeback Yam
Yams will break if you drop them.
In honor of Elizabeth Aquino and her beautiful Blog, Dec 2008, where she comments on this painting and reports the following:
I knew the women were on the edge of the end of middle age or already a few years into whatever comes after middle age. I knew this by the sound of their voices and later, when I looked, I was right. But I digress because here's the conversation I heard:
Lady #1: "I'm so sorry that we didn't make dinner beforehand."
Lady #2: "Oh, don't worry."
Lady #1: "No, I feel bad. Why don't you come over afterward for a yam?"
Lady #1 (again): "I had half a yam this afternoon but have the other half leftover. You can have the rest.
Lady #3: I do love a yam.
Wipeout
11x14, June 2007.
Based on the mass of this Yam, I think the wave is going to get wiped out.
Yam on Board
on a piece of wood 11 x 14 Feb 2016
This is the original inspiration (if you can call it that) for ODoVB.
POLKA DOTS
Some visual art has its own logic which cannot be described in words 18x24
The Perfectly Nice Yam
There is nothing wrong with this little painting. My problem in life has been coming up with a title for it. I tried Nice, Decent, Fine, Regular, Normal, OK, Happy, and High Quality before settling on this. It is small (12x16), from 2015 and I don't remember the details. I also completely forgot about it for 7 years. It's not framed, it's not even on a stretched canvas, just a piece of canvas paper. And I can't think of anything to say about the background.
