Another fun-foodie-light design with Dad, the master of electricity (gong).
I love the way the cords flow out from the main colander like noodles...
Monday, December 12, 2011
Cheese Grater Pendant Lights and Blue Cheese Painting
My Dad, master of electricity (gong) , and I had fun playing and making these for over the serving bar.
The True Blue cheese picture in the background came around to join in on the fun...
Friday, December 9, 2011
Friday, November 11, 2011
A favorite hang and home of The Spicy Jesus
One of my favorite San Francisco, USA places (and there are many!)
We stop here after a pilgrimage to the Muir Woods. The food is fine, but the visuals are YUMMY!
...though I believe he is actually smiling (that's just what I see...)
Which brings up a point:
Why is Jesus always depicted so somber?
He was/is a King of Love! - which sounds pretty happy to me.
(maybe he was missing a top incisor or something)
I might just have to make a portrait of him smiling.
I'm actually working on a mixed media portrait now of Billy Shakes (ie, William Shakespeare) smiling, with flowers in his hair and ribbons of prose... a little more accurate than the one portrait we're all accustomed to. He's looking more like the personality that wrote Much Ado, 12th, Midsummers etc.
Craig says that he is looking quite light of foot.
Interesting... it is the feminine nature that knows such passions...
and didn't Gwenith don a beard to hide herself from the bard in Shakespeare In Love...
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Penelope Bluenose returns to Crazee Burger
Wolfgang invited Penelope Bluenose to return to Crazee Burger, but this time to their new location in Old Town.
... I wonder what her favorite burger would be.
Perhaps the ostrich with lemon chive cream sauce,
a pinot grigio
on the rocks
fries
with a ribbon of smokey ketchup
she'd keep her pinky finger up
whilst dining
,
naturally
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Invention - The Eye Of The Beholder Paintings (part 2) - Word Art
The technique highlights how the
viewer of a painting or piece of visual art is also the artist of
the piece. Like when one is reading – the visual world of the reader is ignited
and guided by the author, but the ultimate story comes alive, uniquely, within
each reader. Art too, though the physical art piece is right in front of the
viewer, comes alive, uniquely, within each viewer --- each
reader/viewer interprets stimuli through their own unique dictionary of
terms, judgments and reactions. I have started the series by touching on basic
painting subject matter i.e. portrait, still life, landscape, cityscape,
seascape etc. and am moving through artistic movements, specific famous
paintings, iconic painters, expanding into iconic images and characters
-- from any realm, historical period and events. All the while
using less and less words within the painting.
Ultimately, demonstrating how a word or name is defined within the
viewer themselves. And that the mind can become so quick to define
a visual stimuli (aka: make an assumption) that the viewer no longer takes the
time to actually “see” and “process” or experience what is actually,
physically in front of them. The mind is painting a whole
scene within the viewer that is full of emotion, feeling and evoking an
experience that actually has little to do with the actual moment. The viewer is
just standing in front of a painted white canvas hanging on a wall...
A canvas that has a few marks of ink
on it...
Marks of ink that happen to be in
shapes of what our culture has all agreed upon: to stand for a
sound...
Symbols our mind’s have recognized
when put together make, what we define, as a word...
These words stand for defined
concepts (and when spoken, make familiar sounds or when read, silently or aloud,
trigger a picture/experience within the mind and ultimately within the body of
the individual).
Depending on the subject matter of
the series painting, the trigger can be quite evident.
This awareness is possible for the
viewer, because the viewer can see that the canvases in front of them offers
them so very little and yet the viewer is experiencing something quite
profound.
Ultimately, through the end section
of the series, the viewer is offered the opportunity to realize that they
are the actual artist of all of the paintings they've seen, the realization
can be quite expansive... often lighting smiles and laughter. Quite
beautiful.
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