Yesterday I finished my painting, “Mossy Trees,” that I started last week in Castle Rock park.
I spiced it up with an eyeball in one of the trees. I was thinking a little of Magritte, the way he’d slip fantastic details into so many of his more-or-less realistic paintings. Also it’s a way of making manifest the hylozoic notion that the trees are conscious.
And I put another eyeball in a part of a trunk that’s painted on the canvas edge. I’m into painting all around the edges, I like the effect, and it means you don’t have to worry about framing. The canvas becomes a sculptural object in itself.
Today’s egoboo: Matt Groening reads my books! I saw this in a Wired article about the return of Futurama. (Thanks to Paul DiFilippo for the heads-up.)
This explains why I felt such a shock of recognition when I saw one of the early Futurama episodes, and the robots were getting stoned and selling replacement human organs out of back alleys. That’s totally the world of my Ware series: Software, Wetware, Freeware, Realware. By the way, I’m making slow progress on getting the Wares back into print—more on this in a couple of months.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:12 pm
hey Tami walked Moss 2day – so the EYE in the SKY man is watching us all & trying 2 ensure us that it is that way. I read & think what i should call my little robot Teddy bear – Rantz Muhammed?
what next…
the big bad woof.
November 27th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
nice pictures as usual – yu get them in a color-supplement for a big mag.
i called the american embassy about all this & yu know what i called them?
Helsinki Room Service 22nd Sept 33 years ago
November 28th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Go! look at the *luminous green (glasswork) ‘tree-tentacle timestructures’*
now co-manifesting from outa (Arneson’s homebase) Benicia:
http://www.artsbenicia.org/Looking%20Glass/LG07_Christopherson.htm
Very very rudy.
Other (glass) works include the water-drop-forms of “Kana Tanaka”
(main url of AB is http://www.artsbenicia.org/ and then click “Current Exhibit”). Showing there until 16december2007.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:29 am
Cool on getting the Ware series back into print. I snagged a copy of “Freeware” for myslelf a few years back when I saw one on a bookstore shelf, but I read all the others from the Library shelves.
I keep telling people that they need to read that series, but they really should start at the beginning to truly enjoy them all.
December 5th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
was thinking about that dark time of year in the Northern Hemisphere what do they call it Zappadan – also on Tralfamadore, Trout explained before the shift in the Zen light blue Alice sky. Joyce arrived witha Barnabus & we got on the board of dicktatorz
take care & mind the bears
G
September 12th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
I feel like Spaceland would make an awesome futurama episode…
cheers!