Sunday, April 30, 2000
Picoans
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My Picoan Group on Flickr
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A Pictogram of objects;
With which you are already sufficiently familiar,
But when presented to you in such & such a manner,
As those items are displayed here...
You will find that reason has no place to rest it's shoulders,
And that hairs-- Recently taken from the belly of a dog, having fallen from heaven,
Will make your danish & coffee feel like a carrousel spinning out of control, on a moon with no name.
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And then: Enlightenment may ensue, if your mind is suitably prepared.
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If an illustration doesn't have a story or narrative attached to it,
Or-- You think that you could produce a better one...!!!
Then; Please compose something suitable, and attach it as A Comment...!!!
If i Agree that it's something Special--
Then i'll move it up into The Proper Body of The Blog...!!!
[ Full Credit and possible prizes will be awarded...!!! ]
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Many of these photos are inexcusibly fuzzy...
And i'm not sure why...???
The 'Other' ones that came out pretty well were taken in the same way...
i think...???
So i'll just try to be 'more careful' for the next batch...
Even though i don't know what being 'more careful' actually means...???
Friday, April 28, 2000
The Greatest Painting In The World
- Abstract Expressionism ( The Essential Premise of Modern Thinking & Art ) taught us that for a painting to be 'real' it had to be considered a thing in itself, without the pretension of being 'of something'... Yet this tautology of semantics defies the central functionality of painting; and that is to show us something that we have never seen before, or to allow us to see something 'ordinary' in such a manner that the viewer 'sees it' for the first time, as the thing in itself, which is what the Abstract Expressionists wanted us to do all along.
- The Great War makes no pretensions of being anything more than it is. Many paintings attempt to engage the viewer by including numerous elements of symbolism to expand the texture & vocabulary of the painting, so that 'the narrative' that the painting is attempting to reveal, transcends the delimiters of the canvas & pigments. The Great War is instead; A Man & an Apple. Nothing more. As such: When the viewer attempts to 'decypher' this work, they are met with only what they are seeing, in a manner that is wholly unexpected, causing their minds & vision to expand proportionately, filling all available space in the cranium's.
- The Ultimate functionality of Painting, & by extension: The Source of It's Validity as a Tool of Wingless Angels, ( Humanimals ) Is to be something that compliments the emptiness of Man's hamster filled bladder on any given Chrstmsa morning.
- The Great War is this; & all their accompanying footnotes.
The Great War
The Theory of Art [ Formerly: Auntie Joan ]
and it seemed, at that time, that they'd all disappeared...
And then i finally remembered the name of The Gallery that she displayed her work at and found that...!
But-- It didn't list her as a member...!!!
But---i did find a link to another artist that was affiliated with The Art Stall,
and so i used her format, and simply inserted 'glenn' where 'Rawlings' had been...
Curiously; The correct address for for jglenn...
But Amazingly, it found the site anyway...!!!
( why is it that it never works that hard when i'm really looking for something...!!! )
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Her site is: Auntie Joan's Paintings
fig.1 Baskets of Flowers, Without a Mysterious Shadow...
She's a Fine Artist & Excellent Draftsperson...
But i just wish she's add a little more 'mystery' to her paintings...???
A mysterious shadow falling across the pots of flowers,
A ghostly face peering out from the filthy window of an old barn,
A limbless boy floating by on an innertube by the tugboats,
A firery plane falling out of the sky behind the church,
A Radically Political Button on the blouse of her grandchild(?),
A long extinct bug on the fruit,
One of the eggs falling off the table, with a cat just beneath it!
A Hobo's feet sticking out from under the old truck...!
Wouldn't that make them more 'Engaging...' ( ??? )
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Maybe she'll be famous someday anyways...!
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René Magritte; In order to more fundimentally understand & advance his own ability to contrive new paintings, composed a listing of all the ways that objects within a painting may interact with one another...
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His was a rather short list; So i've created my own listing of ways that objects may be transformed & made to confront the other objects & ideas within a confined illustrative area.
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Composition Suggestions
- Assign the Attributes of A to B
- Overlap Incongruent Elements
- Add a Mysterious/Ambiguous/Contradictory Element
- Hide an Element
- Discard a Necessary Element
- Overstate the Logical Conclusion
- Preproduce Reality / State the Obvious
- Stylize Texture
- Reverse Rolls
- Illustrate a Misconception
- Requantify Attributes
- Prove The Anti-Thesis
- Violate a Taboo with Innocence
- Force Innocence into The Roll of a Taboo
- Violate The Illustrations Parameters
- Demonstrate Commonalities
- Highlight Hidden Details
- Combine Opposites
- Rework 'x' Sloppily: Then Repair 'x'
- Mix Metaphores
- Force Things to Fit
- Redefine Axioms
- Refute Necessary Details
- Remove Some/All Supporting Structures
- Add Exteraneous Features
- SubDivide The Totality
- Add Redundancy
- Contradict the Message
- Refute Beauty
- Refute Ugliness
- Make Something Innocent; Terrifying
- Make Something Terrifying; Innocent
- Confuse People
- Redefine Functionality/Usage
- Amplify Silence
- Include a Trigger
- Fight Your Desire to Please The Viewer
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More Theory of Art:
What Goes On in A Picture...???
- Sleep / Sit / Stand / Lounge Around
- Watch Something / Stare at Viewer
- Engage in Ritual
- Pass Through The Threshhold
- Second Figure Juxtaposed
- Picking Up Something / Eating
- Comtemplating Something
- Twist / Contort
- Get Things All Wrong
- Master / Slave / Beast
- Elements: Cherub / Appliances / Clouds / Moon / Books / Papers / Shopping List / Small Utencils / Chair / Sofa / Table / Bed / Animals / Plants / Bowl / Window / Flies / Monsters / Food / Rocks / Ghost / Light / Doorway
- Doing x in a y Environment
- z's Perspective
- Struggling with x
- Interacting with a Machine / Confusion
- Laying in a Heap / Injured / Dead
- People as Things
Something Fun...!!! ( ??? ) [ ? ]
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Thursday, April 27, 2000
All of my Personalities in One Illustration!
Wednesday, April 26, 2000
Story: New Toy
Saturday, April 15, 2000
Anomalous Genitalia...???
What strikes me as curious regarding topics such as Magritte's "This is Not a Pipe" and Anomalous Genitalia; is that If their not what they seem to be, from the simple observations of a lay person--
Then what are they?
Are Anomalous Genitalia Nasty...???
If their not Genitalia, they they should be no more nasty than a pile of socks, or a bowl of jello spreak across an otherwise well vacuumed carpet.
How would one rate, according to age or maturity, the viewing privelges of Anomalous Genitalia... G, R or something entirely new...???
Friday, April 14, 2000
An Apocalyptic Anecdote: q

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An Apocalyptic Anecdote: o

An Apocalyptic Anecdote: n

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An Apocalyptic Anecdote: l

An Apocalyptic Anecdote: k

An Apocalyptic Anecdote: j

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An Apocalyptic Anecdote: h

An Apocalyptic Anecdote: g

An Apocalyptic Anecdote: f

An Apocalyptic Anecdote: e

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Wednesday, April 12, 2000
A Simple Story: The Misplaced Eraser
forgotten Love Interest
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It lay quietly as she stretched her fingers under it's intestines,
And then moved the liver to one side, looking under it...
When she pushed the lungs up, away from the gently beating heart
The beast let out a soft wuff sound...
"There they are!"
Aggie lifted out the keys...
Aggie looked at the dog suspicously...
"How did they get in there...?! -- Bad Dog!"
She smiled wryly as she closed the dog and set her on the floor.
Mrs. Tch' bae was a combination Chestnut shepard & Dachshund,
And creating numerous disquietingly mutant creatures that seemed reasonably content,
Although they had a few unusual medical problems, couldn't walk or pee normally
And often swallowed, or absorbed, objects that were left unattended.
"Now don't you go and annoy General Purken while i'm gone!"
General Purken lay curled up behind the davenport, quivering with a confused dread.
The General was prone to hallucinations and suffered many phobias.
Aggie took the federally designated speed limit from her ear purse and began to unwrap it.
The giant squid that her boyfriend had boughten her for her birthday wanted to play
And wouldn't take 'no' or 'maybe' or 'not now' for a suitable answer.
It wrapped it's manicured tenticles around Aggie and began to wrestle with her.
The neighbors fly, which seemed to hang around her dinette set; more & more,
Acted amused... if you're sensitive to the subtle and inscrutable emotions of aspergeric insects...?
She finally managed to dislodge it and trapped it in the silverware drawer.
Out on the porch...
The Refrigerator complained of it's recent repainting as she got in.
After she'd gotten the mirrors balanced to her liking she turned
The Refrigerator down the steps and began rolling into the future.
Her socks pulled themselves off her feet and curled up under the seat.
"Don't you two wander off now, This is going to be a short trip!"
She still couldn't recall what it was.
While she was looking through the tabloids on the way out of the store,
Outside; she saw a homeless woman sitting with her legs stretched out in front of her.
She handed her the boisterous rodent.
It quickly disappeared between the womans legs.
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i think that their wings and ambiguous [ androgenous ]
bodyform ( Thorax ) make them to easy to Visually misplace.
A Simple Story: UnEmplouddha
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"Can't you see them?"
"No."
"Dang."
Mellonhead pulled the last candy wrapper from his friend's anus and began to read the instructions again.
"It says that we should be wearing The Nowamb Flight Googles."
"They're in the Car." -- "In Daphki's blue cat."
"I'm hungery." Mentioned Kisner.
"Who feels like taking a piss while standing on a large untamed farm animal?"
"Then it's agreed."
"For now." Muttered Kisner.
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A Simple Story: The Hallucister
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It was a screechy sort of howl,
with a anechoically coupled dissonant acoustical inferior tonality.
"Can you feel the pain splitting away from your Id yet?"
"Uhggle Iaoumppa."
even though there wasn't a fuss going on at the time.
Somebody may have left the soapy coffee machine on in the garage.
Fish; dead since last thursday, still swam over the table where their bowl had been.
They missed the tunnel of light,
and would have to wait until the cat caught something under the house.
The howling suddenly stopped, and everyone began to cry.
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But before watercolouring
Which is before inking.

A Simple Story: Bmail
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It had been warned; repeatedly, that it was an androgenous sink,
And didn't need to cover it's ample genitals; that only it was aware of.
The Priest that lived behind The Carlson's garage tried reasoning with it,
But The Gruelians interceeded and fought with The Simple Utencils
For a greater share of the desk light.
Cablegirl; The one with an IQ of 16.9 { Sehletian Scale )
Raised herself over The Trambisiel's Boundry of Tepidity.
A laughtrack jumped unexpectedly, and the truth became obvious.
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A Simple Story: Khe's Symbolicrate Foretired Skin
Bleakmonst's Attempted Revenge
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"uhg." The chattel acknowledged.
"I was thinking of something clever this morning..."
"Smoking..."
"This is for feminists..."
"Smoking doesn't make you Equal with Men,
It makes you as Stupid as Men."
"What do you think?"
The human like creature that she'd bought for $12, didn't say anything.
It apparently had a very low natural intelligence
and was useless for help when watching Jeopardy
or even Wheel of Fortune.
It didn't even seem particularly interested in
the outfits that Vanna White was featuring.
that it's name was [ Something like ] Furnisetat'n,
But that was entirely inappropriate for her, or her frequent guests.
It did not seem to understand that she was calling it Henry.
It merely grunted occasionally, whether she was addressing it, or not.
She thought that this consituted a genuinely harmonious rapport.
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A Simple Story: xvi
A Simple Story: UnGawdly Shimouippies
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A Trillion [ British Quintillion ( ??? ) ] years ago;
There lived a humanimal of the childbearing sex,
{ That did not look particularly female, especially near the swimsuit area(s }
That Married an electrically ecstatic* 'Willleap' named: Crueleven.
Tocks sought after the barn from The L Region,
And recalled that a Double X Strand of DNA*
Had been swallowed by a Calico/Carribbe'an Sheep,
Which; after regurgitating it,
It's shape on the newly shampooed carpeting,
Resembled A Lepton* missing from The Island of Mousordid.
There was a war there; then--
But only the people that were torn 'Asunder'-- took it seriously.
The [ wife ] was one of these.
Her Capitalistic* [ Vulva ] became the obsession of
A Mohammadean* WereWolf
( Whose name was forgotten )
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It's current wereabouts is uncertain.
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* This doesn't mean now, what it meant then.
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meant something like 'Vanilla'.
Story: The Wisdom of Fish # 2
For a time -- When i was somewhat younger,
[ Particularly onto to Faces; in either case...! ]
But i became morbidly nauseated by one,
and was sexual aroused by the other...
in films, highly enjoyable...???
That won't listen to The French Union of Mustard Sculptors,
Had effected The Treasuries in Idaho...
Those dazed women that sit all afternoon, irationally scribbling--
Gave Asperger's The Mystery of Lies
Bade a Mohammedean TinkyWinky a 'Heart Blast' of Fairies
which sent The Jury off the trial.
Left everyone in the hydortherapy unit feeling as if their
Union of instantaneous witches was
Somehow forgotten.
A Tale of Woe : Crowning Religeon
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The more out-of-doors that she could get the happier she was,
Until she finally found that there was a limit to the amount of out-of-doors there could be.
"Who would have thought..." She mused.
"That there could be a quantifible limit to Out-of-doorness..."
But then; of course, it was too late.
The helicopters began flying over with the unwell tardigrades.
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Story: An Afternoon @ Janette's
of my drawings, incorporates
menstrual themes...???
i have no idea ( ??? ) what this means...???
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Blood is such a curious symbol / archetype
though--- Everyone is 'into' it--
And Carnivores...
The Piano Pushcarts on Avenue: 'Narcotic Skinny Snatches',
The Lost [ Controversational ( sic ) ] Harlem Abortions
That have come to mean; in certain circles--
Rotten Genius Awards.
are suddenly filling with
unfriendly doodles.
Story: Friendly ( ? ) Octopus
that the octopus; in this Illustration,
is probably poisonous...
Hometown Kingdom and Obtainable Snow
By a wandering Water Cowboy from Colorado.
And had recently became acquainted with
Drunken Reincarnated Negroes
By way of The Cliff Protests --
That were held that year in skyscrapers, by the sea.
Came together in a borough, far away from the 'alive' footwear,
At a place called; The Muddy Crossbones.
And names had parties attached to
Their thin, frayed & tipless
Seedless Genitalia.
Story: Spurt(s)
and it also contains those
wonderful spurts of blood
that suggests,
along with the hanging chair,
that another disreputable soul
will soon be singing the praises of satan
in the eternal dark paradise
of logic & forbidden knowledge.

While plunging from their totally wild, sunny dreams;
With hot green tongues,
In a country retirement of loose fashion requirements,
Brought into a mindset of Taoistic recordings of
Tabacco Filled Fetus'...
Riding on an even looser highway of Blue Academics
That are joined at the ears to find
A sockless Pederast whose skin is tatooed with
All the latest holocaust anecdotes
That have filtered in from
The Gravity Empire.
Found a deaf hometown in boxes of dandruff,
Eluding to the strange amnesia of rocks,
Shuddering in a firetrap; East of Chinatown.
Each of the hours closed with a discernable---
'Clank!'
Story: Hanging Chair Murders / Lucy
These were originally a Chrstmsa WeeBook
Story: Not Sad... ( ! )
That follow the roadside horrors that loom from
Overturned armies of Vampire Wannabe's.
Story: Groceries
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To a velvety creaminess of yellow, mashed potatoes.