G

G
ink on card, digitally edited
4 x 9 "
2012

DON - PRONE

Don - prone
ink on newsprint
32 x 24 "

Mother

Mother
charcoal/ink, acrylic on paper
15 x 30 "
2011

Mother [on drywall]

Mother [comparison: equal composition]

I'm not sure it's not better composed by including the wall.  [Uh-oh, a double negative, that's just terrible grammar.  It's as if I didn't have a father who was a stickler for proper English.]

I'll just Amanda Ross-Ho-it.  Should be simple: cut out wall, display.  I can even disregard framing.  A little Spackle and the wall will be good as new. 

ASSUAGING ANXIETY 1

Assuaging Anxiety 1

17x23"

ink, acrylic on colored paper  

May First Friday 2011

 

  

As the Arts Incubator withers away, I look to efflorescence, just months ago.  I’m trying to do so many things to prepare; I'm getting nowhere fast.  As my mind plans, curates, structures the next 14 chess moves, anxious whirlpools threaten.  On replay, I envision Scratchy's skeleton ripped out of his body: Itchy laughs, Scratchy dies.  It's a most uncomfortable kind of tension, a paradox of sensation: my outer body stationary and my marrow sprinting forward.  I often have this psuedo-agoraphobia before social events, which I don't really understand.  If I truly believe that painting can heal, then I should let it do so. 

So this was me, in the afternoon, sublimating my anxiety before my first First Friday.  

DON SITTING [DETAIL]

figure study, Don sitting [detail]
pen, ink wash on paper