I really don’t know what I felt like yesterday, sorta a lot of feelings - and being realistic wasn’t one of them.
I don’t know if this painting is done or now - probably not, but I’m putting it up anyway - because I had a lot of feelings that were going right into the work. I had thoughts I can’t really capture now - but ideas come to while painting - Anyway - here’s another “Into The Blue” painting - but there’s something else going on - perhaps a sophistication I’m going after, represented by the right side of the painting:
I sketched this view of the bar at a restaurant in Williamsburg, Brooklyn today. As a matter of fact, I was reminded of something said to me a long time ago - in 1987, that is I could paint the East Village, the way I was than, and bring something spiritual and uplifting about it - it would be fantastic.
Well, I don’t think I was able to do much then, but there days - I feel I can go as far with anything I’m doing, artistically, as I want to go.
I know this sketch is dark, but if you look at it for a minute - you’ll see how much I of myself I put into it - I hope it shows.
I dropped off one of my paintings to Heart and Soul Pilates for the show I’ll be in next weekend and ended up spending the whole afternoon and much of the evening there having an early dinner, sketching and going to two openings. Here were the openings I went to.
Here’s a video of part of what’s going on in Williamsburg:
What was notable was the “Space” performance at MonkeyTown - it was different than anything I was expecting - in fact, I kind of liked the mixture of a “surround” video (4 screens), the futons that you can relax on, the food that’s served while your watching and the performance art that is supposed to play in with the the movie clips.
The only problem - most of the time, the performances didn’t really interplay with the movies all that well and I felt many good opportunities were missed by all the performers and the movies.
