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Well i am just sizing up the show here, and my truck is acting funny, didn't start yesterday, right off the bat,
Its been real fun talking to folks up on campus about life and what not, about where all this crap goes, i think i am figureing out what the fuck , i have been doing over the last ten years , in conversations with these people, like the last 15 years was a dream,

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check this out one of chickens work got on this site, a Hagee piece
buddies bemusing

In a brief summery,
as i figure out what i have been up too, since 95 til 05
well it goes like this
one is the need to test and make your self better, but being controling and machistic or myrter like, i engrained myself in this absurdist idea to live out this jesture , this being simpley put you live offf of what you make, the catch is nobody wants it, (headless chickens dancing in there own vomit)
so what do you do, as a self inflicted comdey jesture, to make it happen, when it isn't sucessful,
make more comedy who says its ever gonna stop here, that will lead the way!
why not ,fuck you, get a job!,

its all the preachy self improvements psyche stuff gone to the extreme but with "art" training, in particular chicken paintings, and fetish paintings in the introverted crafter's zone
the idea if i only do this ? i will be better, or like more enlighted,
well all this does create history of stuff
and example of it is all the Halloween art on this site, and the ebay syndrome,
i have been coasting off of obsessions, in the bad art zone basicly but as role playing, its byproduct is artworks and sets

so being here i am sorta putting together what it was i was doing , and its not with out populartiy alot of other artist have been doing it too, i think my main paper here is going to be something to do with authorship authicticicy and the imagination( i know it sounds broad but , i have spicific artifacts and contempory additudes to back it up(90's) , mainly spining off the slacker/bad-art/urban-outsider zone from which i came Ausitin/San Marcos( an work on my spelling!

Steven Chandler, artist Athens GA, fellow ebay artist ,
I started emailing this guy , oh about a year ago, he is a musician and started posting art work on Ebay, they mainly started out as inspired drawings from Bill Traylor, then he mixed red mud in with them, and he started selling alot ,( we also look out for art frauds like the Traylor knock offs witch get posted from time to time, Traylors work ,if authincated could go over 10,000, so being on ebay could it be possible to find a traylor stored in an old book? but then there are the blanted scams who cann't even copy the guy right, . Steven told me once that in his lots before the redmud stuff he would say point blank this is not traylor!! and make pictures with with items that were dated in this time, (Traylor made work in the 30's) and he still had irrate art people emailing him )
i have been watching his sucess on ebay for a while ,
one of the appeals to the ebay folk section is its a close nite set with a typical idea of what is folk art, mainly the southern gernra, and crafters, but you get alot of odd stuff. people post colection and then you have the self-rep artists, who are outsider-folk-frindge-nieve/ or just borred or desperate, Steven is a smart guy, and he was amazed and the sucess his work was getting, and watching it grow, plus he is a collector, we have that in common and we watch the folk art section,
plus there is the commonality of selling which is adventuresume itself
one cautionary note to his sucess was,
this last fall he had a guy start buying everything he posted, ran the prices way up, but wouldn't pay or did pay all at onces, in parts, it can be maddening cause if the top guy defaults and he has like couple of other counter bidders on the lot your stuck with contacting them, it can be suspious and plus your left with all the ebay fees on high stuff , that you didn't pay for, and ebay does get your money threw a credit card,
but this wacko strung Steven along for a couple of months, it can be hard to discrimante between a good customer and some one who is irresponcible. You want to give them the benifit of doupt, i think the guy just dispeared left steven cold oweing him money, but the results of it your abit wiser,
in the process of th ordeal, when this guy was bidding on everything another art preditor saw the sucess he was having on ebay and wanted to set Steven up in a big time show in NYNY, whaoo
this guy who bought a couple of pieces wanted the artist to send something like 60 pieces for a big show with PR, TV interviews and everything was sold was promissed, of cource, and there was a contract, sounds fishy...
you bet,
i got moment ot moment or emails about how the deal was bult up and then played out, it looked beliveable (in the begining) but, sounded too good to be true,
from what i figured it was an furniture/antique imported dealer with a shop maybe or a sales man trying to land shows for a gallery,& and dealing on the side, .
but Steven dropped the whole deal , he saved himself a massive headache,

he has got an amazing imagination and spins work around his southern past,mythic, almost abstract

here is one of his auction lots,stll running

Posted by chickengeorge at March 18, 2006 1:47 PM