I am going to be off line for a couple of days, back to Brenham ( I am in Houston to get my teeth fixed doesn't look good) well one of these amazing discovers i found on the web was i some how located a home video of one of my favirote artists just before he died The Rev. Johnie Swearingen, taken by this young artist from Huntsville in the early 90 (Andy Emmons)., He also plays in a band Outhouse Moan. But needlesss to say this Video is a treasure. I have never seen or meet Swearingen, so this is something so completely rare and candid WOW , My God!, I wouldnt mind devoloping a small body of paintings based on these home movies. One thing about the history of my art, is i am a worshipper of certian movies, made paintings of them, i found out its called "fan art" etc , but i see it as morfing yourself with the over alll theame of the movie.
But to see this home video and see this old artist move around and talk , i can only imagine , what great paintings could be spun from this. the Chappel Hill set , the term came from all these stories i heard about this Artist who worked right over in the town Chappell Hill next to Brenham. I have always love this man's work there is something so odd about it in a visual way, Alot of the paintings in that set were sorta an homage to the idea of the the destored sublime, mainly sloppy, i even had a show with them down in Brazosport College 2002 Lake Jackson, Texas but to get this video, mann!! i am excited!
I rember one time i had this dream out in Floyd, where i was in this museum like the Menil and they had these sketchbooks/writing from Thorton Dial, the books were like locked in this glass case, i rember this museum curator type saying this is the way the artist wanted to display them only open to one page etc and then some waxy bulshit about art of manuscripts as art, i rember in the dream i saw these books more like the kabbal or a black Neccronomican(sp) and like "who is this art bitch telling me they even know what the fuck they got", its not supposed to be on"display" or to "engage the publics mind about what the fuck art is". This is a spirtual manual of sorts, of course in this dream i had the ghoast of Dial saying "get the book!" "use the book", !,. the over all impression about the dream is basicly, don't let the contempory art crowd debase something that is respectfully spirtual in nature. because of thier additute to compartmentalise and catigortise stuff , just their shear interests in it would confuse and corrupt the true orgin from which it came, cause most of them are suspicious about what sincerity and believablity is. (brainwashed market driven ambitions about "great art" has ruined most in this circle)
So stealing this treasure would be like stealing the shroud from the Romans ,,.,., filthy .,,,heathen. .,.,.,.infadales bastards!
