this is the first declaration of the Big Bend area campain to find a studio, first target is going to be Van Horn, i have some leads.
I have been on two adventures out there one in 1999-2000 in Redford the other 2002 in Marathon,. so i suppose its time to get back out there and see what stones i can over turn, i probaly bet i will be outta here march apr, which means the site will be more difficult to maintain. but who know it seems the net is everywhere these days
i think i am going to have a cheep going away party/ yard art sale some time in the spring. I like going out there it has a begining and an end to it and its a bit ruff in living, so to speek, but some how i manage on sales and nick nack,. its realy for the fun of it all.I was telling Justin this, he is from Uvalde, about just saying fuck it and go you will figure it out along the way. one of the best feelings i have every had in my life was painting in James ol barn out back getting all drunk listening to Fatboyslim late at night, the weather real ruff windy! hot too. you get this feeling your like this character in a movie, it must be the old west feelings, like the good the bad and the ugly, i love that movie, something simple and clean about the sands bright sun and dry climate.
RH King Evans Gallery 2002
View image Marathon building next to Evans Gallery, chickenheads
View image Marathon Evans gallery show 2002 Aug
one of the anitdotes i told justin about the whole Redford thing was me and Serge had this eastcoast artist type come out and try and show us up, it was fun he had this additude from the begining, " hey what are you guys doing out here, you think your important, that this is art! chicken paintings and angstridden exprssionistic crap!" i rember telling him well of cource no one care , who cars oat all , but hey lets pretent to be great its the desart, this place is loaded with wackos and profit type,. . he agreed and wanted to loosen up a bit on his work, he was a realist painter type and wanted to get wild and just make stuff up with out looking at it, he couldn't figure that out, but he knew looking at us, we looked at nothing, and made everything up,. oh the gaul!
View image this is the floor of my studio in Redford,Tx, 1999,
thats one thing i like out there, you some how feel nothing else matters and you can live in this private art world , , mine is this ol moses type Biblical and throwing lighting from my hands kinda like the old master fromthe star wars movies, , hell you make a painting, one should believe its a feat of something right, like super heros ,
i would say its not acting as a super hero, but actualy comming up with a challege to be one, in skill, and imagination, the (game challege) to do that, , cause as soon as you can imgine a cliff, then you can picture flight,.
View image Me and the chickenhead pyrmid in Marathon 2002 that old barn
