first set

this is the first set of work being made here,

well my truck blew a hose, driving around today, i feel so personally commited to this truck its taken me to hell and back, , i think its a coolant hose, i had to idle alot and found a shop to have it repaired,.
one thing thats been going on alot is people buying trucks for a couple of hundred dallars and driving them down to central America for resale, i have had several people appoach me to buy my truck a 93 ford ranger, its a bit banged up no front bumper either, one kid was so presistant about buying my truck he tryed to convince me to sell me the truck,
" common man, i will offer you 500 for it, it worth it cone on, "
i told the kid i have comited to much time in on it just to give away , fuck it! i will be buryed with the truck,
last week it crossed the 200,000 mark,
when the kid was presistances i sorta played into it and sounded like i would sell, but wondered what kinda of truck i could get for 500, i rember grobbling to the kid, a teenage gansta hispanic type, maybe 15 or so, i rember saying "do i have to sell the truck" talking to him like it was a stick up, after i enjoyed the follery i say ahh, to hell with , get lost,
give up this truck, for 500?!
the gods would never forgive me! , for all the time i have commited to this craft and it to me, it needs and honnerable burrial not to be torn up to scraps,
on honnorable place to sit like an ol dog.

this is one section of the Egallery show going up next week, i am sick too with this fucking head cold drek gave me, i want to bust out this other section of work , but need to get drunk real bad to make decisions, and be done with it, having a cold don't help any!

late sept heat

well here is my garrage studio, its hot as hell out here,

last night i was painting with tar, for the first time, its an odd medium, but you get these great sepia tones outta it, , i made this one piece of these stacked chicken bones and started working the tar into it with these enamel paints into it, and i was taken back by the use of this(WOW), i could spin a whole lotta work off this just chiken bones and tar and wood glues burlap, ,

but it thought ,yea this has been done before, i know it has,( not thats the main idea behind this,. but what got me was the Africainness of it, very VooDoo like, could i a white man make work like this, and it be authinic? just the raw combunations of material reeks of this, there is nothing i could go but get sucked into the stylizations of it, , mainly make pictures or landscapes with people running around but made outta chicken bones, .
it got my head spinning about this wierd paradox or contradiction or label about do enharent elements become so culturely glued to something, that no one could use them other than the authors?
so
i went on this whole idea about "Wiggers", what it means , and all these examples of white men acting black , what some examples? a show idea not about black identy but more or less the idealizations from white men to black men, more in a pro stance, not as an satire?. cause it would be white men doing this?, in an almost copycat way, but it would reviel a process in which cultures borrow from each other.

the tar and chicken thing just looks heavy handed, and if i did a bunch of work around it , it would almost be best to just give it to a homeless man, and just watch what happens,
thats one thing i have seen alot around here is homeless crazy folks, they are like these ghoasts that just roam around and deal with the enviorment,

one of the challeges, is the artifact at hand and the maker , do the makes tight cast the object even if the object contratdicts its Author ?

post reta

well i was right all along!

after i got off the phone with my family, they had emptyed two ice chests had nothing but full blown buffet style BBQ for the last three days three times a day, and worryeid themselfs to death!, not the big problem is enduring the long drive back threw back to back trafic,
you knwo back in the old days, people just sat there in there cabin and endured God's wrath,

I have been having these odd flash backs, speeking of Galveston and the coast, where i grew up, well
there is this photo that is in one of my year books, highschool, where the senior class had senior skip day and went down to the beach and partyed! it was 1988, and the coaches and principal came out and had a beer with all the kids, or a "wine cooler" , it was fun,
well this photo is in our year book, everybody is on the beach poseing with beer up in the air and yelling along side the coaches and principals, , i happen to run across it a while back and thougth , my God
you could ever do this crap like this now, with all the d.a.r.e zero tolerance Madd nazis around, what the fuck has happen.?
it was a fun time,
well i was thinking i would love to go back to my highschool and make a slid of this photo and give a lecture on the way it was, ,
i have been having these mad flights of alex jones'est rampages on whats happen to our culture and responcible citzenery,
I all blame it on the Rapid maternalization of our America, head by two midsets, the preventive beurcratic liberals and the Christian famliy do-gooders, fueled by these new concepts of our insurance and safty,
to hell with all the external enemys of America we have to protect our freedoms form these new suberan socialists, who are creating an utopia of sorts, made from Safty and insurance, all enemys of Fate and character hardenings things thats made the counrty what it is,.
but don't tell the mothers that!
cheers

Reta

well it looks like a major hurcan is going to hit the coast over there, my home town being on of them

i was trying to convence Drek to go the house i grew up in and get some beer and hang out on the roof of the house with lawnchairs tied down to the roof and have speekers blasting away AC/DC and get all fucked up yelling "fuck you Reta Fuck you!!" .
i told my mother , who along with the rest of the family has left the area, they were pussys for just leaving, but the way they acted , after the katrina hurrrcane panic scare BS, you might as welll belive there is a nuclear bomb being set off , all the safty crap,. what ever happen to the good ol frontier spirt, ahhh
my mother was crying and all up set like the house is going to be gone when she gets back there, i told here, listin you live in suberia, its an old house, nothing is going to happen its flat land, its been very dry, , the only thing i would worry about is a tree falling over, .
but to no appeal, she worryies on, , "mom! thats why i have to go there an protct the place!"
"don't you dare do you wanna die!" etc etc

i think the last hurrcane , Alicia back in the early 80's, i think was alot of wind, it was quiet surreal , the eye went righ over the house, and boy it was windy, every piece of branch was blown clean form the trees it was a mess, i can imagine now, with all the trees there its gonna be a real mess to deal with, but the house is in good shape, and flooding is under control in my home town, cause of all the suburbianations of everything, , now my sisters house is one of those new two storie deals, ,
"its time to get product tested!"

it would be a good opruntity to go photo stuff alot, flooded beet up landscapes are my fav!

ill keep you informed over the whole deal, as it unfolds,.

one thing about Houston, when ever something happens like this the grocey stores get leveled, everybody buys everything and people are doubling up on eating! , like its gonna be there last meal till tomorrow after noon,. a total state of panic take over.
especially the women.

humm

well i was working in my studio or hot fucking garrage, drinking coffee, and its dawned on me what to do next?

to hell with the green lake biz, i might do some more pic in the zone but the real future in painting production lies in this new painting i came up with the ones with the towers, i think its a cary over from Black top set, but like urban streets seens, dealing with alot of SA uniques street layouts and f-up reused and over comercialised buildings here, so this is the first set, officaly, i belive,

me and drek , he was saying how he wants to make a video of Tonya shaving my back , kinda like the shaven hog , and put itn in an exihibition, i am making a piece to an homage of his drek sarkof deal the thing over in C-art something like a fence like with eaten corncobbs, he like the idea, but was taken for the moment i was ripping him of, i told him that i am Roman, an ansecteraly worshiper,

running around here in SA is fun this place is alike a large maze, way differnt that San Marc or Austin, tons of old houses here,

so in a couple of weeks a collection of work is goign to be put out here on the web, under the E-space at UTSA about twenty pieces,

hogs

ahh haa!
i have figured out how to post here in SA!, i am back on line now,
the only problem is i cann't drink here while i post, crap!

some one out there buy this wonderful art piece suitable for the kitchen , email for the detials, thanks

pest man

well, i was working out in my garrage and this pest guy came around

The land lord, got them here two old fat guys carrying these tanks with them spraying and shooting everything, i sat there with techo music blarring away in the background drinking coffee,
"how many houses are ya gonna shoot today?" i ask the guy, " oh about nine or so, but man today is tuff, we had a a bug convention last night and we are hurt'n today" oh yea i know the feeling, ,.,
no wait i don't i don't go to work ,. ., if i am hung over i just sleep late?
It sorta reminded me once when i was working at this house we did a make over and these guys came in to redo the floors, this one guy, man he was pathic some real old fat hairy beeared hippy type, like an ol' Austin hippy type, condemned to manual labor to match the excess years of partying and chillin ., me and dan started asking the guy these questions about how hard it was to to do this job ., while he was hauling in all the equipment, , he had this sorta whinny complanitive side and enjoyed the drama of his sufferings, i would have swore it must have been a comedy bit this guy was pulling on us as he explanied that even when he is off work he can tast the lacor thinner and his hands were nubb form years of hold the buffing machien,.,it went on and on,.., good God.,
ahh,
the two guys shooting the house for bugs, welli told them yea we have rats to they hang out on the roof, , "yeap "
if you have any dog food out they will wait and com and eat it all thay love dog food"
I have been hanging out with this one artist, K Klien, a sculptor real ruff kinda guy,. an grizzled old bronze castor, he was giving me and richie lectures on what its gonna take to make it as an artist,.
humm

saturday

well i am back down here in my old studio, , i started thinking

thinking that when this site was concieved, whats been going on,? well one thing was i got net acess out here in the studio, and i sorta tucked away and did the ebay deal and drank alot, but make a lot of work in the proces, spead up my painting capiblitys, but now that i am in SA, things are differnt i am not contemplative any more cause i am on the run, sorta doing things to survive, (mainly paintings) so will return with more stories when i get back into the hermit mood,

this painting was started last year finnaly got done with it this morning, its like "motel Hell" it started out as a landscapes but i like the red barrel on the "perve" painting and made a bunch of them , the other one is like a wood worker's shed project list, i though up another painting of the same idea but with a shed being wrapped by toilet paper, like ghosts, ,
there is also another painting in the shed set of all thes logs, (to be done later).
the photo is of some works on paper, and the yellow note is what Mr Budd left when his dog started finding chicken bones out in the yard,, its a neet note,.

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first week

"the chances of survile are slim so you have my sympathy" says the devil

some more work on paper, still spiting stuff out on ebay its like, machositic therapy, but its still fun, some really nice things too

view of my studio, see! i am in full whop some ass mode now!

this is a drawing on canvas, in progress for the Egallery show in oct, some more snakes!

some new flood painting i am working on, a carry over from the Brenham studio this sumer,

the only complete painting made so far, three dears and a goat,,, now finished

and my other studio "back to green Lake"

Well
the first week of real production is starting, things have been going ok, under dreks special cleanlyness training, he only wiged out once since i was here,
here is a contrast of our rooms

Can you guess which one is mine?,
Drek has these two dogs which he keeps in these two cages right under his desk,,. they have grown accustem to being in there and hang out in the cage alot, one is a puppy , and like to llick alot, something drek says his puppy suffers from complusive licking, onece or twice are ok, but his continual licking!,.

late at night we sit around, me and Mr Budd and drek and talk about whats next where is all this shit going?

with the invention of these three paintings i am trying to do what was a dismeal failure some 12 years ago, well painted women in a darken landscapes, but this time its going to be how they are painted, its the trick,
i am also starting on figures made from wire then made into papermachei- then on to compound and painted up, at least while i have this new space i can make something to put back in my house , in San Marc, i have invisioned these three to six figures of me with a machitee, like Roman warriors, i want to put the figures underneathe my house so if i happen to died sometime, then the figures will be there to haunt the place foreever!,

Some art lady came into mystudio here and said well i have see alll this kinda work before, this work isn't very challegeing, i said i know this its going back to my house, (e the storie above) , i went on to tell her , "well your an art junkie , constantly probing for the new, i am very old."

I also have a show coming up in this mini gallery , odd space so iam collecteing up work for it , like the grand fanility to the PFa zone and odd ball ideas i have had, kinda like the figures , need to do them to get them outta the way,

Mr Budd showed me this work, its the most hitious thing i have seen in a long time!

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???? on ebay now if anybody wants it real cheep too, get this and buy me a beer!