bug pieces

this is this set of work about collecting bugs, from the drains of a swimming pool. made from tissue and polyurthain and black paint

the back of chicken george

baacck of chicken george

sittin here figureing things out with JARR my comrade in arms This is heavy metal, fleating and direct,

Oh yeaaa
i owe one to the voice of God, over here for making a fool out of me in the net, may the follys of actors stage yeild another come back.,

and i give thanks for my new found special helper

for taking these photos.
this is the kinda help i need,,,,,

this date the 28 marks the first time i was out in Redford Texas too,
its a powerful date,.

so
whats going n in this shit
i am editing out the e show, about gambling and art, primed and ready ,
basicly ready to put this thing together in a fation that works
bugs
jewels and risks
and the devils lot to make you of the world
,
God damn i am converting to Roltian principals
,

maybe i am settinging into character over bad drugs that men all to well,
hahahah heheheh

one thing i got hold of was Rolft's movies

this guy is incrediable!
nothing has exist like this preacher i have ever heard,
i had been listening to this guy for years,and wondering , or wanting to put a face to this man, and thanks to ebay i found it, a mass collection of videos about him, this is a Texas that isn't around anymore.,
i remember oh
about a decade ago i was taken by the Rolof idea, i wonder why, there is something about this guy , that goes beyond time, or at least make culture known, ,
and believe me in this time, things are evaporating fast in America,
so a man like him has an appeal,
puratanic
something about the ground,

more writting! natural lite poetry

painting and making dinner are the same

in regards to the facts that you don't keep the meal
more than you remember making it.
Alot of it is this.
simply put,
the Spirit world is stronger than any ambitions for fame or $
cause its this world that tells you whats next art stradgies
is false in regards to the fact no one will remember
that its of a meal
more than a table setting

the making of a meal is next to the acts of painting
one imgines the acts and starts to serve it

A chief won't indulge in his own masterbalte
visions of food as some one will eat.
So

you have to keep in mind

that
cooking is about believeand it can be compermised
by cooking for respect and $
more respect than anything
the governis of respect
to know this is ambition and the spirit reflects it is of the masses

The masses say one is none but the one is of the mass dead

do they listen

Posted by chickengeorge at 11:00 PM

yeap, things are back in action

i am configuring what lye a head for chicken, i have a gripping suspision its going to be found in the land of the Rising sun,

the show up now needs to be edited

i am cutting back some projects out of the e show, and alot pulling the larg cheeto deal but alas going back to work with it,

humm what else

i have this last exit set rolling along, this painting above is an example of it,

humm how about the babe deptment, humm all is going well, wink wink

show revised

photo of Brian Jobe, still at work in SA-town

Well ths show is up but it needs some work still

there is some editing that needs to take place over the deal it looks good but i am becoming stupided by the chemicals it took to comeplete it,
hummm
more to come

everything is going to cool off here this weekend and i can catch up on some shit here on the site, the ruralst show is being formed, plus, whats wropng with the show i made called

scratch-off-pondstore-profits-found in the bottem of a swiming pool drain

Posted by chickengeorge at 10:42 PM

the final night

this another piece that will go along with the cheetos project,
all efforts were thrown ito compleating this set of work over the last five days,.
the show is to be assembled tonight etc,
there are about four sets, in the deal, photos of the show this week,

"its funny i was just looking at this photo on the net, and noticed, a match head missing, when just last night, i was staring at this thing trying to find some i missed"

So also

the ruralist show is complete, and ready to be shot and ready to move outta here, i will be going up to chicago, etc,

but alas, the show must go on!

Sam i Am

Sam I Am

one interesting discovery i found out about was this movie character, Sam, out of the movie "don't look in the basement' i am going to start a new wing of work based on this movie character, of a retarded heavy set black guy who flips out in the end of the movie and axes all the people in the mental ward, that photo down there below was him after he kill all these people, but, i was sorta on this minor obsession, a month ago, or had it in mind , one good thing about this new computer is i can take film still off and post or make lazer copys of them, i was real intrigues by this character Sam, so i did some research, on the actor, i figured a lost person in the vast film industry, well this actor lives in Dallas, and passd away Feb 17 2007, , so i see this as a sign form the spirt world, why of all the people was i attracted to this guy, hummm strange, i see it as a perminisson to paint this man, , the set

Sam I Am.

mainly alot of head shots of this character in the movie...

its not wise to ignore the spirt world cause it won't ignore you

whats up next
heimo show, and the endeing of this new E gallery show up soon...
stay tuned folks!

this weekend

well its this weekend last stand,

the cheetos deal, still in the works,

the bar deal

painting for the crowds

it was rainy and dark,
Ken little playing in the background,

one thing i have been up to is trying to trade paintings for beer and dates and its quit, fun meeting new people, even got some phone numbers, its like lets throught it oen to the public and see what happens,

congrats for jimmy new adventures in Japan!, await

tues

Sam, this character form this movie, i might do some paintings on this,
and photos from the cove, bar painting comming up!
one week to go, sunday final day of comepltion

monday

count down to the end

this is another picture being send to Chicago, i quit like this one,.

humm here is the slot machine i am still working on with the cheetos project.,

so whats in the news, Herold my good friend here aquired a girlfriend, with is interesting to observe, he is real happy,
-=-=
what else, i am slowily creeping downwards in trying to get some things done here, i am ready to end this zone and hit the road,
but the show must go on!

saturday night, hummm

this painting is part of the show in Chicago, it was made ohhh a year ago i think for the I2I gallery, in their group show " should have been a winner" show, but now its headed to Chicago, to disapear to bad ,

this painting is called" I hear the dogs fucking shit up for the hogs",

i am also basicly rolling along with the other set, another set of like the most inner most bio crap for ricky, this one lung into male identiy Mex style. like the inner working of "this is life" SA style , somehting i am going to explore while i am here...

friday

well the work is under way

ckeck out dreks site
drek---click

this is from Heaps myspace page i like the interview alot, enjoy

Don Carroll of Jack the Pelican Presents....
Interviewed by Joe Heaps Nelson

(this is from white hot magazine dot com)

There was a group show in the next room, and a video soundtrack of screaming guys provided some ambient noise. It sounded like "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! ....Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Heaps: whitehot magazine of contemporary art wants your general take on the New York art scene.

Don: Art is in a different time now. There are so many more artists than there used to be. Wherever you go there are hundreds.
There are 50 -some galleries in Williamsburg.

Heaps: And hundreds in Chelsea.

Don: I was talking to a dealer the other day from Basel, and he said there are 30 galleries in Basel, and we have twice that many here in Williamsburg. It just reflects the fact that there are tens of thousands of artists here on the L train corridor, going into Brooklyn... It's like a cauldron of so many people doing stuff. Although they want to sell their paintings and everything, to some extent what artists really want is for other people to see their paintings! It's so depressing to sit in your studio and make work that nobody ever sees, they want to show, so all these venues sprung up here in Williamsburg. A lot of these galleries are clearly selling work. You can't survive with no sales at all, but it's not really about the money. In Chelsea, it's clearly about the money. Over there you've got dealers who are real professional salespeople who really know how to milk a collector, for a sale. I've seen it and I'm very impressed.

Heaps: Well you have amazing collectors over there, people who want to spend insane amounts of money.

Don: Oh yeah. It's neat because as there are more artists, there are more people buying art. For a long time, say in the 1970's, art had an elitist thing, where you walk into a gallery and see Robert Ryman's white paintings, and you say, "I don't get it!" Art nowadays speaks very directly to contemporary life. So anybody walking into a gallery for the most part, there is usually something you are going to "get". People catch the art bug.

Heaps: I would say the artists you show here have a lot of provocative imagery, and a lot of references to pop culture. It's like a second generation of pop art.

Don: That's a conversation that has come up a lot. At one time artists were using the pop idiom as a social critique. I'm not sure that's entirely true in the case of all those guys, but that's the way it was played, as a political agenda. Whereas nowadays, people have just digested the media as part of who they are. There's no self-conscious distancing from the norms of art. They are just making things that reflect the way they think and feel. It's honest. In some ways its kind of sad... What's the name of that television show? (Don indicates a collage of photographs from the show, and people in the gallery remember it's Saved by the Bell)

Somebody in the gallery: Oh, Saved by the Bell

Don: I stopped watching television at a certain point, it's weird, because I never watched that show, but everybody comes in here and says "Oh my God, Saved by the Bell."

People respond to each other, in relationships and everything, through this medium of pop culture. "What's your favorite TV program?" "What's your favorite band?" So that just becomes part of the climate in which people live. Certainly in Chris Bors' work there is a very self conscious kind of critique going on in there. He's interested specifically in a kind of white trash culture, the leavening of humanity that happens through this thing. His work in that sense is ironic in the way that pop was. If you take someone like Russell Nachman, those watercolors are pop in that they refer to a style of children's book illustration, and he specifically wanted to take that and raise it to an ambitious level, challenging the norms and conventions of traditional muscular painting. But there's nothing ironic in that. It's something that's much more sensitive. In his paintings you see references to Easy Rider, and Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man, and there's a genuine sense of loss.

Heaps: It's like an abandoned hippie landscape.

Don: That and a utopia, that's exactly what it is, but it's not pop... the contemporary sensibility is pop. People just think and feel in pop.
There's a lot of great art out there. It's wonderful to be involved in the art world, because every day is like Christmas. You get a submission and it's like wow! You are surprised! What is this going to be? But of those things that you see, so often it's there almost struggling to come out, but the artist doesn't seem to know it. Like you can't see yourself . For some reason people are blind to their own work.
So I think it's really important that there should be a dialogue between artists.

Heaps: Do you mean a dialogue between pieces in the gallery?

Don: That's important certainly. I always think a group show is like a dinner party. Works addressing one another. I always thought it was strange in museums, there's one piece here and one piece there, and they don't seem to be aware of each other. So when you go into a group show and there's a rapport it's awesome. But I mean more that ...maybe this is my vanity because I'm an artist who doesn't have time to work...the collaboration that goes on between the gallery and the artist, the critics, the collectors... it's exciting . When someone is stubborn, and they don't want to participate in the dialogue, the work doesn't flower. I think people should trust each other more. And look at each other's work. The thing I hate is people coming in a gallery or an art fair and being thumbs up or thumbs down. This sucks, that sucks. Come on who cares whether it sucks or not? Why don't you try and enjoy it? Somebody put a lot of work into making that so that you could look at it, for free. If it doesn't speak to you, it doesn't speak to you, but I think it's more about that than about whether it's good or not. Everyone has this anxiety whether it's good or not good. If you target somebody and say that's good, and somebody else says no that sucks, that means you're stupid. Don't you know the official word on the street is that's bad art? Don't you get it? It has this weird snowball effect, where one person sees a show and says it was all right, and the other person feels empowered and says, you know what? That was a good show! Then they go to their third friend, and they now feel confident, because somebody else confirmed that this is a good artist, and they say hey that was a great show! Then they run into somebody else who says that show really sucked, and suddenly they are embarrassed, and they have some doubt and they pull back. It's funny how the street in that sense confers value... and sainthood. It's so much more interesting, rather than worrying about the status of a gallery or an artist, if you start looking at and engaging the work... because the imaginations of some of these kids will blow your mind. It enriches your world. You start having different kinds of dreams.

Heaps: It's an exciting time to be in New York, but then it always is.

Don: I think so, but if you think back to the eighties, it was so layered with pretension and attitude. So much of the art was all about that attitude.

Heaps: It was a smaller clique in those days

Don: Yeah, probably. There was a lot less opportunity. I was here in the east village scene, and it was pretty trashy, and everyone had attitude. It was either "street" attitude or "I'm rich" attitude. Nowadays I think people, even if they are rich, are just more honest. There's less pretension generally. People are generally connecting with the work and that's great. Maybe this is the point. I think that, a lot of artists might think, they are a gift from God. A lot of people think, Hey, my paintings are better than that guy who's showing over at blah-blah...

Joe: Maybe you have to feel that way in order to keep going, because an art career is so full of disappointments!

Don: It's true, but ultimately if you are not making the work for your own pleasure, you shouldn't be doing it. Stop trying to prove something to the world that you matter. You matter anyway, because you are a person. The most valuable person in any given room is the person who's going to actually going to look at art. Look at the stuff for god's sakes.

White Hot Magazine

Joeheaps.com

thur

its hard to turn the back on this kinda shit

one thing i realied about working i its easyer to make proses work durig the day and painting at night
and boy these are a duseeey
these kinda works echo the hill courty
something i miss

what they are is simple
like elements of love
a conclsuion of the flesh,
and i am getting disgruntle about it
---==--==-
i think i am going into this SA Dechrico kick comming up,if i get over to Sanperdro

wednite

cheetos, and other items,

i have gots to crack these fuckers out, ! the cheetos constructions

wed

so now something a bit more detail

you all are about to see, the creation of a body of work from start to finnished, all before the final date of the 20, it all starts tonight at 10 pm

white walled out

well i had to paint over all my gibberish

it was getting to much , so i am back to getting on the cheetoes deal and boy the clock is ticking, actually there is going to be a collection of a bunch of these types of projects all lined up, lets start with the first one
photos soon!

a review on this one guys work Hiemo!

and
humm lets see what else?
i think i cann't write about any dramas and such, ill have to lock up the stories until i am outta here,
tic toc tic toc

saturday night live

so this is what up

yea i am ready to head out to the high way

but one thing is for certain
i am being restored here, this tank is being repaired.
the past tradygies have resoved, and my armor is hard,
but where?
i remember one thing i am ready to go and do, is go back out to Big Bend , its about time to do that again, i need to lose some weight, and sorta get thing sorted out, , lets face it folks, as a sucessful art ambitions, ahhhhhh, well i am much more settles in my own delisionalism of reclusive sortings than some expelled spirt mixed with the rest,.
i take this shit to serious to , let it be ?!@$%@
So with that being said
i want to go out back to the desart,
and it wil be CDC trouble for me to hock up out there,
prodicting the calendar
March-Aug RRSATX
hopefull down town, AUG- FEB
then back to San marc- then on to WESt TEXAs Desart , but at least that the sentiment now
Y/N
painting wise
well i am doing pigs again

round abouts here

So this is part of this set of paintings competeing against the green maze deal, this one could be the masterpieces of the PFA zone, it about about six others are rolling down the hill, maybe throw six more in, alot of houses and hogs type of stuff, CG zone...

it sure is a nice day out, last night i layed around the house, looking at the ceiling listing to old horror movies play while was cutting snakes out of cardborad, this apartment is making me lazy, to relaxing, basicly

writting on the wall

Death will Become you ,
make ready, its gonna be AC/DC an all that shit

all written at different times but the death statement, well is obvious, time is temparel, but the make ready is , like lets get prepared, and AC/DC well thats the cry of the heay metal rooster remarks, nothing new, just conjuring up the enthusiams, to build something mighty

you have to define it as it is in the moment to what it looks like only from there, will it evolve properly

alot of times i make comments about how alot of paintings work up, and sometimes its best to make contrasts with what i am doing, like how its painted verse the identity of the thing itself, symbols etc, its moment is really the only thing you have in painting, the past of the painting, and its future to the look of it can go off task, maybe these are remarks about A.D.D. and painting..?

your senciblitys could be impared by your taste

or my spelling could impare my message, but in this remark, the capiblity to make better what one makes the who thing could be sckewed by the taste or preferance to a look, and limit what it is your ennate skill would like to do, this conflict of contrast,?

the character is always cropped by its background

one thing i like to do in painting is crop the shit out of figures almost like the cropping and edges are more important that the mass itself..