Read about, the story of a collections of painting that became known as the first "obsessive /love" painting in CDC history....
back in the sumer of 2006, i went off one and on to anther, this other was Scruffy, and she was brought up here alot on this site, it rose and fell, like any crush but what became of the paintings were all stored away,
So why should anybody care about a dual "love" works?, i think trying to date me,i was like a psychologist, probing and taping the person for data, stuff to work with, when i first got "involved" with her she was the first one who got my sense of male humor and didn't go off on my "sexism" etc like the last, it was like a breath of fresh air, she was like my asshole enabler to a degree, so one of the ways i trapped her into likeing me was ,"lets do a painting" and what was produced was an odd ball mix of barbie doll line works, uncomfortable body images about getting fat, and go girl hoe'dim , she had a natural way of drawing and painting comming from her ceramic background so i just told her to draw in some figures and ill put in the background. We had about i think 8-10 paintings floating around late at night in my on campus studio back at UTSA, we would be drinking and she would write stuff on them , mainly expressions,. The work looked or was in line with this other set of work i did in 2005 called "Green Lake" about skinny dippers, so it i thought her style would fit into this greater white trash / porn stuff. Needless to say the work was quickly shelved after she went on to somebody else and the paintings were these documents , more of me hittiing on her, than anything but really autobiographical on her part cause they were females in them,.
They also had one famous story put on them, when a professor came into my studio and older female and wanted to know WTF was this and she was trying to figure them out, probing me for possible sexism. one of the famous lines was me telling her,"hey i didn't paint these the figures are from scruffy, it cannt be sexist if she did them?!" she knew her and said, "i know she buys you bullshit !but i am not, this is sick" i told her why, and she rattled of the standard test for sexist artwork , Well i told her , "well its like a horror painting, i have my victim here its scary eaaaks scary," , .And she left my studio , and bolted to her car.,
So went the story and ended what was the scruffy paintings of 2006 summer, but....
What has now became known as the "greatest dating comeback in my history" i ended up hooking up with her , for real!, early this year , even know it was a brief encounter, i was over joyed and wanted to quickly zip her back out to Brenham where i have all this work stored and handed her a paint brush and beer and said, here paint fast cause i know this is gonna be over before its started ,but this time , i won!. And so in one or two nights the work was complete and few new ones were added, i promised her that what was sold would go to buying her new computer, the catch was she had to be with me long enough to see it happen, humm three months, ., wasn't long enough i guess, but none the less,.
So i bought four of them out here to sale, and now well its over and the scruffy phaze is nothing but a chapter in chickens perverted art history, and well it should go out the same way it came in, like a cheap pulp horror movie, but i suspect like any movie nobody really ever dies , and our friendship will endure, at least for anther squal, hehehehe
