ALL I WANT TO DO IS PAINT LANDSCAPES NOW...

Big sigh of relief...I just put the finishing touches on my latest painting. It's a biggie, as I might have mentioned in previous blogs, and of course it is Entropy Gate related. There are four panels that hang apart from each other...the main panel is an image of a woman surrounded by a wash of spatters and glazes as well as several well hidden collaged figures. I have also attached parts that I removed from VCRs, computers, TVs and the like...the panel is about six feet tall. The side panel has a a device that lights up and you can see a slide photo of the drawing that I first made as a reference for the finished painting. There is a magnifying lens that just out from the panel to enlarge the image. To the right of the main panel are two other panels. One is a "book" of collaged images and a brief narrative told from the point of a "scraper" (one who cleans the chambers when a hyclone dies due to IBCA - incompatible Bio-Cybernetic Adjoining). The title of each paragraph then coincides with the music that I wrote "Voices from the Chamber". The panel directly above the "book" has a CD player that's been stripped down the bare essentials and collaged and painted. It plays the CD to help create the mood.

I've been wrestling with this piece for about four or five months now and am so relieved to finally have it done. There was a real euphoria once I hung it in the gallery (the University is having a Faculty Alumni Show this weekend Saturday from 7-9 and my piece is right at the front of the gallery..l.whoo hoo!) Needles to say, after the last painting "Silla and the Guardians" (soon to be posted on my site along with the one I just finished) which was no light subject matter deal with good and evil/life and death/heaven and hell, and now the one I just finished "The Future of Flesh, But What of the Soul" which deals with questions of the soul as it relates to a man who realizes that one of the hyclones he has become emotionally attached to is dying. The man does not believe in God, yet believes that the hyclones are living creatures and he struggles with his duty to report her symptoms. He chooses not to and she is visited by "the Minister" from book 3. (all of that is told with the narrative). The woman in the central painting then is "HER" at the moment she has accepted her fate, having heard the Minister's words and is ready to embrace paradise...

I'm exhausted...Physically and emotional.

I think I'm going to take a small break from the Entropy Gate images and paint some landscapes...

Rabbits and more rabbits...

A student recommended Donnie Darko to me and so I experienced it...it is not one of those movies you just watch, you really experience it if you have the patience and enjoy that sort of thing...there's an interesting web site here...

So what does Donnie Darko have to do with Entropy Gate or Rabbits? Well Donnie is hearing voices from a rather tall rabbit named Frank. And as far as the EG connection, let's just say there's a connection but if I tell you here then it'd spoil Donnie Darko for you...

It is rated R for language and some drug use, though the "drug use" is so quick and unimportant that it slips right by...I'm thinking the main reason for the R is for the first dinner conversation in which Donnie and his sister resort to ridiculous cursing when neither one of them can think of any other way to battle each other...