post modern priapus

Oh, no, i’ll be using that name for something else, I’m sure. But having come upon it last night, I just couldn’t resist.

Anyways, these following are a series of paintings that I was working on at the same time I was working on the Ringo’s Rainbow stuff, which is to say January-May of 2008. There are a couple of different facets to the series. It starts off as a desire to put the song Wolves with images (something it would certainly benefit from, in the future, it would be very lovely if Wolves was a painted book. hmm, ideas ideas), or at least to do paintings in the world Wolves inhabits. It’s a very specific world, one that exists right outside of ours, or really just is our world, just seen differently, with more truth. Like through a peepstone, but not as lame and influential to thousands of Americans (what?).

Anyways, here are the Wolven Paintings, done in Gouache and Watercolor, all around 5 x 7″ on paper:

The project then went more inwardly for me, (wow, inwardly is a word! that’s great!), and I began to make work more directly about things that had really happened, with the exception of this first painting on a chair with a great shadow.

This painting was more trying to move myself into the mindset of when I was about to paint, which is around three years old.

The next two are from real things that happened, the first being an awkward moment at three when I accidentally got totally wasted (it was all my fault, don’t blame anyone else but me! See, I was walking around the table at a dinner party being cute and asking for sips of champagne, and then when everyone left the table, I went around and asked for more sips. so dastardly. anyways i got wasted and started driving my tricycle up the stairs. whoops.)

This last one is from this great picture of me at three when I am totally naked, painting the floor of our bungalow blue. There’s a larger painting of this picture, but I don’t have a good reproduction of it yet.

So those are more snippets of the creative mind of a year ago. The reason I don’t have more to show of this semester is that all the work is in book form, and I don’t want to give spoilers, but Oh oh OH will they come soon (I mean, they have to, the semester’s almost over. yikes.)