New paintings: Cigarets.

Paintings by Harry

These are Harry's first three paintings ever.

He is 73 years young.

All three will be on exhibition at the Full Life Coffee Shop for it's grand opening on June 1st on Sandy Blvd in NE Portland.

this fine Tuesday

Thinking of sculpture in terms of painting is mindbending. Mindblowing. Insane. A really wonderful thing to think about and get busy doing.

I began making these forms at work today. Glue and lollipop sticks.

My afternoon client, Harry, worked on a painting as I worked on these lollipop sculptures. This is his second painting and it is really great. He's a psychedelic painter. His work will be hanging at the Full Life coffee shoppe on Sandy in NE Portland in the not-too-distant future.

Bangerang.

New paintings

These are some blurry snap shots of some new paintings. The one with the pope is done. The other two are in limbo.

I've been enjoying working on glass. It's fun to be thinking about both sides of the surface. I also like the fact that they are somehow un-photographable. How do you take a photo of glass? What to do with the background?

These days paintings are more important as jpegs than actual paintings. I have never seen any of my favorite paintings in real life - just digital images of images of images. I like the idea that it is not possible for some of these new paintings to be reproduced as a photo - you have to see them in real life. That's true for all paintings, I suppose... but having unphotographable paintings really pushes the point home.

Yellow cat

I spilt half a gallon of yellow paint on the livingroom carpet. Kitten rolled through the puddle and now he is yellow.

The carpet looks pretty cool though.

Sunday sunday

Sunday is a great day when Monday is a holiday. Pabst blue ribbon and kittens. Farmers Market fresh hazelnuts and home made bread. Tom Waits on vinyl. Mississippi John Hurt. Good warm sun and dirty dirt.

Recommeded listening: Edan's 'Primitive Plus.'

Portland local band: Nurses. Really great band, methinks.

Also local: The Robot Ate Me.  I opened a Santa Barbara show for him a couple of years ago. He (Ryan something beginning with a b... like Bouchard or something like that) put on a really wonderful performance and I have been enjoying his recordings ever since.

Going to see Animal Collective tomorrow. Grouper is opening. Totally sweet memorial day.

Portland is really treating us well. How's things in your corner of the world?

All the best.