My Art Depository

I have been posting works in progress as well as finished work as I document and progress. More to follow in the future.

Art Depository

Emotional Outbursrsts and Productivity

I will begin first by expressing my unsurprised disappointment with Senate not passing the Defense Authorization Bill. As Rachel Maddow stated "Republicans, your culture war is showing." Because the Republican Party did not want to have to deal with anything which would deal with the repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell(DADT) Policy, the filibustered the whole bill. Politicians cited a whole multitude of reasons why they voted No on SB 3454, but I am a little bit more taken aback by Sen. McCain blatant denial in an interview after the session denying that DADT is not used to witch-hunt homosexual soldiers out of the military, despite that Air Force Major Mike Almy was discharged under DADT for that specific reason. I think I will cease that rant there.

Correlating with my disappointment has been, in my opinion, an alarming rate of art production. Yesterday I had primed several canvases for making something interesting, or maybe inane and un-pretty. I have now before me three recently finished artworks, two of which I intend on exhibiting in November.

This past weekend, I also purchased two particle board panels. It has been one of my artistic wants to have a kitschy collage board, which I intend on making into a 4.5'-5' tall room divider. I will eventually purchase the a third panel so that this project has the base and stability to stand on its own. In the mean time. I will begin adhering different images which I find fascinating and pretty to the panels. Hopefully, it will look like the inside of an old record store with hundreds of images that have been pasted up and taken down over years. It will not necessarily have that aged look, but hopefully a similar aesthetic.

Frenetic Art Making Patterns, or I suck at painting Orchids

My art making can best be described as a frenetic, jump start/stalling, hectic making. I will have the sudden irresistible urge to make something or just get an idea on paper or canvas. When I do, the process seems to flow so smoothly and almost issue and hassle free. With this in mind, I have a canvas panel I have been working on for a while. I was doing some experiments with layering, stenciling, and stamping. Besides the fact that I think I am in love with stamping, and stenciling, I was finally happy with the ground I established for the most part. It is a bad imitation of one of those faux prints you find at Bed Bath & Beyond. It is so tacky and cliche, and I can't really help but like how it looks. In my art making process, I determined that it needed something soft and organic to counter all the hard-edged lines. The prints and stamps have these lovely baroque style curves, but the edges are so clean. After looking through some images of flowers, I determined Phalenopsis Orchids were the way to go. I started setting down the forms for the petals and the under painting for all the lines, and I have come to the determination that I suck at painting orchids. I'm so out of practice at painting flowers, but I suppose that being out of practice implies that there has been practice prior to this attempt at painting orchids. I have never painted orchids before. i think I might have to go with a different approach with this endeavor tomorrow morning.

Pastor Terry Jones is a Coward

Pastor Jones from Gainsville Florida has sounded a rallying cry against Islam in his profound and lamentable ignorance. He plans on staging a Qoran buring rally on September 11, 2010. Jones believes that the now renamed Park 51 Place Muslim Community Center, formerly called Cordoba House is an affront to the September 11 Memorial which is under construction at Ground Zero.

Pastor Jones and his congregation burning one-thousand Qoran's on September 11, is not a defiant act against what he perceives to be a tyrant religion, but at best an act of cowardice, and no matter which way you look at it, an act of sacrilege. He and his church's actions will endanger the lives of US troops overseas. The troops will be the ones to suffer the worst of the consequences for Pastor Jones burning the Qoran. The fact that he thinks this is a defiant act is beyond me. There is nothing brave, or profound about this. It is disrespectful, bitter, hate-filled vitriol. Jones and his congregation will not face the worst of the consequences. They will not have to face the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, and pretty much all other Muslims. He will not have rocket-propelled Grenades launched at him. He will not be shot at, or have fire bombs hurled at his vehicle. Muslim people overseas will not understand Freedom of Speech that is written in the Constitution. They will see a hateful American man descrating a Muslim Holy Book, as representative of American Sentiment because he has the right to do so. He will not have to endure what will happen to the troops overseas if he goes through with this.



That terrifies and shakes me to my core in a way that words fail to truly express. The most concise and articulate thought I can state is "Pastor Terry Jones is a coward."