Spring is here and the new weather heralds in feelings of freedom and relief! The block is gorgeous with its explosion of flowers and all my neighbors talk laudly and laugh in the middle of the street.
I had a caricaturing gig in Rockville cntr this weekend. Its been too long! I was so nervous when i entered their private residence, but the family was delightful, and we all had fun, and I am still find the LIRR to be slightly romantic, a feeling of going somewhere much further away.
I spent a fair amount of time this weekend getting acquainted with Instagram. There is a lot to this, and I already crave and despise it. I am trying to make it so that this is about art, and about "me as art", like Rosanna said so colorfully. Trying to maintain a zero-baby pics policy.
I believe social media is a scourge. Too much change too fast. I am a Luddite to begin with, and the ubiquitious discussion about cold hard technology is deafeningly boring. Its not going to lead to anything good. This rapid fire exchange of information, and no one is even addressing the truth about our planet?
Figure drawing group on Sunday:
The model's name was Sheila, and when she twisted this way in front of me, I felt a jolt of seratonin course through my system. She is a wonderful model. Tiny and composed. Another great model is John, below. Everything about him says, "soft" - his flesh, his voice, his hair which wisps about like feathers. I have come to know him after a few sessions. John started out as a bureaucrat working for the city, decided he wanted to travel, received a Fulbright Scholarship (Russian), and traveled to Kyrgyzstan where he lived for two years, teaching people how to cultivate their land. Fascinating. His pale skin is splotched with pink and his hair follicles look inflamed-a testament to his fragility.
From attending these sessions, I met Anjl, who
taught me how to grafitti today!!
All these years of trying to do it with paints and pencils!!! I have no interest, oddly, in creating legit graffiti, only in appropriating its formal aspects. Anjl and her peers are into creating completed murals. However, it is the unfinished-looking hastily and secretly executed "throwies" that compel. This is for the same reason reggae devotees enjoy the echo effect...somehow, it suggests something otherworldly.
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