No Change

How is it that a person can pack and load and haul. Pack and load and haul. And the studio looks the same as it did like a week ago? Bananas.

Things are coming along in 617Midway. Is bittersweet saying goodbye to the old girl.

But seriously: Who brought all this stuff in this place?

Sketchbooks

Question:

How many sketchbooks does a lover of the line need?

Draw, draw, draw, draw, draw, draw, draw.

Abandoned Project: The Mondrian Riff that Fell Flat

Remember "Piet and the Egg?" Something from the Gorky bio I read, or Elaine and Bill.... but a riff about Mondrian buying eggs in Manhattan. All was well with this oil until I got so involved and brought in more black.

Trash

How much trash can one studio produce? I am pretty sure I have taken down 18,000 carts worth at this point. And no, to you purists, I am not throwing out "Coast to Coast" and "Early Spring Training." They are in the keep pile, not the trash cart!

Another Studio Find: Shape Poem

Here is one that I found in one of the many, many sketchbooks I found today. It is huge. I am not sure of shape poems are ever 100% successful, but I was probably engaged with some Kenneth Koch or some O'Hara and trying my hand. I did notice the riff off of Martha Collins' "What Words Can Do." I actually folded this one up and saved it, although some was a lot better than the rest.

But it would break / everything inside you / to know / what words can do.

Abandoned Projects: Dollar Hearts

One of the more interesting and fun things about the great studio cleanup and move out of 2009 is coming across these projects that I started and either lost steam or I ran out of time with for one reason or another.

Above, see some shots from a collage project I was working on that was combining catalog imagery, transparencies, and layering. What did this project in was open studios coming along, and also, my missing actually applying paint to canvas. I had been working on a lot of collage stuff, which is great from the product, but the process is less fulfilling to me than drawing or painting is at times.

Anyhow, interesting. Only one of many finds in 617 Midway this week.

Major Midway Progress

Fort Point Channel Yesterday