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Performance Ritual: New Painting: 'House on Marconi'

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Occasionally illuminating thoughts from a moderately successful painter. Wednesday, December 22, 2010. New Painting: 'House on Marconi'. House on Marconi 2010, 5.5 X 8" acrylic on illustration board. It’s an odd sensation painting something that one walks by everyday. The subject of ‘House on Marconi’ sits only a few yards from our front door. This blog is an attempt to provide a psychological and social context for my work. View my complete profile. New Painting: House on Marconi.

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Performance Ritual: The Big Picture

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Occasionally illuminating thoughts from a moderately successful painter. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Waiting eight hours in a packed emergency room with one’s swollen arm in a sling makes one reassess how life was before one’s elbow slammed into a sidewalk. I write this as I recuperate from surgery for a broken ulna which has left my arm looking and feeling like it was beaten with a mallet until the person beating it became bored with the project. Lesson in mortality - January 23, 2015. As a kind of bal...

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Performance Ritual: One Day at Rest, Painting 1

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Occasionally illuminating thoughts from a moderately successful painter. Friday, October 28, 2011. One Day at Rest, Painting 1. One Day at Rest, Untitled 1 (7:51 am), 2011. 8 X 55" acrylic on illustration board. I used all manner of materials when I was younger, the different media transforming the ideas I brought to them. What happened? This blog is an attempt to provide a psychological and social context for my work. View my complete profile. One Day at Rest, Painting 1.

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Performance Ritual: October 2010

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Occasionally illuminating thoughts from a moderately successful painter. Wednesday, October 20, 2010. Being an artist means sometimes doing what seems most frightening. Normally, the days go by in a pleasant kind of tedium, a feeling that work is getting done. After so many years of refining a process, there’s little to sort out beyond the logistics of how one tackles the next area to be painted. The mind often fixates on other less immediate things like ‘Why is my ankle sore? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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Performance Ritual: February 2012

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Occasionally illuminating thoughts from a moderately successful painter. Saturday, February 11, 2012. One Day at Rest, Untitled 3 (9:17 am) 2012. 55 X 8" acrylic on board. I spent the last month weaning myself off facebook. I went to my home page, checked for messages or notifications, looked at the first couple of posts and left. Do I really need to see what other artists are doing? One Day at Rest, Untitled 2 (8:15 am) 2011. 3 X 3" Coloured pencils on board. One Day at Rest, Untitled 4 (7:19 am) 2012.

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Performance Ritual: June 2012

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Occasionally illuminating thoughts from a moderately successful painter. Monday, June 11, 2012. One Day at Rest, Untitled 5 (12:37 pm) 2012. 8 X 55" acrylic on board. Montreal has finally slipped the shackles of winter. Only the scars on boulevard trees and the bent iron railings of gates too near the sidewalk to avoid the reckless destruction of countless, clattering mini plows remind us of what has passed. The sense of deflation I felt from this remark was probably more extreme than warranted but it mu...

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Performance Ritual: Living in Exile

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Occasionally illuminating thoughts from a moderately successful painter. Monday, April 4, 2011. Petemar Enterprises 2011, 5.5 X 8" acrylic on illustration board. 8217; encounter. The second, a licking of mid-life wounds, an almost random stab at the map for a new place to start again. Exile is the removal of oneself from the realm of interest that so possesses the person in exile. The removal, which can heighten one’s desire to engage the mind with what was left behind can also, over time, allo...Montrea...

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Performance Ritual: Performance Ritual

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Occasionally illuminating thoughts from a moderately successful painter. Wednesday, December 15, 2010. Recently, I filmed an entire day of my painting process, my ‘Performance Ritual’. It was an exhausting day. I had a long list of shots I needed to illustrate the typical day in my studio beginning with the first few moments after waking at seven to the final marking of my time sheet and extinguishing of my lamp at five. This blog is an attempt to provide a psychological and social context for my work.