w a s t e b a s k e t | " v a r m i n t s "
trivia, flotsam & jetsam, feeble first thoughts, and feebler seconds.
late-night notions i should no doubt have reconsidered.
general silliness.
["it seemed like a good idea at the time," he said in his defence.]
[knowing it was no defence.]
various sizes, materials, times, and states of mind.
late-night notions i should no doubt have reconsidered.
general silliness.
["it seemed like a good idea at the time," he said in his defence.]
[knowing it was no defence.]
various sizes, materials, times, and states of mind.
awkward hand
text: perhaps a little awkward, yes. pencil 8" x 11.5" |
homesick
text: nynee tal ink on paper mounted on ply 4" x 5" |
horseman
text: not knowing who, or why - ink on graph paper 8" x 11" |
message: प्रगति
text: never completely ready ink & poster paint on card 6" x 8" |
two notebook pages
text 1: one text 2: two [& assorted illegible scrawls] collage on a brown paper bag 6.5" x 9" |
forgetting
text: or. or - or. did. i. do. that. already? ink 8.5" x 11" |
promise
text 1: here text 2: you will find treasure soon. collage on a brown paper bag 5" x 12" |
teatime cat
text: sipping his tea, s. gestures at the world about us. the more interesting question, s. says, is how much significance we should attach to the pervasiveness of narrative itself. look, i say, there's a cat. & s. says: i don't think i can bear it much longer. bear what? i ask him. how you're always so flippant, he says. why can't we ever have a serious conversation? it's only 7:30, i say. & he goes back to his tea. the cat has mysteriously vanished. pencil on card 6" x 8" |
spinning
text 1: he says / he leaves text 2: the sun comes up again pencil and ink 8.5" x 12" |
drawing for HH, who never alas made a drawing for me
text: glimpsing HH & AP at the museum mixed media 8.5" x 11" |
219/220
text 1: 219 text 2: 220 mixed media, MDF, resin 8" x 11" |
emerging
text: but that might take some re-adjustment. pencil and poster paint on card 6" x 8" |
swell
text: here... mixed media on card diameter 3.5" |
fructose
text: goddamn high fructose corn syrup. pencil and poster paint on card 6" x 8" |
which is
text: which. is. some. which. is. plenty. which. is. none. ink 8.5" x 12" |
stonelike #1
ink 8.5" x 11" |
barefoot
text: i think he wanted to embarrass me. and i was embarrassed. so much for being in control of my feelings. pencil on card 6" x 8" |
clenched
text: yes ink on a brown paper bag 6" x 7" |
message: winter afternoon
text: worse confounded pencil and poster paint on card 6" x 8" |
3 versions of an early print : #1
text: you never understand anything. woodcut print 10" x 14" |
8 types of wheat ambiguity
text: empson at breakfast. mixed media, MDF, resin 6" x 8" |
knees up
text: no sir, i am holding still. pencil and poster paint on card 6" x 8" |
message: twig
text: what he wants you to know. mixed media on card 6" x 8" |
two hillsides
(double-sided image on board) text side A: this way up text side B: this way up colour pencil, MDF 8" x 10.5" |
3 versions of an early print : #2
text 1: si-lent night! ho-ly night! all is calm, all is bright, round your vir-gin mother and child! ho-ly infant so tender and mild, sleep in hea-ven-ly peace, sleep in hea-ven-ly peace! text 2: 3 july 2017. it was forty degrees outside, and t. wouldn't stop singing carols. of course i hated him. collage on woodcut print 10" x 14" |
mister 33
text: तैंतीस ink 8" x 11.5" |
drainpipe
text: - now the sun is out again. pencil on card 6" x 8" |
mister wincer
text 1: no. no. no. oh dear. oh dear. no. no. no. damn. damn. damn. oh - oh damn. oh no. oh. text 2: unknown man in green vest mixed media collage 8" x 12" |
message: here
text: present solitude. pencil on card 6" x 8" |
china
text: but my head is in china pencil 8.5" x 11.5" |
runway
text: there's always an always. ink on a brown paper bag 7" x 9" |
the given
text: regardless of circumstance. ink on graph paper 8" x 11" |
on the road, week two
text 1: tuesday text 2: we ['he' amended] drove all night while i slept, troubled by unfamiliar ['strange' struck through] dreams, & then it was day & i opened my eyes to see - mixed media, MDF 5" x 6" |
mister metaphysic
text: because the feelings are born from natural characteristics. because there is nothing outside at the moment. sorrow repeatedly. as waves in the ocean. being noticed by the couple. who arise in him like a dream. a dense storm hiding the sun. how many types is it made up of? the desire for experience. all of us came here to begin our lives. in our bodies, where pain and pleasure are facts. unimaginably vast. existence and then activity. nothing is ever lost. they are only freed. and yet they appear to be substantial. new leaves from the same shoot. spreading through the body. these injunctions. these prohibitions. heavy as snowflakes. wounded by arrows. in that empty place. rain and more rain from the clouds above. the delights of this world and those of the worlds to come. mixed media collage 9" x 12" |
mister theseus
text: what labyrinth? ink, colour pencil and poster paint on a paper bag 6" x 10" |
non-drawing hand
text: yes, i see it now. pencil on card 6" x 8" |
all is true
text: & so it all ended well. text: & so it all ended badly. (reversible image) pencil and poster paint on card 6" x 8" |
mystery
text: sometimes, there is, inexplicably, a blank space, ______, like so. collage on a brown paper bag 5" x 12" |
sunrise
text: the next morning was the same as the one before. mixed media 10" x 14" |
ocean
text 1: save image as: ocean text 2: 227, 229, 239, 241, 269, 271, 281, 283, 311, 313, 347, 349, 419, 421, 431, 433, 461, 463, 521, 523 text 3: [5] - [10] - [15] ink and pastel on a brown paper bag 5" x 12" |
milk portrait
text 1: portrait of a marriage as a tall glass of milk - cary grant & joan fontaine text 2: #1. *this was suspicious. #2. *this was suspicious. #3. *this was suspicious. ? *this was suspicious. #4. acrylic transfer and collage on a brown paper bag 5" x 12" |
dom
ink and colour pencil on a block of wood 2.5" x .75" x 1" |
gossip
text: [1] you know what boys are like... [2] i think i spent my life assuming that happened to everyone else. [4] perhaps that just makes me even more dangerous... pencil on card 6" x 8" |
curving
text: but now they had both grown older. ink on graph paper 8" x 11" |
over the sea
text: over the sea. pencil 8.5" x 11.5" |
mister remembering hyde park
text: serpentine ink on a brown paper bag 6" x 7" |
"but where were we?" : #1
typed text: but where were we? scrawled text: i don't recall - behind the wall there were train track[s] - we had stopped for about ten minutes - it was still early in the day - no one spoke - digital print, MDF, resin 3.5" x 9.5" |
edge-critter
text: to the ve[ry] edge of the world... collage on card diameter 3.5" |
short story
text: i. they waited. listlessly. text: ii. the desert sun beat down on them. pencil on card set of two, 3.5" each |
closer-critter (after looking at some images by giger)
text: closer reading later ink 8.5" x 11" |
felonious monk
text: ...& then this monk caught hold of her, and cleaned out her bank account. ink on card 6" x 8" |
on the vine
text: a second truism? i haven't gotten used to the first as yet. pencil and poster paint on card 6" x 8" |
feller swooper / swooper feller
text: fell. swoop. ink 8.5' x 11" |
chimborazo
text 1: ignore this presumably. text 2: was sitting on it had a bo / went forth as a conqueror / john is back on earth / door opening to heavenly text 3: discard mixed media, MDF, resin 6" x 8" |
approaching
text: "are you any closer, are you any closer, now?" mixed media, MDF, resin 6" x 8" |
message: singing wires
text: ordinary stupefaction pencil on card 6" x 8" |
malted milk
text: no no no - it's just the wind, it's just the wind, it's just - mixed media, MDF, resin 6" x 8" |
on the balcony
text: some propositions, you said, agree with reality. digital print, typed text, MDF, resin 3" x 5" |
leak
text: starting on the inside. mixed media on graph paper 8" x 11" |
mister excitement-isn't-enough
text: but where is stability? mixed media 8.5" x 12" |
wer.sch
text: .wer.sch collage on a brown paper bag 5" x 8" |
message: climbing
text 1: entrenched in the mind text 2: this way ⇧ pencil and poster paint on card 6" x 8" |
stonelike #2
ink 8.5" x 11" |
window
text: five more to go. pen and poster paint on card 6" x 8" |
3 versions of an early print : #3
text 1: b e i n g : text 2: analysis of the history of imitation in the form of a snatch of conversation possibly overheard in a semi-public place. text 3: is it an animal? text 4: i don't know, really. / is it an animal? / no. / what does it resemble? / itself... / and does it sound like itself? / (they pass out of hearing) collage on woodcut print 8" x 13" |
outside
text: all the bodies packed in the earth all the voices crowding the air ink and glass marker 7" x 10" |
priapic hymn #179 (shorts)
text 1: oh lawd, oh lawd, oh lawd, oh lawd, text 2: an invitation to a place of amusement text 3: (four-part harmony) [music fragment by george gershwin, clothing label by zara, & text from fortune cookie.] collage, MDF, resin 5" x 8" |
branching
text: these ones were broken ink on card 6" x 8" |
visitation
text 1: [illegible, typed over] text 2: as if in a dream, his face emerged from the surface of the water. text 3: he said: when did we last meet? text 4: it had been a while: [1] we were separated. [2] he was busy. [3] i was too much in his debt. text 5: the waters closed over him again. mixed media on card 7.5" x 11.5" |
visitor: self-portrait as an unknown stranger
text 1: it's been 20 years. can i come in? text 2: who are you? mixed media, MDF, resin 6" x 8" |
vanishing
text: it vanished in the distance. collage, resin, ply 4" x 7" |
first hurrah for capitalism
(apotropaic drawing for vinit atal at the university of chicago booth school of business, where, since 1898, they say, they have been producing "ideas and leaders that shape the world of business." for better or for worse.) text 1: three three three / three cheers / for / capitalism text 2: (really four and a half) text 3: rat mixed media, MDF 5" x 8" |
mister dream-vision
text 1: dream vision - BR text 2: 27/X/2017 mixed media, MDF 6" x 8" |
fuzzy machine
ink on paper 8" x 8" |
eighth blind man
accidentally broken marble statue, old wooden chopping board, poster paint, MDF tray 9" x 14" |
mister fallen down
text 1: 1. it was a dark & stormy night. text 2: 2. he had slipped & fallen onto his back. text 3: 3. we stepped indoors. text 4: 4. shouting above the music, he said: text 5: "in my opinion" text 6: 5. then his voice was swallowed up. text 7: (& i thought: to every mood its season.) mixed media on cardboard 6.5" x 10" |
genesis 4:8
text 1: G O D (presumably) text 2: ...& a flock of birds text 3: C L O U D text 4: mister A B E L (he dead) text 5: mister C A I N (he dunnit) text 6: C L O U D S H A D O W text 7: " L E T ' S G O O U T T O T H E F I E L D . " mixed media on cardboard 8" x 8" |
missing body
text 1: this is where the sun was going down. text 2: (birds) text 3: this was where the body was last night. text 4: you can make a case easily enough. sometimes, the case is mistaken. text: missing body. mixed media on cardboard 6" x 8" |