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THE DAPHNE, OR METAMORPHOSIS PROJECTThe next group show at Gallery 414 in Wichita, Kansas concerns itself with metamorphosis. I have offered up to myself and the other artists an essay-bibliography-poem by Norman O. Brown titled Daphne, or Metamorphosis. This wonderful meandering image-ontology of myth and imagination offers a sapling from which we may grow or revive artworks to put in this show, even without much time to do so. But we artists cannot rest on our laurels, and any excuse to produce must be induced as much as possible, and that is what I aim to do here with these shows. Metamorphosis is a constant in art, and symbol making in general, and some of our cultural roots in trying to understand this transformation of meaning and image go back to the ancient Greeks, and the story of Apollo and Daphne. Brown's writing is a modern way of approaching that without telling the artist exactly what they should do, and for the artist to do what they do, without telling the audience exactly what they should think or perceive from a piece.Here is a sample of Brown's writing, as allowed online from the publisher: click for METAMORPHOSISIt is just one kind of stretch that artist's make, to use ancient cultural mythologies in order to create transformational imagery. It is a cogent one, though, since it is retroactive to the evolution of human symbol-making to draw upon myths. Myths were carved to be justifiable to the elders, but these days we are a little more free to do whatever we want with symbolism, image, substance, and meaning. We have more symbols to play with(Daphne could turn into a refrigerator, instead of a Laurel tree,) or she could run for President. So don't feel encumbered by Mythology with a capitol M. Let's just put on another good show for the art walk, the last ones have been so good, and its been so much fun. And if you've got some cash, buy some of the artwork in this show for your home to experience a metamorphosis all your own.Where: Gallery 414 414 S. Commerce, Wichita, KS When: May 25th, 2007 Special Thanks to Chris Stong
"I hate Phoenix" -Group Show at The Firehouse 4th of July, 1st Friday!
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I will have a couple of my best Tea Pot paintings in this Exhibition, and I will have a couple of my Black Shadow paintings in the back, as well. Hope to see you there. (Watch out for the City Of Phoenix Authorities, they're trying to find reasons to bust artists who might appear to be on the street as artists.)

My Interests

You are listening to Tatterdemalion Day Dream(Version One.) To read the text of the full poem Click Here I spent part of the last few years haning out in Wichita Kansas(working summers in Yellowstone National Park at The Old Faithful Inn.) I spent this time in Wichita doing Mixed Media Art Work , throwing art shows, writing, and making new friends such as the late Tim Gruver, who in that time founded The Tallgrass Film Festival . I also witnessed the growth of the art scene, and the developement of The Commerce Street Art District . Click the highlighted blue font areas for a journey into the Wichita Art Scene.

I'd like to meet:

ATTENTION MOVIE PRODUCERS: My screenplay The Weeding is something like Reservoir Dogs meets Six Degree's of Separation on acid, all the while manipulating both Hollywood idiom and American moral-speak. This spec screenplay is available for option. I also would like to meet POETS; PAINTERS; THEORISTS, DANCERS; ACTORS; PLAYWRIGHTS; ARCHITECTS;YOUR FAMILY; NOVELISTS; DESIGNERS; PRODUCERS; COMPOSERS; SCULPTORS; DIRECTORS; SONGWRITERS; TREES; RIVERS; ROOMS FULL OF ART AND MUSIC...like, check this out: click here GET SOME The Temptation of Saint Anthony (Read 26 times)

Music:

I recently interviewed Los Angelas Painter, film, and design wizard Chet Zar for the Underground Artist Union. Check it out: click here for THE CHET ZAR INTERVIEW

Books:

Click here for my stage play Enemy Towers

Heroes:

My realfriends.

My Blog

Ode To Obamas Wright

Oh, Mr. Obama, I hear the critics deplore,you had twenty years with this dizzying pastor,in all those years how could you ignorethe eccentric rage of this black-power master?For his egregious wounds, ...
Posted by KÆNBR on Mon, 26 May 2008 12:29:00 PST

A Patch Of Colloquies

A Patch Of ColloquiesColloquies Knotweed is common in the small towns, like cheap opinions,it grows from one neighbors yard to the next.A wild Doggerel which rhymes its way around the fencejumping fro...
Posted by KÆNBR on Tue, 13 May 2008 08:11:00 PST

Sheet Music For Musique Concrete

Sheet Music For Musique Concrete1. Driftwood. the river's fork a wood clapped bell, it knocks around in the night, dredging, the rapid eddies shimmering unbound for lonely trout it hollows beneath th...
Posted by KÆNBR on Tue, 06 May 2008 02:00:00 PST

Bottles Of Genocide (poem)

Bottles Of Genocide Life is not fair they say, and then they win, and then they celebrate,and then they acceleratewith the faces of the feast under foot. And like a rear view mirror, the weak rise up...
Posted by KÆNBR on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:24:00 PST

Caesar's Things (poem)

Caesar's Things"Render therefore unto C the things which be C And unto G the things which be G." Luke 20:22These pieces of subjected time in the rendering of history lay around before meas I walk the ...
Posted by KÆNBR on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:14:00 PST

Caesars Things (poem)

Caesar's Things"Render therefore unto C the things which be C And unto G the things which be G." These pieces of subjected time in the rendering of history lay around before meas I walk the dogs of s...
Posted by KÆNBR on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:13:00 PST

The Innertube Tree (poem)

The Innertube TreeThe manual laborer of pedaled wheelspulls around the symbol of his relationship with timeas it hisses, quickly losing form.A circle of patches to be balanced against the odds,stuffed...
Posted by KÆNBR on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:23:00 PST

Awakening In Paradise Valley (poem)

Awakening In Paradise ValleyWalking accross the tightlymowed grass in dampening socks,it was though the Earth peered up through points of accupuncture.In the beginning there was painand from pain came...
Posted by KÆNBR on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:12:00 PST

Heroic Structure On A Sunday Morning (poem)

Heroic Structure On A Sunday MorningThe composition of mosaic is like the blinking of an eye,the fissures between darkness and recollection weaving together like dreams do the skin of consciousness.Op...
Posted by KÆNBR on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:10:00 PST

In Spite Of Us (poem)

In Spite Of UsIf we are part and parcel,there is a rambling rough draftwhich qualifies this accident.We were like employee'swaiting in the same mess linethat poisoned a young woman.We take our bowls o...
Posted by KÆNBR on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:07:00 PST