In Memory of my Father.. the first cool artist I ever knew,handpainted murals on some of the biggest buildings in Chicago. I am going to miss him. Rest in Peace Pop..
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxI am inspired by the art of many, painters Mark Rothko, Antoni Tapies, Robert Motherwell, Richard Diebenkorn.
Photographers, Sebastio Salgado, Mary Ellen Mark, Eugene Richards. Revolutionary muralists Diego Rivera, Jose Orozco and muralist,photographer Ben Shahn and my dad.
Music:
Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Joe Satriani, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Stones, Lambchop, Limp Bizkit, The Clash, Lynrd Skynrd, Muddy Waters, Patsy Cline, Motorhead, Nelly, Tom Waits, Jason and the Scorchers. Velvet Underground,George Strait, Whitesnake, Doors, Billy Idol, Tina Turner, Billy BraggEudaimonea is from Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. It is his word for that unique form of happiness to which humans aspire, the happiness that comes from achieving our natural purpose in life.
Movies:
Jean-luc Godard's "Breathless" with jean-paul belmondo , Luis Bunuel's 'That Obscure Object of Desire", anything by the Coen Brothers, especially "Barton Fink",Fellini, Hitchcock, De Niro in Taxi Driver, Marlon Brando in Streetcar Named Desire, Brando in On the Waterfront, Billy Wilder's "The Apartment" Any movie ever made with Jeromy Irons, The Station Agent, Bullitt with Steve McQueenJapanese Sci-Fi with or without Godzilla. A Place Called Chiapas, Zeitgeist films , Independent films, great link; olivefilms.com
Books:
The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Notes from Underground; Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov; Dostoevsky, Nausea; Sartre, The Book of Tea; kakuzo Okakura, Tao Te Ching; Lao Tsu, The Handmaids Tale;Margaret Atwood, Black Skin, White Masks; Franz Fanon, Poems by Allen Ginsberg, Naked Lunch; William Burroughs, Anything by Henry Miller,Hank Bukowski
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee;Dee Brown,10 Days That Shook the World;John Reed, The Dialectical Imagination; Martin Jay, The Art Spirit;Robert Henri, Looking For the Light(Marion Post Wolcott) by Paul Hendrickson, Vanessa Bell(artist/painter sister of Virginia Woolf); Frances Spalding.Discipline & Punish; Michael Foucault. Herbert Marcuse; Eros & Civilization, One Dimensional Man and Reason and Revolution.NIGHT SONG, Watercolor on Paper 24" x 36"
UNTITLED Watercolor on paper 24" x 36"EBONY BUTTERFLY Watercolor, gesso on paper 24" x 36"
PHOTOGRAPH: NATCHEZ TRACE BRIDGE (2004)Mark RothkoAntoni TapiesJackson Pollock(Another of my door photographs)“Being the wife of Diego is the most marvelous thing in the world…I let him play matrimony with other women. Diego is not anybody’s husband and never will be, but he is a great comrade.â€
Heroes:
they exist everywhere all around us..Mark RothkoJean Paul Sartre
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die""Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004 George W. Bush
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