I love waste especially. All forms, i think. Garbage cans and dumpsters. Wasted time in alleys and doorways. Trails of stink.......carbon....trashcans in concrete corners. Thrown-away boards. Wasted nights in front of pretty pictures with words. Running for their lives. Wasted time and space in my little rooms with the little people and their little stories. Im a painter and a cook/ waiter/kitchen monkey. I work primarily in oils and multi media. Found objects, discarded building material, scraps, fabrics, window frames, doors, shelves and shit boards, whatever still has some life in it. The coffee is important in this line of work. As is the music and the time spent. The books on general orthopoedics and ekg readings, animal biology,human sacrifice, and murder mysteries, they also play a role. My slow and ritualistic accumulation of discarded relics of habitats like roof shingles, window frames, ripped-out pieces of wood, metal scraps and fabrics; that eventually squeeze me out of my house, is a habit that's more than a prep for art, it's something I've always done, but then, so is art making....so...I guess, that explains that. The art that I do is not so much a thing I do to impress or capitalize off of. If it's something that I "pull out from the depths of my soul", then I guess I must've expected more, because it doesn't feel that way to me.There's no big meaning attached to most of it and it's not anywhere near a "statement". It ain't no picnic, neither. Making art is something I feel more and more like I do because I know that's what I should be doing. It's like I already know what I have to do with this life. It's not a thing that always fills me with joy and hope and self confidence. Well, save that first hour or two upon completion. Sometimes that carries on for days or weeks. It is a need. The art has a hunger. It has found a host organism in me with which to become realized, and It takes me with It because one day I looked right in It's eye. It is it's own life form, sometimes I think. It needs to be fed on a consistent basis a strict diet of pretty waste, sonic diffusion, chemical indulgence, perversion, work, cryptic human interaction, the idea of love, the acceptance of loss, and stinking materials to play in. At times I feel I have no direction in this relationship. That's when it gets really interesting and I love that the most , I think because it's a let-go, just for a while.It's becoming more of me, Dean, as the parasite on the larger host Art organism, sometimes. It's a symbiotic cycle. I love to make the art I do because it usually starts as a challenge to myself, like can I do that? Then there it is. bang bang. Still hungry. bang. Shit gotta go to work. Fuck. What I lack is the discipline and the time away from everything to work on something substantial rather than stupid money. But it take me hours just to get going and then fluid in the studio. I need to learn more about the beast art so I can control it's effect on me. Otherwise I'd be content the rest of my life living paycheck to paycheck, selling all my best work for rent and alcohol, never establishing myself as an artist, and allowing the image to completely dominate my every thought. I can't take that risk. I digress...... I love sculpture, especially kieth simpson's work, and my friend, keri marion's. My favorite local artists are mel mccuddin, phil bailey, e.l. stewart, james st. george, dan spalding, katherine brower, troy webber, jeremy vermillion,& owen renquist. My favorite artist in general: Albrecht Druer, Michealangelo Mirisi de Carravagio, Peter Paul Ruebans, Rodan, Egon Shiele, Francis Bacon (40s-50s), Lucian Frued, Artemisia Gentileschii, Rafael, Francisco Goya, Kathe Kollowitz, Ed and Nancy Reddin Kienholz ( only the most impactful art Iv'e ever seen...) Derek Hess, Marcel Duchamp, um.... I make a lot of art. The art is very rad. In my house i listen to a lot of music, the music is very loud.I watch a lot of movies and I do a lot of laundry and dishes then i spend the rest of my waking life.............at work.
More active artists in Portland. I moved into Portland early Dec. and im already in love with the city.I moved down here to make better art. What i do is rad and has been very exciting and at times lucrative, but there's a much larger art-force in this city, and i really want to collaborate with other artists to make big, fuckoff nasty beautiful, seedy art you cant stop staring at. I do alright alone, but if you wanna hook it up, just look it up. I'd like to meet more people that aren't established artists but believe in themselves enough to show and keep making artwork. What i'd really like to do is get involved in a gallery with some people who are serious about investing their money and donating their time to an unestabished badass gallery that will seriously draw attention to the unstoppable bad-ass art that we all make, but can't seem to get shown outside of our friends bars and cafes. Something else that my friend Rose and i were talking about doing was starting up a critique group. Or a very relaxed "class", totally informal, at someone's house or something in which we collaborate ideas and exchange constructive and positive criticism toward our works. We seem convinced, so far, that this kind of organized, somewhat disciplined approach to community would benefit the art that we all do. The feedback generated from the very best of comrades creating together,... well, it just does wonders for the soul. The hardest part would be, of course, rounding up the posse. Promises of beer and material would no doubt be heard, as if that's a problem. We could do like 1 or 2 pieces for the month and meet twice or something like that. The materials would just appear, as they always do, outta the fuckin blue, and we could really help move each other along, I think. Squid stuffed with shrimp stuffed with mussels.
.....deep sigh..........................ok. Well, let me just start by saying that spokane is blessed to have such fine metal. We really have it good thanks to fuckin pathos, rutah and doomlit. And everytime i hear Everything Beautiful they get better and better. Right now im listening to a lot of SWANS. The SWANS are DEAD. soooo much SWANS! Skinny Puppy, Ministry, SUNN 0))) Om, Grails, Ocean, Graves At Sea, DirtyThree, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Iggy Pop, Stooges, Butthole Surfers, The GITS, Nile, Last of the Jaunitas, LeForce, Pelican, Wolves In The Throneroom, Sleep, Kylesa, Neurosis, Jarboe, SKaRP, Big business, MELVINS, High on fire, pORn, LaCephale?, of couse TOOL, The Ax, any grinding crusty deathydoomdom will suffice. Anyway, it all starts with the metal and it pretty much ends with the metal. I have huge real estate in my heart for Tom Waits, Tom Waits, Tom Waits, tho. Just got the Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards set! I've been gathering his dust since 98 .Also lots and lots of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey,The Birthday Party, She wants Revenge, . Some Leonard Cohen helps, as well as Tons of SONIC YOUTH!!! That's some of the most impactful music i can ever imagine. Supreme Hails to Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Lee Renaldo, Steve Shelley and Jim O'Rourke! Thank you so much! I grew up on really bad Zoo FM radio in the 80's and lots of Iron Maiden and Megadeth, Anthrax, Mr. Bungle, Jane's Addiction, fuckin Metallica, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, etc...... But I really just love all kinds of music. I like dark classical and operas, dramatic scores from Angelo Badalamenti. Delta blues, Robert Johnson, Muddy Water, and John Lee Hooker, especially. Duke Ellington,Ragtime jazz, be bop jazz.....goes right into hip hop like ANTICON ANTICON ANTICON Themselves, Restiform Bodies, Alias. Sole, Why?, Jel, Sage Francis, Pretty much all of any anticon production, especially dose one and sole(fish!). Not to forget Ghostface Killa, the RZA, the GZA, Ol Dirty; the Entire WU-Tang Clan, Dr. Dre., Snoop, Too Short, Kool Keith, and all his affiliates and aliases....,Motha Fuckin Gangsta Shit like GOODY MOB, Nas, Outkast, Beanie Seagle, Mobb Deep. And Cool shit like Tribe Called Quest, Kool Kieth, Analog Brothers, Ice Cube..., and I can always do cool shit with CRASS, my ultimate definition of true punk rock.........always has been...............always will be. Jimmy. What was it like to see the face of your own stability suddenly look away leaving you with the dead and hopeless? Eleven and she was gone. Eleven is when we waved good-bye. Eleven is standing still, waiting for me to free him by coming home. Moving me with a sound. Opening me within a gesture. Drawing me down and in, showing me where it all began, Eleven. It took so long to realize that you hold the light that's been leading me back home. Under a dead Ohio sky, defending his light, and wondering... where the hell have I been? Sleeping, lost, and numb. So glad that I have found you. I am wide awake and heading home. Hold your light, Eleven. Lead me through each gentle step by step by inch by loaded memory. I'll move to heal as soon as pain allows so we can reunite and both move on together. Hold your light, eleven. Lead me through each gentle step by step by inch by loaded memory 'till one and one are one, eleven, so glow, child, glow. I'm heading back home.
DAVID LYNCH DAVID LYNCH DAVID LYNCH LYNCH LYNCH LYNCH LYNCH His films have been following me around since I was a kid watching the Elephant Man over and over again. Then seeing Wild At Heart, Blue Velvet and Eraserhead. Superb. Moving Paintings. Stanley Kubrick is another favorite film maker. I love the Coen Brothers and the Hughes Brothers, David Fincher, Wes Anderson. Tony Scott. DePalma. I really like how there's another awesome zombie scare sweeping the globe. I think Rob Zombie's zombies zombie zombie. They're so zombie. The Devil's Rejects is , i think, one of the best multi layered family power grab films ever made. The violence only exploits the intensity of such rivalry. The whole family structure is crumbling within them and the "law"s vendetta is even more sadistic than the family's. Also, the film, North Fork, is worth a second look. Jim Jarmusch's work gives me a hard on. DOWN BY LAW just re-released by the criterion. Get it. NOW. Mystery Train, Ghost Dog,(my nigga), Broken Flowers, DEAD MAN, bitches. Lots of Alfred Hitchcock lately. i dont know. Tim Burton, Tim Robbins, Clint Eastwood flicks, Sam Raimey, Scorsese, Stone, Paul Thomas anderson, Richard Kelly, Akira Kuwosawa, almost any old rogue samurai movie. to name a few of my favorite things.
Twin Peaks,The X-files, The Simpsons,the Tick, Ren&Stimpy, Southpark, Chappelle's Show, Jeopardy, any murder mystery docudrama ( im a sucker for that shit)serial killer bios,Animal Planet,Natural Disaster docudramas, anything ancient history, anyhting that deals with the mass extinction and depopulation of the human species. Im a sucker for depopulation.
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