mar 11

squir_03.jpg

Pretty much the full drawing: 30 x 44″and ink on paper, as usual. The drawings this size really do not translate well into jpeg format.

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20 Responses to “mar 11”

  1. Alina
    March 11th, 2008 17:08
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    Looking at this drawing does make me want to see it up close and personal for sure… I’m eager to hear more about the diseases you are addressing as well… such rich subtext…

  2. Joan
    March 11th, 2008 20:47
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    Catherine, it actually looks quite lovely online; not as wonderful as the original drawing but I think it translated better than you thought. Thank you for another wonderful workshop. Joan

  3. Catherine
    March 12th, 2008 11:49
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    Thanks Joan!

  4. Jed
    March 12th, 2008 17:01
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    The title of your next show should be “Victims and Vectors”.

  5. Mark Lynch
    March 13th, 2008 09:50
    5

    ah, the bulging quivering cheeks…always in motion..the dead doll-like eyes, black as an adder’s gall……the hairy lip hiding the dull yellow-brown razor-sharp incisors…and those tiny hands…disturbingly unhuman, but still able to do you up a treat…and those really cute ears. Throw him a peanut…wait, I forgot the peanuts…quick! run for your life!

  6. Jed
    March 13th, 2008 11:26
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    STOP THAT!! STOP EVERYTHING!! THERE WILL BE NO SINGING ‘ERE!! BLYME, I”LL ‘AVE UR ‘EAD MATE>>> (all that should be read in the color “blue”)

    scuse me…. Did someone say “NNI”?

  7. Alina
    March 13th, 2008 11:26
    7

    The ears are ridiculously cute!

  8. Mark Lynch
    March 13th, 2008 13:23
    8

    National Nanotechnology Initiative?

    (even smaller hands and ears, I mean really minute.. Lilliputian…”wee” even)

  9. Catherine
    March 13th, 2008 13:56
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    ok - what’s NNI?

    AND: should I draw in the vignetting - cause it looks really cool - but is it too literal/historical? If anyone wishes to, please opine (scuirine) away…

  10. Alina
    March 13th, 2008 16:23
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    hmmm… to vignette or not to vignette…
    I’d say that your photograph that vignetted the drawing is another series you could include in a show… have your drawings on one wall as part of a show and maybe include a photography series of the drawings with the vignetteing and framed like daguerreotypes on another wall? Just suggestions of course…

  11. Mark Lynch
    March 13th, 2008 16:58
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    ambiguity is next to godliness.

  12. Mark Lynch
    March 13th, 2008 16:58
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    Always use a vinegrette sparingly.

  13. Jed
    March 13th, 2008 17:29
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    What she/he said.
    smaller drawings—new series—mostly portraits—some landscapes—can become gimicky

  14. Catherine
    March 13th, 2008 17:49
    14

    I hate gimmicky… but love my vinaigrette…

  15. Mark Lynch
    March 13th, 2008 18:47
    15

    Holy Short Attention Span Theatre, DNA is the eptimome, the mascot even, of gimmicky. How can you hate DNA? Now gimcrackery, that’s another story.

    Ah, Banarama!

  16. Alina
    March 13th, 2008 20:55
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    Come to think of it… after looking up daguerreotypes on google image, I can see how that wouldn’t really work for your comtemporary approach… I got carried away with the vintage image of it in my mind… maybe a little to retro.

  17. Catherine
    March 14th, 2008 13:33
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    Bananarama? Do expound. I’m trying to avoid Google for one day. Which is near impossible, considering I like it better than Bim Jeam.

  18. Mark Lynch
    March 14th, 2008 21:11
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    Bananarama: As is typical, I was multitasking:

    1. transcribing 80 years worth of records into material for my book on the Blackstone Corridor (amazingly tiresome, which is why I was posting here: I HAD to break often to stay awake/sane)

    2. On one break: Just saw one of the Bananarama “babes” on TV: come to find out she is married to the “other half” of WHAM! (choose life) and says he just drinks beer all the time, while she looks and sounds like some uppity crusty Brit country dame. Cruel Summer indeed!

    3.So I put on Bananarama (they’re cover of VENUS)on the PC

    4. At tht moment, while I was writing the post to you above, I heard (via e-mail) that I got an interview booked with PETER CHAPMAN of the FINANCIAL TIMES, who just wrote a book titled:
    “BANANAS: HOW THE UNITED FRUIT COMPANY SHAPED THE WORLD.

    And VOILA! Bananarama: the synchronous event.
    And speaking of gimmicks: BANANARAMA was a clssic Brit pop group of the early 80s. Like Britains answer to the Go-Gos.

    Mark

  19. Catherine
    March 15th, 2008 10:58
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    BANANARAMA IS MARRIED TO WHAM????

  20. Mark Lynch
    March 15th, 2008 17:45
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    Well, one of BANANARAMA (Keren Woodward) is married to one of WHAM! (Andrew Ridgely), I guess making a WHAMARAMA. Listening to her talk, I couldn’t tell if she was being droll or actually ready for Andrew to finally “grow up” before she goes-goes.

    Andy’s main reason for living is SAS: “SURFERS AGAINST SEWAGE”. In the words of Jack Paar: “I kid you not.”

    Mark

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