New incarnation each lustrum. Untrained/unframed/intuitive/primitive/brute
artist...can't control the outcomes, I just follow the accidents. Sometimes
the magic works -- once in a thousand pictures. I remember practicing
drawing with my eyes closed when I was little. Still do, the whole drawing
in 1 or 2 lines. Almost all I do is ink line drawings directly onto the page.
Now trying color using my B&W drawings like coloring books.
(Very) High school in late 1960's-ʼ71: my amour was an art major at the
state uni so I hung out with artists, contributed to the local underground
comix (Girl Cartoonist !!) and art mag -- .. later modeled at art colleges,
listened to strolling profs critique student work as I stood immobile in
stress positions (yes-- it is very painful, like burning lava amassed in
your knees) -- occasionally a prof'd come up, indicate a spot on, for
instance, my shoulder blade and cry "Look what's happening here!" --
as if a riot were breaking out on my clavicle.
Tarot cards : Drew my own , now pho'shopping them; this 4 of Cups ,
ex.. I've learned tricks from pho'shop filters. etc. that Iʼm trying out in
originals so I can skip the computer. ssA? Computer art FX
supposed to imitate "real" art, not vice versa?
I travel/work globally. Hard-earned MA in Forensic Linguistics, teach
English my way -- just got back from a university post in Beijing...
what a great incarnation that was! Rarely have sold art but for
puppets w/ Uncle Scam. Some painted puppet faces are on AMP
(http://pluginamp.com/network/image/tid/142);all look somehow
traumatized.
I write absurd/surreal short stories; speak and read Spanish: dream
of translating Javier Marias novels...next incarnation...
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