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A little bling, a little spark, and voila it’s light, the light bulb, a Promethean kind of independence from the paternal sun, its friendship and tyranny, which we know but perhaps we don’t too often contemplate as there just doesn’t seem much reason to meditate on what is so taken for granted as to be mundane, but still we know it as a Promethean object, a gift of fire, of independence, igniting thought, ideas, the cartoon figure is perplexed and fishing about the dark of the mind when inspiration flashes and we know what the light bulb appearing over the cartoon figure’s head means, it is illumination and the resolving of at least a portion of a puzzle.
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Southwest Seekers – The Cover Up Cafe
Digital painting
30 by 18.70 in
J Kearns 2007
Can be viewed larger on the art pages.
Posted this back in September of 2007 but am putting it again as a kind of stickie for the time being, while I continue inchworm writing away on the new novel (in which a UFO makes an appearance). During this time, I occasionally get some work on photos done, but none on any new art for the time being.
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Appreciation is extended to Intergalactic Stock whose stock I used as reference for the sky-gazing model.
Hipstamatic iPhone capture run through Lo-mob app.
iPhone Hipstamatic capture run through Lo-mob app.
Those three dots. All one needs to give the impression of a face. No one wonders, “What’s that supposed to be?” Everyone immediately recognizes the glyph as a face. The lower dot may be a nose or a mouth. Doesn’t matter. It’s a face.
This is actually a cute little night light from Ikea that glows green. It’s a pain in that rather than having a simple wall cord or requiring batteries it instead has its very own special charger that works for nothing but it. By some miracle we’ve managed to keep track of the charger for several years but when it is eventually lost the little guy will dark, never to illumine again.
The Sphinx
Ink on paper
I used to work in ink, and this is one of the few old inks of mine that I’ve managed to hold onto all these years. Would have done this some time in the mid 80s. Is in color but I like this black and white capture of it on the iPhone with the Hipstamatic app.
I still may add a few photos. I still may take out a few photos. This project is probably pretty well over. So much of it was in a spirit of collaboration with H.o.p. and over the past couple of years we have done very very few of these because instead of dressing himself up or doing activities of which he wanted me to take photos, he was himself taking photos of all the things he was doing. This was intended to be a natural process and I didn’t want to force the issue. I never had said to H.o.p., “OK, now you do such and such and I’ll take photos.”
Link to The Child Experiments pages at the art website
2009 December Mountain Road
1958 Disney cartoon about the future magic highway has its depressing moments
December 2nd, 2009 |Posted In: General
This 1958 Disney cartoon envisioned all kinds of fun things about the magic highways of the future. The weirdly graphic smear on the road, however, is deriving no more enjoyment from any of them. Thanks, Disney!
