New Zealand

I am now pretty settled in my home here in New Zealand. I've gotten my permanent residency and I feel settled and comfortable. If you have wondered why I haven't created any new art lately well then you are in good company for I am wondering the same thing myself. I might be making a transition to the written word is my only excuse and if you know me at all it is probably more for my comments than my pictures.

Not understanding is better than the alternative...

One of the people that I miss.

is one of those people that makes one rethink how they approach art. At first glance one might think his work is frivolous or inconsequential and yet if you look at the breadth of his gallery one sees something far more interesting and deep than the creations of a simple mind. Mopti is one of those people that I think about often. His vision is not easily taken from me, I love how kinetic and boisterous his creations are. He is witty and experimental in the best senses. Pictures of New York become tapestries of light and texture. Rain becomes an element and time slows down only for the poles and posts passed by by frenetic New Yorkers. A landscape with blooming clouds becomes a backdrop for a full figured nude study. I can feel his smile and enjoyment from the other side of these creations and I marvel at his ease of photographic techniques.

I do not know what has become of Jean-Marc Barbier or his friends. I do know he had rather serious brain surgery not that long ago, but as there has been no news for quite a while now I fear the worst. Mopti was a good friend when I first came to DA and he is still in my mind often. If you get the chance do take a look at his rather unique gallery.

Not understanding is better than the alternative...

Outta here

Well this is it for the most part. I'm packing up my computer in a couple of minutes and then I'm pretty much outta here. House is still in escrow but I have to get moving now. So I'm packing up and getting stuff done. I'll probably drop by here, but it won't be on my computer anymore. booo. So if I don't get back to you soon you'll know why.

to all

Not understanding is better than the alternative...

I'm Hot!

Today was another blazing hot day here in Southern California and boy is it weird thinking about freezing my ass off in New Zealand. I purchased an interesting book on down sizing one's lifestyle today called "Affluenza," which is based off a television series, it really struck home for me. One of the things I'm trying to get away from is this consumer oriented pressure that seems to envelope me at every turn. I'm hoping that it will be easier to just sell a lot of my junk that's weighing me down and start over. Consumption seems to me like a disease that has infected every aspect of my life and I'm tired of it.

I saw my Mother for the first time in many years, I was giving her a piece of art and some furniture that belonged to her. I felt bad about not talking with her for so long, I'm a bastard in many ways, being hard headed seems to come naturally to me. For me the absolute high light was when she told me that she thinks George W. Bush is a bad president and yet when I pressed her she said she would vote for Bush over Gore or Kerry all over again. I mean what does it take? I'm at logger heads as to what the logic of that kind of thinking is. But anyway it was nice to get some more good Sushi and it was nice to tell her that I loved her.

I'm looking forward to getting the last box packed here and selling the cars, then I will be home free and ready to go to the promised land.




Not understanding is better than the alternative...

Going Global

The house is sold, the car is sold, I quit my job and I'm ready to leave. My last day is July 1st and then selling some odds and ends like my coffee grinder (sob) and then I'm off to see the wizard on the other side of the world. I feel alive for the first time in a while. I probably won't be posting much in the coming months until things calm down a bit.

Not understanding is better than the alternative...