Hello, 12 x 12 inches, mixed media on paper
Here's my contribution to Gallery Neptune's Cupidity show. I took an "I saw you" ad:
V.P. don't know if you remember but I talked to you saturday and complemented your bike (sounded dumb, I know, but I didn't know what else to say) I Really like your look, distinguished (I like older guys). I hope I didn't stun you (ha!). Still have your card, but don't really think I get it and theres no number. Maybe you can explain to me over a nice candellight dinner. L.S.
Then I made the above collage based on it. Then I sent Roger Noyes the image (but not the original ad) and he wrote a new, fictional ad:
V.P.: Remember me? I was but a waif, left astray in the scrappy wayside alleys of northern Istanbul. Not a word of Turkish did I know, nor a soul in friendship, until you spotted me, a child weeping in the dust beside a broken bicycle. You must remember it, no? Or is kindness so ordinary a part of your nature that the beneficiary alone will bear its extraordinary memory? Am I to remain forever a hapless victim of unselfconscious good? Please let yourself remember how, kneeling in the dirt to loop the wild chain, you rebuked the dealers for inventing prices they would not let me afford. My work here is almost finished. I must see you again before I leave. You gave me your card, but I do not dare follow the address. I know it is not a place for such as me.
This was a really weird and fun way to make a piece...
2 comments:
hey warren, this looks really good! i love the concept and the execution, Roger's text was a perfect complement to your visuals.
disturbed bycycle, no doubt. Great for bumpy roads, though. Kind of like mogul skiing. or cross-country over many fallen logs. your web site is phenomenal.
I especially liked reading your self-critique. Mais non, perhaps you're too hard on yourself. I like the way you see your work as growing, and as a learning experience. More of us artistes would benefit from such incisive analysis. Your drawings of V. are great - not always trying to make her pretty. I especially like the green marker pen drawing. Come to think of it, your truth-telling in drawing her is much like that in all your work. Lincoln would laud your Honesty. Another admirable drawing trait - no matter how humorous your drawing, there is much dignity in it. You reveal yourself and take us into your world.
The large drawings help in understanding your work. Scale helps see things not always easily visible in the small ones.
Enough Pap.
The Papster, soon to see V of Virginia.
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