The Finders & Keepers Of Simple Logic

4 New Works @ Doo Gallery's Tonight
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- Dualis Trepidare
- Dualis Resolvere
- Asundered Transmogrification
- Candied Crickets
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What a shitty shitty day... raining the whole thing thru. Not a great turnout at the show this evening... ohh well. Bad weather and halloween parties what can you do. Plus I didn't do any promotion myself really. But true to her character, Steph came out early and hung out for a bit in support even though we were like the only 2 there... ha. No one I knew came out. And while there were not many people I must admit I had a good time and met a few intersting folks that might work well in the comic book character show me and Matt Lane Harris are planning. Other than that... nada. Well I did purchase a piece from the show... something I never do, especially being as poor as I am right now. But it was only $100 and it made me smile, so I looked in my wallet, saw the hundred I had and plunkered it down.

The Apathy Of The Police Force

My Greatest Pains And Prisons I Create Myself

Working on the Wendy paintings all this morning. Just finished my prepatory drawings for the figures in each work. I'm going to refine them to their final state. I need to let the 1 SPOT dry over night. But I can still prepare transfers and cut the stencil and paint them onto the boxes tomorrow. Each character about 4" tall.

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I'm now moving onto the Casper work.
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The entire Casper work evolved as the day progessed. I've changed the original orientation of the piece from vertical to full horizontal. I'm also building out my own Casper in 3-D to come out of the center of the compostion. I still have to build out the shoulder portion and add some hands. I'll finish the character off in a clean 1 SPOT white gloss enamel.
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I'm Gonna Give You Straight The About

The belly of the 2 beasts - her entrails and vitals. Normally I'd finish off the interiors in black to finsih off the works. But seeing as how the lighting elements have a chance to heat up a bit too much in their enclosed casing i didn't want to add to the problem. So the basic structures and electrical rigging are done on both works. The next step is to start adding the Wendy comic book pages and begin the process of painting them out with a clean red coat of 1 SHOT lettering enamel.
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Too Big - Too Heavy - Too Small

Sat outside all day/night long yesterday, rereading Hirst's 'On The Way To Work'. Burned a large amount scrape wood, a few old paintings that i really was tired of looking at. But I pretty much just wrapped myself up in some warm cloths a raced the the 300 page book of interviews, wrapping up with it around 1AM. Plus I ran out of wood... ohh well.
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Today I'm workig on a few interesting pieces for the upcoming show. Details on it later today. The house smells wonderful today. I nice smoked/wood smell.
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So here's a quick glimpse at the other piece, well actually 2 twin pieces I'm also doing for Doo gallery. They are gonna be really awesome. It's another lighted work. It's 2 pieces @ 9" x 21" x 7" (22.9cm x 53.3cm x 17.8cm). They both have an eerie red glow coming from all sides, as the works rest about 1" off of the walls surface. They will also eminate a strange fog from the guts as well, I'll use dry ice for that. No clunky expensive fog machines. The entire work is a Wendy the Witch piece. Gloss red Wendy's all round and a unique Wendy painted in the center of each. Similar to the metal Jughead panel I did for Barker recently. They are gonna look u'ber cool all lit up in the gallery.
I'm also working on a simple Casper the Friendly Ghost work as well. It measures 5.5" x 35" x 1.5" (14cm x 89cm x 3.8cm). It's a reassembled shredder work with Casper comic strip framed edges. it's not a priority, but shouldn't take to long to produce.

It Lives In The Smallest Parts of Us

And what does saturday bring us... more dead crickets of course. Sitting around nwatch horror films as has been the norm all month long. Come tomthink of it, I've been watching almost exclusivly horror films for the past 4 months. Ohh well. This morning it's Carpenters 'Prince of Darkness'. I like my horror mixed with a little physics. Of course I wish this film had been made a little better and the script had more math and theory to it, but I still love this film.
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Crickets all around... crickets all around. Each of these pieces has a total of 100 crickets on them. At first glace you wouldn't think there are that many, but you can totally count them there. Strange enough. It just doesn't appear that there are that many for some reason. There are 530 candy corns on the works, which because of there mass may acount for the reason the crickets volume does not seem so great. I've already wrapped up 2 of the works and will have the third finished this evening.


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Sushi later this evening... maybe even some cricket sushi. Ya never know.

Erase The Fear & Balance A Tear

OPENING TONIGHT:
Thomas Arthur Schaefer @

If your ass is in Dallas... you should be there!
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TEXT MESSAGES FROM THE SHOW

JENNY: I just bought a great piece from bones
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JENNY: Yup. Your work has been gAWKED at and i have you on.
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BARKER: I forgot to tell u i lost ur sticks. Oops. I sorry. Its what livin out ur car will do.
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BARKER: This very cute girl says ur brilliant & creepy. What a compliment!
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BARKER: I just met this artist from atl.
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BARKER: ? Doug. Redblood gallery yo yo gallery
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JENNY: I did your deed... They could have turned out better... But it is crowded
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Cricket shoping today. Picked up 300 of them...3 full bags. Of course the questions... what do you need so many for. Afterward I stopped at some shitty 'Halloween Superstore'... bullshit, they had nothing of interest. Of course some cock-sucker though it would be interesting to side swipe the front of my car while I was in the store. Thanks you asshole sitting in his white van. Motherfucker!! Dents, scratches, etc.
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My version of the television show 'Six Feet Under'. After you euthanize these crickets, you have to one by one move their limbs back into position. If you don't do this the painting ends up looking like a thing with crickets glued to it. But when you get the legs right suddenly the work takes on a life like appearance and the damn little suckers look like they are crawling all over each other. Just like they do in real life. And that's one of the keys to the work, not only should they be positioned correctly but they need to crawl over each other and be in mass. If you can do that, then you can make a really creepy painting.
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