Visited Ryan

After I finished working today as an intern for Diana Cooper I headed over to my old friend Ryan's side of town, and we ate dinner at a diner and bullshited. I had an "Italiano" panini with curly fries with a diet coke, and lemon merange pie for desert, and we talked about publishing a small book. The waitress was incredibly rude and funny, and started yelling at the cooks at one point that they could not TALK TO HER LIKE THAT, LIKE SHE IS SOME KIND ON AN ANIMAL! I had some ideas, but I think he has more but wasn't letting on to all of them, but we are meeting again in two weeks with drawings and I think the plot will thicken. He showed me a bunch of websites of really great small presses, and some french ones, which I think is interesting because I like to try and translate the words and the pictures at the same time and it makes it more of a fun game, like French small press sudoku.

It was good to see Ryan and bounce ideas off him. It reminded me of Iowa, but Brooklyn lends a certain gravity to the actions of artists. So I had fun just because I like being in Brooklyn and seeing all the interesting people.

Cinders Gallery, and some Unstructured Thoughts

I found a gallery online, it is physically located in Brooklyn (Williamsburg), I am going to go and check it out. Here is the website. The name of the place is Cinders Gallery.



I found them through Kevin Hooyman's website.



They have a lot of drawing and self-published books on their website, and that's the two things I like best! They also have a links section with links to other galleries, artists, bands, and random NYC stuff the people who run the gallery like and want to tell you about.



My new work:

Unstructured thoughts:
I have two more new, new drawings (newer then the one above), but they are waiting on some finishing touches. I made them with red acrylic on gray/blue paper, and I painted a second middle tone and some highlights into them with a pale gray blue and a whitish gray blue. The drawings are going to continue to play with the idea of living dead. In the sense that when Freud wrote about the uncanny, and said that something uncanny is something that you can't tell if it's dead or alive, that's why I like zombies. I like zombies because they are somewhere between living and dead, there is a strong zombie cultural context from movies and Halloween, and that context allows me to be as playful as I want when constructing the identity of my femme fatales (Zombie girls). A lot of room to be creative, and easy to find source material, mixed with an interesting contemporary context, and the ability to play with identity, all lead to an exciting mix for me when I am drawing these. I am also interested in Zen buddhism, and the lyrics from Tom Waits songs, and they enter into the mix somehow. I have been immersing myself in self-published books lately, and that is also entering into my aesthetic, and I think I am going to end up being a pretty major source for either publishing or distribution of small edition art books.

You can see more of my art on www.diamondinyourmind.com and www.lesoiseauparle.com