put down the beer and do the dishes

'I have the cutest dog' with 'Rumblings of activity...' , 05022012

The Sorcerer, 2011, David Titterington
http://davidtitterington.blogspot.com/

This quote was taken from David’s website:   ”I’m doing this large painting [...] with dual-sex imagery, integral spirituality, and alchemical hermaphroditism.  On stage is a mythic creature made of van Eyck’s Sheep- Christ, The Sorcerer, Maiastra, and prehistoric Goddess figurines, moonwalking while giving life-blood to the world (a very “Western” scene). When the performance is over, the mythical phallic creature goes back into the solid, red box – yonic and vaginal. Dandelions at the bottom are also directly from the Ghent Altarpiece…”

MOONWALKING is the important take away from all this.

Hopefully it won’t be another four months before my next post.

I wish that bit-o-knowledge had popped into my head before I lost the tip of my finger.  Oh well, those tomato plants will have a bit of me to feed upon, and then I’ll eat them.  It’s the circle of life…

Ouch!

It is not very often that I can find a place willing, and with room, to display Trapped In Our Maladroit Mire so I’m very excited that it gets to see the light of day again.  I will also have some of my smaller pieces from the same series on display.

A total of four outstanding artists that use printmaking as their primary medium will be on display.  The opening reception will be July 22 at 5 – 7pm.  I, along with several of the other artists, will be giving an artist talk and I will post the time & location once it has been finalized. Here is a peek at the three new pieces for this show:

Being entombed in its final resting place of glass and metal...

Come to the show and see this whole triptych as it should be...on a wall.

Opiate for the Masses (although meth is not an opiate, hopefully you catch my drift)

Thinking of the documentary Jesus Camp, I worry for the children that get so deeply hooked on such an intense ideology.  Seems to me they are walking a very fine tight rope.  It’s not difficult to foresee various psychological and spiritual traumas arising when these children experience the curve balls that longevity inevitably throws at the living.  Such a rigid doctrine of belief  leaves little wiggle room to accept and process countless things in this world.  Things that are more and more unavoidable as the interconnectedness of society increases.  They either struggle with reconciling the differences between what they’ve been taught and what they experience or reach a dead end and close their minds to a wider perspective.  Now obviously I’m projecting a lot into this ironic little image; I’m sure this is a scenic road to a very nice Methodist Church Camp that helps kiddos learn to experience nature and social camaraderie, etc.  However, it does provide pause to think about the potentially negative effect our projected ideals have upon the supple minds of children.  Rather than enforcers, lets be guides to support and strengthen their own ideological development because it’s surely not ‘one-size-fits-all’.

…and i’m not sure how this post got to here from where it started (I should curb my meth use)… Cheerio!