This is the painting that will bedisplayed at teh Dallas Bathouse Cultural Center. The opening reception is February 9th 7-9.....i was talking to my father today about it....i have been trying to figure out what my take is on the whole art thing.....
i was trained to believe that art has to be extremely cerebral and you must suffer through it in some sort of way for it to actually be art.....
And in all honesty...the last three peices that have been displayed...have been the easiest things have ever made in my life....and i have been feeling guilty about it.....I told my father this...because iknew he would understand...
to this he said, " rememer Picasso's bull? how he stuck some handle bars on a bike seat and it was accepted....do you think he suffered through that? There is no way he could have...and yet, there it is..published and out there for the world to see and drool over.... What might seem easey and simplistic to you, may not be so to others...you are able to see things and make things the rest of us only wish we could make see and do.....if someone is giving you and opportunity to create things that come easily to you...GO WITH IT! you are too old to concern youself with angst and suffereing to justify your work....."
and he is right....I am of an age where life should only be about joy and the joy of creating...
and this is theapproach i hope to adopt from now on.....
i am not out to begin some new genre.....to take the art world by storm.....i am simply here to create.....
it is something i have loved doing since birth....and I should continue to do that...love it....enjoy it...and embrace it...
the suffering part is over....
i only want to smile when i create from now on....
