Saturday, June 21, 2008

Ten minutes after three

Just to make things perfectly clear, I live in a village of 20,000 people. Painter/Bloggers are hard to come by. Consequently, it was obvious that when Sarah Burns sent me an email announcement about her art opening at Weisinger's, I was at least going to make a brief visit. I handed the camera over to my seven year old and I now regret my blossoming paunch more than my variegated cut-offs. Shit, I can even take pride in my potential Beakerness. It is that damn paunch eruption that has my hands behind my back at a winery no less. Anyway, I think Sarah has potential. I'd buy this piece if I could: Not only is the painting essentially set in my backyard, it reminds me of that prick William Wray.I can call William a prick, because he has called me one. The thing is, the whole genre of representation freaks me out. I can't offer it anything. The steepness of Sarah's hill is daunting. Especially for someone like me who is groping in the valley.


Steven LaRose, Nature's Soft Nurse, 2008
Acrylic and oil on wood panel, 11.75 x 10.25 inches

12 comments:

Tracy said...

We all have different purpose, hon. You know that.

Carla said...

great post

Ms. Br4ZiL said...

Man, I love that graph- will look more into that.

Steven LaRose said...

My paunch is my purpose?

Tracy said...
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Carla said...

You call that a paunch? Oregon must have different standards from Indiana.

Ms. Br4ZiL said...

yeah Id say the bad shorts and weird expression are way worse than the paunch.

sarahfburns said...

so we both have slight paunches, and my eyes are never open,

thanks for coming, you're a fantastic artist. I'm freaked out by most things not representational and I adore your work. so present and dreamlike. I hope that painting doesn't sell so we can trade.

and william wray is kind of a prick, but his work is good. He's a lot like my friend Ben Fenske - www.grenninggallery.com

CAP said...

That graph is so complex. Have you got anything simpler?

Steven LaRose said...

Because I can't seem to write or read without the use of emoticons, this comment is for both Tracy and cap:

On the eleven inch axis of a standard piece of paper, draw a straight line with arrowheads at each end. Label one extreme "Abstraction" and the other "Representation". Pick up the paper at these labels and bring them together to form a cylinder. For extended enjoyment use tape.

(Caution: If you bring this to a party, avoid the person flaunting their Mobius Strip).



. . . "weird expression"?

Ms. Br4ZiL said...

Sorry! I was just trying to distract you from your paunch. Expression is cute actually.

Bill Gusky said...

Nice!