Vladimir Jones (Le Boxer) Series 2009

Vladimir Jones             Le Boxer Series 2009

Skipfolio: New drawings: just a glimpse of what I'm workin' with since I moved into the studio fulltime to work. I leave behind the four large drawings(4'w x 5'h) Las Meninas 2009 at the house... beautiful, exotic, moody female figures posed like stylish, well kept, Storyville whores or Deltas having tea in the dappled light coming through the glass of our florida room. The last week has infused these latest drawings of Super-hyped Superheroes with a Funky, Fierce, SweetbackBadass raw display of the hurt I felt leaving the house yet again. Putting my hands up, bobbing and weaving, punching, jabbing, throwing some shit off...Life as Art...this is what i got for the week.

Not Because You Asked

Going through, coming out of the desert, like into a new land, 30 years on the cusp of greatness. Then here comes you. Just like the whispers promised you would...someday.
Today...
an angel come back to me... after all this time,
a healing taking place as we re-enter each others' orbit.
a caution of lust, even though that's where we used to really groove together...so I see that and recognize that what was once there, is no mo'...
Looking to something new, if there is anything there on another level. What I recognized first in her, there in the Beginning... is yet her still... somewhere under the scars of the loves, the lies and the betrayals collected over the years searching for the Dreams we dreamed of as kids talking on the phone well into the night.

Happy Father's Day

Hey, Dad,

I recognize that whatever you want, you already have,... or can get it! (Hallelujah!..)

So I offer this pearl of great price,
knowing and believing that you are well on this blessed day.


On this day, I recognise you, and acknowledge you, and thank you
for who you are and all you represent.

I recognize you for your unique ways and manner, for the things you stand for...and what you won't tolerate.

I recognize you for what you have done for the life and love of your wife and your generation.

I recognize you, Dad, for the example of responsibility and a warm humor.

I recognize you as a testimony to the graceful power of the right tone and proper attitude.

I recognize you for your walk, and your willingness to be contrary even if you got to stand alone.

I recognize you for doing what you got to do, when you got to do it.

I recognize you most especially this day as the one who paved away
for me to reach this day, just in time to say...

I love you...


...So how much sleep do you think Barnes and Glover are gonna get thinking about tomorrow?
and what about El Tigre...seven shots behind with 11 to play at a soaked Bethpage Black, he has never won a tournament trailing by more than eight going into the final round...so is Tiger still in the hunt?

For Sydney

"what we have, girl, is tantric...lapiz lazuli...
even though i've never seen your face.

what we have is the envy of the ignorant observers who know nothing of the chains that keep me bound to you.

what we have is hypnotic, baby.
sweet words


floetry


word junkies
flow flunkies,

you're the monkey on my back.



i taste you


smell

feel you

from within and afar.

embraced, mauled.


cursed

and kissed by you,

when you're not being demanding


or coy."

A One Night Stand @ Uptown United

Artists Sean Vali and Skip Hill take it to the corner in a live art performance captured in timelapse at Uptown United in Downtown OKC. Props to dj k-ReAL, Ben Esthing, Josh Heilaman, and to video editor Michael Clardy.

Transcend: 5 Artists by 5 Artists

"I don't live up to all the stereotypes...
...just the ones that count."



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