tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74877495490746379552024-03-13T10:41:37.820-07:00SkipfolioArt and the Sublimehodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-27990031949670691472011-12-21T21:56:00.000-08:002011-12-21T22:15:51.985-08:00Skipfolio: Coffee With Beatrix<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h1VsFp98flg/TvLJdPYkKfI/AAAAAAAAAgg/jSykDwwD2k0/s1600/KOFFIE+WITH+BEATRIX.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="396" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h1VsFp98flg/TvLJdPYkKfI/AAAAAAAAAgg/jSykDwwD2k0/s400/KOFFIE+WITH+BEATRIX.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Meanwhile… back in the Studio, <strong>Skip Hill</strong> is creating bold still-life paintings with a funky fresh appeal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>"Koffie Met Beatrix"</strong> is from an evolving series of large, colorful works that play with abstracted space, place and mood. "These paintings reflect my love of languages, music, travel, as well as rich coffee, exotic tea and the fruit of the vine." </span><br />
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<strong>As a general rule, the Dutch keep their curtains open.</strong> As a culture perhaps the Dutch feel they have nothing to hide, and therefore do not feel the need to close the drapes in their homes. <strong>“Koffee Met Beatrix”</strong> is an intimate look through such a window into a gabled canal house in <a href="http://www.holland.com/global/Tourism/Cities-in-Holland/Amsterdam.htm" target="_blank">Amsterdam</a>. The room is a harmony of abstracted space, contrasting patterns and clashing colors reflecting the schizophrenic elegance of the city itself. <br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Skip Hill’s</span></strong> recurring motif of the <strong>Asian porcelain vase</strong> is the central figure here..."a visual metaphor for Woman with full hips and a Japanese tattoo". The Dutch love fresh flowers,<strong><a href="http://www.keukenhof.nl/" target="_blank">"bloemen"</a></strong> which in this painting explode with color and energy. Coffee time with cookies or light cakes is a delightful Dutch custom and <strong>“De koffie is klaar!”</strong> means the <a href="http://dutchfood.about.com/od/glossaryhijk/g/Koffie.htm" target="_blank">coffee</a> is ready. A guest arrives on her <a href="http://www.mydutchbike.com/bicycles/gazelle-omafiets-and-opafiets/" target="_blank">omafiets</a> (translated as <strong>“grandma’s bike”</strong> ) the classic Dutch mode of transportation in a city which has as many bicycles as people. One of <strong>Chopin’s Preludes</strong> is at play on the stylized baby grand beneath a painting of <strong><a href="http://www.koninklijkhuis.nl/english/Who_s_who/The_Queen_of_the_Netherlands.html" target="_blank">Beatrix, Queen of The Netherlands. </a></strong><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">The drive back through the Heartland was practically a religious experience</span></strong>. <span style="font-size: large;">Six states in one day through varied landscapes and shifts of terrain, culture and time. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tempting the speed limit,</span> </span><span style="font-size: small;">blowing past big rigs and crossing borders with the face of my son before my mind's eye. Billboards preach affirmation of my purpose, destiny and blessings... "I love you, I love you, I love you"...God.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Omens of safe return and promises all along the way. I had driven most of the trip in silence, except for my thoughts, the atmospheric noise of passing cars and whispering wind. Three-hundred miles out, I loaded the CD player with Moodswing's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pywkt4aTgXk">Spiritual High, The State of Independence</a> featuring the seductive vocals of Chrissie Hynde. By the time I hit the Ozarks, a slushy mix of rain and snow had limited visibility, yet I felt the truck practically drive itself homeward like a horse honing in towards its stable. At dusk, the sun shone like a divine eye through the gathering of clouds as it settled into the horizon. I couldn't help but smile at the tears gathering in my eyes listening to Dr. Martin Luther King's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgbeXVAPW64">haunting sermon of hope</a> backed by a gospel chorus in the third movement.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Crossing over into the Cherokee Nation and the descending dark, riding the pony past Checotah, Sallisaw and Henryetta, another life away from Constitution Hall, the gritty streets of Philly, the Washington Monument, Stone Mountain and the Georgia pines. Indian casinos appear like cities of heaven in the distance and just as quickly fade into night behind me. The chasm of miles between here and home shrinking with every minute and the blur of white lines slipping under my wake.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">One more Love's truck stop and my exit is next. Pulling into the driveway as if I had left just yesterday, I feel my heart race even as my mind eases. I sit in the car with my eyes closed and "Spiritual High" bumping loud, listening to the refrain and chorus for the last time tonight..."the state of independence shall be...the state of independence shall be.." The garage door slowly rises as Adam comes running out to the car. I lift up him, we hold each other tight without a word and I feel his tears convulsing in his chest as well as mine,... both of us engulfed in the swirl of music and this precious moment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;">The Firebird</span> is <span style="color: #cc0000;">Charlotte’s </span>newest work of privately-owned public art and is a permanent fixture in the</span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Bechtler Museum of Modern Art</span> collection</span>. <b>Standing 17-feet 5-inches tall, the sculpture is a whimsical, bird-like creature covered from top to bottom in pieces of mirrored and colored glass.</b> The<i> Firebird</i> was installed on the plaza of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art facing South Tryon Street overlooking the new Wells Fargo Cultural Campus where the museum is located.<br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Created in 1991 by French-American artist <b>Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002)</b>, the sculpture was purchased by museum patron Andreas Bechtler specifically for placement in front of the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.<br />
</div><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="color: black;">Bechtler, a Charlotte resident and native of Switzerland, was looking for a sculpture to serve as a counterpoint to the geometric lines of the museum’s architecture, designed by renowned Swiss architect<b> Mario Botta.</b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.botta.ch/Page/Recenti_en.php"> <span style="color: #b45f06;">http://www.botta.ch/Page/Recenti_en.php</span></a> </span></b></span><br />
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</div><div style="color: #999999; font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">“When I saw the<i> Firebird</i>, I knew it was outstanding. I knew it would be great for the museum,” Andreas Bechtler said. “The <i>Firebird</i> is joyful, uplifting and engaging. It makes you feel that life is good.”</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art is named after the family of Andreas Bechtler</b>. Bechtler assembled and inherited a collection of more than 1,400 artworks created by major figures of 20<sup>th-</sup>century modernism and committed it to the city of Charlotte.<br />
</div><div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Bechtler collection comprises artworks by seminal figures such as Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miro, Jean Tinguely, Max Ernst, Andy Warhol, Le Corbusier, Sol LeWitt, Edgar Degas, Nicolas de Stael, Barbara Hepworth and Picasso. Books, photographs and letters illustrating personal connections to the Bechtler family accompany some of the works in the collection. Only a handful of the artworks have been on public view in the United States.<br />
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</div><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Ok, so I'm chilling</b> <b>with my cousin Rodney in Philly</b>.</span> </span><i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The house on Player Drive is new enough not to register on my GPS. It's a big, red brick Georgian in a new neighborhood of upper-middle class Indians and Russians. A police officer's family lives across the street.</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I<span style="font-size: small;">nside Rodney and Cheryl's home is peac</span>eful, serene, white walls, </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> area rugs</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> and sofas with well-appointed touches that mirror the Islamic faith that she practices and lives. She maintains a beautiful prayer room upstairs. Much of the furniture has been collected in the course of their extended travels through the world, most extensively through the Middle-East. Their military and government service has afforded them rich opportunities to build both valued professional and personal relationships in the heart of the region. He teases me, <i>"Say, Man, you ever been to the Burj Al Arab in Dubai? Ever have lunch at the Muntaha? Two-hundred meters above Jumeriah Beach, The Palm and World Islands?"</i> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">But when asked to chose his favorite spot,..<i>"Man, I like Bahrain..."</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>So Rodney mentions</b></span> that he could use some help moving some things</i> <i>around in the basement</i></span>. <i><b>"</b></i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i><b>Here, I wanna show you somethin'</b>.."</i>,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> He opens a door in the hall at the foot of the stairs. I had already walked by the door several times since my stay, assuming it was closet. We descend the stairs to the basement.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I notice how much space there is under the house. Lots of storage in here...lots of Rodney's hoard of custom-made suits, stacked piles of moving boxes, and stuff they've picked up over the years. So with a big</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> grin</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> and a flourish he laid out his goal to me... <i><b>"Skip,</b>..<b>help me turn this space into a Man Cave, where I can come down here, play my music, play some pool</b></i></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> and chill</i></span></b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>."</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So I ask him, " You wanna get started now?" </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "Bet...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">yeah, Cuz'.</span><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> That'll be great."</span><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "Alright..." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and like two gophers digging out a new hole, we got to work.<br />
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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.hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-19344141705690937972009-08-28T21:05:00.000-07:002009-08-28T21:05:42.492-07:00Not Because You AskedGoing 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. <br />
Today...<br />
an angel come back to me... after all this time, <br />
a healing taking place as we re-enter each others' orbit. <br />
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'...<br />
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.hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-2597416745414610072009-06-21T18:35:00.000-07:002009-06-21T19:43:13.186-07:00Happy Father's DayHey, Dad,<br /><br />I recognize that whatever you want, you already have,... or can get it! (Hallelujah!..)<br /><br />So I offer this pearl of great price,<br />knowing and believing that you are well on this blessed day.<br /><br /><br />On this day, I recognise you, and acknowledge you, and thank you <br />for who you are and all you represent.<br /><br />I recognize you for your unique ways and manner, for the things you stand for...and what you won't tolerate.<br /><br />I recognize you for what you have done for the life and love of your wife and your generation. <br /><br />I recognize you, Dad, for the example of responsibility and a warm humor.<br /><br />I recognize you as a testimony to the graceful power of the right tone and proper attitude.<br /><br />I recognize you for your walk, and your willingness to be contrary even if you got to stand alone.<br /><br />I recognize you for doing what you got to do, when you got to do it.<br /><br />I recognize you most especially this day as the one who paved away <br />for me to reach this day, just in time to say...<br /><br /> I love you...<br /><br /><br />...So how much sleep do you think Barnes and Glover are gonna get thinking about tomorrow?<br /> 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?hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-19172438871757658132009-06-18T22:38:00.000-07:002009-06-18T22:56:32.335-07:00For Sydney"what we have, girl, is tantric...lapiz lazuli...<br />even though i've never seen your face.<br /><br />what we have is the envy of the ignorant observers who know nothing of the chains that keep me bound to you. <br /><br />what we have is hypnotic, baby.<br />sweet words<br /><br /><br />floetry<br /><br /><br />word junkies<br />flow flunkies,<br /><br />you're the monkey on my back.<br /><br /><br /><br />i taste you<br /><br /><br />smell <br /><br />feel you<br /><br />from within and afar.<br /><br />embraced, mauled.<br /><br /><br />cursed <br /><br />and kissed by you,<br /><br />when you're not being demanding<br /><br /><br />or coy."hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-82648097352238266562009-04-22T23:03:00.000-07:002009-04-22T23:23:18.021-07:00A One Night Stand @ Uptown UnitedArtists <em>Sean Vali</em> and <em>Skip Hill</em> take it to the corner in a live art performance captured in <em>timelapse</em> at <strong>Uptown United</strong> in <strong>Downtown OKC</strong>. Props to dj k-ReAL, Ben Esthing, Josh Heilaman, and to video editor Michael Clardy. <br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/UOkugi0mnlE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/UOkugi0mnlE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object>hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-2393162862177964722009-04-22T22:38:00.000-07:002009-04-22T23:01:19.552-07:00Transcend: 5 Artists by 5 Artists"I don't live up to all the stereotypes...<br />...just the ones that count."<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mX0H2oDSmok&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mX0H2oDSmok&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0H2oDSmok">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX0H2oDSmok</a>hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-54598167260503641892009-03-25T21:55:00.000-07:002009-03-26T17:19:36.753-07:00The Yoni Series<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrUf1KSzFo4LlZWKSrHakLF7XebJsj2SaBf6nV8iV_PX4R65EFNK20NWLlQyePnANni_OOnSe4wpXppd_5EPCTJzbd1i-1tEvGzj690UVf6Q1c_Q1RUJ_R9vGeGPFUIwZPPayH1scEb7o/s1600-h/Aja+Yoni+(22).JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317655366888581906" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 266px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkteDii8WbCtp9fjQyht01FUVR7XeYXxIWURPVMOzC7lt150PdrBUbIj1TxdVF0HKkYc2TIlA59mMS07NXVTdXtYsoaIQUJYr0qmEdRXZAS3rMLf8dpCFtsGYVwcC4JXhK9DNtQQlyNvI/s400/Aja+Yoni+(24).JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><div><br /><br /></div><div>"<em>Say, Skipfolio...my man!...</em></div><div><br /><br /><br /></div><div><em>You ain't been posting much lately, Baby...wassup wit that?"</em></div><div><br /><br /><br /></div><div>"Yeah.. I miss you too,... and as much as I love blogging, I don't want to be chained to the blog...,..<em>I'm gonna work it the way it works</em>...but I'm an artist first..</div><div><br /><br /></div><div>... working and pressing to get my shit together right about NOW!.... and that takes work and time. I been settling old issues with my father's house in Alabama and spent four days there since I stopped by this spot. Spiritually draining. </div><div><br /><br /><br /></div><div>I been busy kicking this nicotine demon's ass..I've been busy about the things I see before me in my mind's eye..'years on the cusp of greatness', the power of less is more..."</div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div><em>"Ok, babe, that's all cool, ...</em><em>I feel that, dig that, luv that...</em></div><div><br /><br /></div><div><em>But what I really wanna know is...<strong>are you making any Art? </strong></em></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div>"...Didn't I say I've been busy?"</div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div></div></div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317652074652359762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6BlS9XlnV5i0RnVT54EqGElyw1Q-tLwzcRqEMgkh4l0Zqle0H6Uoj-UDPW6bhs9NjtfDknLHYO-HPOr2qFG-2r5CTAXkYeC8d3KRCUslXi4CrOczVlRUMuWEn-HCFINykfPzHKnvmBdw/s400/Aja+Yoni+(1).JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><em></em></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><em></em></div></div></div></div></div></div>hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-89922412798650514892009-03-19T19:31:00.000-07:002009-03-19T22:36:44.594-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQglx2AcTOwA7a4k6I2q-k99dJdTP5yBI8Mp-iljbVSMPDxMLoQmrPCghX0LFISKFVuoxT8W_0x3wRc7cVUbBd1Rua5BMSnGItbo7sqXgN9UjnkbBUJPGclGvwKLSzkMk2khZLv9eZQUc/s1600-h/scan0033.jpg"></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFVBn-INQ2VbIiZLIFT4qVZEAUelcI3BYigauB2HZ10KxwZYDU6OdrA-FQF6bi7SW4A1rMRBK8N9sY5EwSwvPZDgZgidgkvJB1QXB-1EMnJR51A9Ghyphenhyphen0LYuradWy0Oit9oNcK_VK6w2oY/s1600-h/scan0040.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315095531054432706" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 308px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFVBn-INQ2VbIiZLIFT4qVZEAUelcI3BYigauB2HZ10KxwZYDU6OdrA-FQF6bi7SW4A1rMRBK8N9sY5EwSwvPZDgZgidgkvJB1QXB-1EMnJR51A9Ghyphenhyphen0LYuradWy0Oit9oNcK_VK6w2oY/s400/scan0040.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em><strong>Mocha Vrouw</strong> (voor jou...) </em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>2008</em></span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;">inks, acrylics on collaged </span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;">travelogue of Morocco</span></div><div align="center"><span style="font-family:georgia;font-size:85%;">published in the 1950's.<br /></span><br /></div><div></div>hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-40098048520133727992009-03-06T11:07:00.000-08:002009-03-06T11:11:15.335-08:00So how do ya' think he's doin'?...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuBPHEHFyiD020xMRmp0hHhVcqJRmbGMPj71AU1G_BOSAaRLDvAqb5Atgp02zVFR1yBPpQUfKRsY-AzqE_NdPsTR_Bmow-uw8WWfkZt-rgA5T53CJ-yv83sST4NUZ1jscdbX6-vFSYLxA/s1600-h/ObamaDir_562.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310154244248938066" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 300px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKNrYKrAzYGFnQ57GfFoAfmfBS-dudcFvnx4m8f_ikVnEpMl8nrgSSOCyO0rdIUxvPIgAp-wXjjYLkqg_HZSmU_BemvjtZjmVJS4ITpczg9Bkwj693QVeN1Cj3o86D4myTSAaZpoOXqLg/s400/DSC01126.JPG" border="0" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-55647940219166628852009-02-26T14:28:00.000-08:002009-02-27T06:01:36.168-08:00Route 66 road trip<span style="font-size:130%;">"I gotta go to the bank,...</span>You wanna ride with to Chandler? I asked.<br /><span style="font-size:130%;">"<span style="font-size:100%;">yeah, man,... sure</span>,...let's roll.."</span> he replied.<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzBWG8WT0s2VNIUghXaRqjQvvizqGcmq8CYm_XYKkN6LIGZf43-HCWgmGwB193JxkSQ8EqQd3B0uhfezsVE' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-18308757607405006722009-02-24T11:16:00.000-08:002009-02-24T12:59:37.335-08:00Wrestling With Angels<p><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxPfDvSeBoMMIcXucvuZihK6A52fYZLM9ir7hCHsItJBmrFnAGuO5dt6nXrP4HXc1qd_Qw_Kcu8CEYdOIZRIQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></p><br /><p>I was emptying the car of paintings from the trip to Chicago, when my long time neighbor <em><strong>Jim </strong></em>came waving across the street, reaching for his smokes. "How was the show in Chicago?"</p><p>We shook hands and I shared my visit with Judy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Saslow</span> in her gallery, I told him of my discovery of the work of Nancy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Pascke</span>. We talked about the meditative time of driving 12 hours straight, of the health issues of a couple patrons of the Chicago art scene, and through winding paths of rabbit trails and free-flow trains of thought, we came to me showing him the artist proof of my book, <em>Wrestling With Angels: A True Story Based On A Lie, Part One.</em> I knew that he had studied theology, and was a poet, so I led him to the chapter <em>Morning pages: proverbs and poems,</em> and left him to read as I returned to unloading the car.</p><p>Here were his immediate thoughts...</p>hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7487749549074637955.post-74802630732818937172009-02-21T16:02:00.000-08:002009-02-21T16:15:01.436-08:00Posting new stuff this weekI've been in Chicago (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Obamalandia</span>) this weekend visiting friends and making the gallery scene, but I'll be posting again this week. There's snow, dirty slush and brutal cold of course...The cops are still posted next to the blast barriers in front of the Obama house on 51st street... Checked the INTUIT gallery show of outsider art, visited with Judy <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Saslow</span> in her gallery on Superior (one of her favorite Bulls players has been traded to the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">OKC</span> Thunder), got my fill of Jamaican Jerk catfish, rice and beans, plantains and Ting sodas...stayed in the studio of artist Arlene Turner-Crawford and enjoyed her art, her collection of jazz, and her hospitality. Back through Red State <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Amerika</span> Sunday afternoon...Outreach presentations for The Oklahoma City Museum of Art next week...at some point a brother is actually going to get back in the studio and do what he do....hodarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04006445282892703964noreply@blogger.com33