entering a controversial drawing in members' art show

[jimboloco]

we'll see how it goes, i plan to frame it with a flag.

also in the original brown ink, flagborder in earth tonez as well,
framed in denim blue.
i re-joined the st pete art league just in time to enter this summer's members art show.

something about symbols and metaphors, with accompanying essay. mayby i'll pin a ditsinguished flying cross into it as well.
wonder if it wilol be posted or rejected, and could signal more efforts at illustrated fears and loathings to come! show is in july.
i initially stated my entry title would be "melancholia & euphoria"
or like agonia and extacia, etc, but now wanna see if i can change the title, submission deadline is july 1st, so it will be a test of anal dogma, or if they let me change the title, then it might be rejected on grounds of too controversial as i would change it to the original title, "fear & loathing on the bombing trail", wowow, i was not sure that i was gonna use this drawing when i filled out the app entry, but now it is crystallizing and expanding in my head. i'll be chure, mon, to post the finished work along with any details of what happened in the show, if anything.

i need to write an essay also. will get some details about this, post it and take some feedback. any ideals are welcome.

[judih]

Is that Cortez in the foreground?

framing with an American flag? Yeah. Let 'em have it.

no ideas - i trust your flow to come up with an essay. June 1st is Wednesday - if you want opinions of what you're writing - post here.

judih

[jimboloco]

not a conquistador
nor a metaphor for war
he's somebody who writes his own orders
he cries with joy when another joinz him
steps back stands down
green man waiting a symbol of
outsiders and refugees, the unwilling, yeah on a flag
what about a flying cross?
or a dried flower. on the flag border.
or both

thanks will co roger

[jimboloco]

here it is in original brown ink, i bought a speckled yellow green paper, and three prisma pencils, terra cotta, ultra marine blue, and verge d'or, an earth yellow, will place the above drawing over the paper, which i will color a flag, which will border the drawing using these colors, terra cotta for red, the ultramarine blue, and a glaze of the verge d'or over the open areas of the pale speckled pale yellow green paper, this placed into a recessed plain weathered gray wood frame, with some grasses, amber grains framing it and possible a flying cross.

so now i have the supplies. got to assemble the flying cross medallion, a cut out, with foil appliqué, yes, will do nicely. nest step posting as it happens, after it gets made. wanna follow it thru with the composition i gotta write out as well, it goez with the pics when it gets submitted, and after that, we'll see if there are any kinks, or if it goes up and survives the members' show.

"melancholia and euphoria" is a disguise name fo the secret name which is "fear and loathing on the bombing trail."

yes all opinions welcome, whatever happenz............... thanks juduh, i corrected the due date it is July 1st. so am on schedule, a relaxed deadline, had fun picking out the accessory supplies at the art and craft shop!

[jimboloco]

Ah well, works in progress have ways of changing.....I took the drawing off the muddied orange and green field that I initially muddied in, in response to Jasper John's "Moratorium" flag, http://www.rogallery.com/johns_jasper/w ... _flags.htm

in orange and green, it didn't work at all, found the preliminary sketch I'd done, simple graphite carpenter's pencil, much cleaner, and had two pencils for it, terra cotta and ultramarine blue, prisma types, found that the terra cotta pencil matched the brown ink I'd drawn with initially about ten years before, the center page yellowed and aged, teardrop washes from my crying, remember, got drunk over it.

The blue turns out to work well, a soothing compliment to the earthtoned terra cotta a softer rendition than red. Ah a terra cotta white and blue flag, the homeland welcomes you.

It is mounted, ready, now I have to compose....

a 100 word essay explaining ...."the significance of the symbol."
In my case, explaining the imagery embedded onto the terra cotta, whiteand blue flag.

[jimboloco]

"Fear and loathing on the bombing trail" is taken from Hunter S Thompson's epiphany about Las Vegas, except that I witnessed it in the Vietnam War. The best I can tell you about this work is it's


not a conquistador
nor a metaphor for war
he's somebody who writes his own orders
he cries with joy when another joinz him
steps back stands down
earth man waiting, a symbol of
outsiders and refugees, the unwilling, yeah on a flag
what about a distinguished flying cross?
or a dried flower. on the flag border.
or both?


Ah well, works in progress have ways of changing.....I took the drawing off the muddied orange and green field that I initially muddied in, in response to Jasper John's "Moratorium" flag, http://www.rogallery.com/johns_jasper/w ... _flags.htm
in orange and green, it didn't work at all, found the preliminary sketch I'd done, simple graphite carpenter's pencil, much cleaner, and had two pencils for it, terra cotta and ultramarine blue, prisma types, found that the terra cotta pencil matched the brown ink I'd drawn with initially about ten years before, the center page yellowed and aged, teardrop washes from my crying, remember, got drunk over it, sober reflections endure.

The blue turns out to work well, a soothing compliment to the earthtoned terra cotta a softer rendition than red. Ah a terra cotta white and blue flag, the homeland welcomes you.

"Home from the War"

Pilot training ain't as hard as nursing school.
Flew a hearse in Vietnam.
Tactical airlift over a strategic bombing zone.
Swing low, sweet chariot,
coming for to carry them
home from the war.

Refuse duty. Hit the street.
My black brother got beat
by the police in Miami Beach,
down to the ground.
With one arm and one leg,
he stood up again,
tall and proud like he was before.
Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

World War One flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker
never knew the Blue Rider artists who died
down below in the German trenches:
Macke, Marc, Morgner.
They died in the trenches
along with their sketches
and he came home from the war.

jim willingham
© 2004
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/

I will get a shot of the art show and the final picture, oh yeah.
Rachel at the art center called me and we changed the title to
fear and loathing on the bombing trail.

[jimboloco]

Here's the final thing,
not a bad picture.



Fear and Loathing on the Bombing Trail

almost primitive, meant to be expressive.
definately NOT fine art.

[jimboloco]

Well, I dropped it off, they seem to be fine about it and while I was there looked at a
photo show from last year's Pride Festival, colorful drag queens,
next door is a gallery with beautiful prints from the psychedelic era. I am doing this for me, it feels right, overcoming alienation one more time.

It's a beach head! Avois.

[Doreen Peri]

Fabulous!

Love the final version!

Best to you, jimbo!

Let us know how it goes, ok?

[judih]

sounds like you're in fine company.

the background is superb
well done

judih

[jimboloco]

You guys are great. Thanks for this place, one more time.