MooPig Paint: 2014

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Paintings Hanging in my Parent's House in Pearland, TX

This one is the oldest painting from 1976, oil on untempered hardboard

Mom wanted a lighthouse scene with crashing waves ... circa 2011, oil on canvas board

I did a portrait of Dad in 1998, I call it "The Speculator" because he was just that, a land developer. Oil on canvas

Friday, November 7, 2014

Lighthouse

After struggling through a large painting, with lots of paint left on my palette, I bang out a postcard picture for grins and giggles. Here is a dramatic pose of a lighthouse up on a pile of large rocks... ships stay clear. It is useful to have a few blank [or used] canvasses laying about for practice when you are all tense, helps to relax.

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GRAVITY FREE is inspiration. It's a “why” conference, not a “how to” conference. The speakers are the change-agents of the world. In the past we've invited to speak such important designers and thinkers as Tucker Viemeister (Oxo Goodgrips kitchen tools); Ron Pompei (Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie stores); Chip Conley (boutique hotels like The Phoenix in San Francisco, based on psychographics of magazines like Rolling Stone); Homaro Cantu (leader of the molecular gastronomy revolution and inventor of the edible menu); Freddy Justen (innovative communications storytelling at international trade fairs); Aldo Cibic (co-founder of the Memphis Design movement in Milan); Deborah Sussman (legendary 1984 Olympics graphic designer) to name just a few.

"Can you Hear me Cow?"
"I want to consider this question in relation to one specific area- the contemporary government of disorders of desire.
Not disordered desire in the sexual sense – which, despite the colonial ambitions of psychoanalysis, was never more than one small corner of the empire of desire.

I want to consider those other forms of disordered desire known as cravings and addictions - disorders that Mariana Valverde (1999) has termed ‘diseases of the will’ ...I am interested in the mutations that may be occurring in our ways of thinking about and acting upon these pathologies in the context of recent developments in the life sciences and biomedicine - the decoding of the human genome, the new neuroscientific knowledges of the brain and its mechanisms..." (Rose, Nikolas; October 2001)

"That sounds about right for you, Pig."

Published as The neurochemical self and its anomalies, in R. Ericson, ed, Risk and Morality, pp. 407- 437. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003