The New Inspirational Movement

For the last month or so I have been working on my upcoming installation and exhibition entitled “IN TIE ONE WE TRUST” to be held at the bluedahlia’s Studio gallery, 3435 Cesar Chavez, #315 in San Francisco, and opening on August 19th, 2007, 4 - 9 pm. The exhibition is on view through August 31st by appointment only. For more information call 415.828.4418. Here are photos documenting my progress as i create the installation almost all from scratch and mostly using recycled materials. Thanks to the Sanitary Fill/Norcal Company, the SF Garbage Dump for the Spectator newspaper rack, the fake flowers, the Christmas lights, some of the wood, and most of the spray paint i used. A special thank you also goes out to Paula Goodman and Express Service Signs in Cincinatti for all of her wonderful recycled sticker vinyl scraps. And of course, I want to thank the anonymous donor who made all the copies of the “TIE warning” stickers from the original TIE made so long ago. Thank you. You know who you are, my other hero. A final thanks goes to Julie Blankenship of bluedahlia’s Studio gallery for hosting my show. I love you, Julie!

For months, the parking lot outside my apartment remained empty… preceding the new p.c. raza mural (also now in progress since these photos have been taken) and revamped parking lot, so i decided to make use of the space and spend some time making art outside in the nice weather and the urban landscape.

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First of all i have to say that the question “Can an Anti-Pop and Pro-Pop Artist Collaborate?” is an interesting one. I can’t really think to any artforums, art in americas, juxtaposes, art history classes i have taken, or graduate school seminars in which this topic has ever come up in my own experience. So here, i can put my personal feelings aside and say this is really a revolutionary and pertinent question of our time, one I guess that isis and i will figure out an answer to.

Idea #1. The Really Pop Idea. The Idea I love most of all. The Idea i think you probably won’t like because it is too pop and you already said no to anna nicole… but i can’t stop thinking about her and i don’t want to.

she touches me i away other celebrities don’t… i guess i would think she is more like me than the average celebrity in that she is real…

much more real than stupid paris hilton or britney spears or angelina jolie… despite her boobs that i discovered were fake, she is more real to me… because she worked her way up from nothing, the way madonna did, from poverty. because she was a stripper who broke into modeling… to me to become so much more classic looking than your average hollywood bimbo. she raised a son when she was basically a kid herself on her own… totally respectful. she wasn’t totally skinny… i fucken hate aneroxic models and celebrities… gross. too skinny is bad. anna was 176 lbs when she died. shots of her dancing, just days before she died, practicing for an upcoming trimspa commercial, she looks absolutely beautiful and natural to me. all you skinny girls can kiss anna’s ass cuz she looked all that at 176 lbs… damn!

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Before i get into this idea of collaboration, i thought i’d hit up the link to my bebo profile and the photo albums i’m keeping over there. i am kind of beginning to visually categorize everything in my life or trying to. I have 10 albums so far. Each one has a 48 photo limit. It’s great for creating an online portfoilio of all my artwork because i work in so many mediums. it’s fun to divide them all up and make decisions to group certain things together in an effort to decriminalize them (ie. graffiti mixed in with gallery art… he he… is it legal is it not? and who really cares in the end?). Especially after you see my card that i sent to Gavin Newsom… that’s pretty revealing, if anybody even picked up on it. I had already given him my business card at that point anyway. Where do we draw the line on all these things? What is art and what is not?

Part of my art now is collecting news stuff about anna nicole smith… her legacy… her baby. I’m just so into her story… thus, my anna nicole smith rip bebo photo album… which i worked on for a couple hours this afternoon. i had to catch up on that before i wrote down the collaboration idea #1…. the anna nicole idea i had after i saw your recent drawings, isis. to be continued…

anyhow, here’s the bebo link

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Hey Isis, now we’ll see how separate our thinking really is under the gun. I am soooo… greatly saddened by the sudden death of Anna Nicole Smith. How do you feel about it? See my myspace blog…

Anna Nicole R.I.P. Blog

I have no idea how you feel about her. would you like to collaborate on 2 (it works when we do two, passing back and forth) Anna Nicole Tribute Pieces…Life size with glam guess jeans for the 80’s image and some super sexy dress for the 2000 piece!! (or better yet a sexy pregnancy shot)… i was thinking one from a guess ad mid eighties and one from anna recently… a flattering pic, no super fatty shots but no super skinny. i hated when she was skinny. i hope yer into this idea! my weekends are packed and sharon is usually wed and fri afternoon/early evening. starting march, i’m starting art therapy as a patient thurs afternoons. so it looks like my collaboration days could be mon or tueday if you wanna go for afternoon or early evenings. R.I.P. ANNA NICOLE, my teenage idol.

God, i hope those pics worked. i used photobucket this time…. an experiment. Hope yer into the Anna Nicole Art. Sounds fabulous to me!

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