Backside the Mirror in Tarnished Brain Land (detail) – assemblage & foto by Smith
Still got my mojo.
I made a new assemblage last month for next week’s Fear & Love diptych show at the Doubting Thomas gallery, but that piece merely combined three old artworks of mine into an old-made-new held together with fresh trim and imagination. I didn’t quite feel like it counted as a new piece, even though it is much better than the three old pieces used to make it.
My new one’s titled “Backside the Mirror in Tarnished Brain Land“. this piece is bigger – 55″ wide by 31″ high by 4″ deep – and more interesting. Perhaps even prettier, although that’s a difficult term to use with many of my dark extractions.
After I finished it, I realized the 6 individual clusters remind me of the strangely surreal Mexican Lottery/Tarot cards which I’ve always loved. Whatever, this is definitely my Mexico piece, inspired by 15 months of living in the Sierra Madre Mountains in southern Mexico.
Now I just have to find a place to have a show to show folks the difference between actual art and the art game.
Backside the Mirror in Tarnished Brain Land
June 2010, 55″ x 31″ x 4″ – assemblage & fotos by Smith
You were right yesterday. I love this piece. So much to get into.
That’s what I used to like about doing acid, you could pick up a piece of lint & be amazed for hours & that’s what this piece reminds me of. ‘Strange Days’ by The Doors would make a good soundtrack for it…
Fabulous and fantastic – one of you best pieces, I think! So glad you included the details, because I wouldn’t have appreciated the whole as much without being able to see up close. I’d love to see it in person.
I’m wondering if the mirror pieces might have come from the mirror Lady threw out the window in one of her videos.
ke: it was weird putting it together – i picked out a pile of found objects i liked from our stash and stood at the foot of the table, laid the face down and then wap wap wap real fast laid out each of the six surreal scenes without gluing anything down except the face then stood back and thought do i really glue this together? went to bed. got up next morning, took one look and glued em all down pretty much where they were
jb: no, the mirror part was there from an old piece – the mirror fragments, the unfolded cigarette box by the face, the blue copper corrosion background with red swirls,and the 5 black circles were from a previous piece that almost worked in it’s simplicity but ultimately failed.
Awesome… yes. I agree . glad you’ve shown the details.
And from previous experience I know it always is better in person. So I can’t wait to see it up close and personal.
When is the exhibit supposed to happen?
I see.. next week… cool.