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Flowers (Ziggy Stardust), oil on card, 16.5 x 14 cm -available
the surface of this picture is pitted and has picked up dust
I am trying to incorporate, and have been for some time, some ideas from Japanese and Chinese art about leaving aspects of surface plain, the play between mark and non-mark, void and presence. And I also want to developing, from Eastern painting, an attitude in which I accept unintentional events on the picture field as as possibilities, instead of necessarily "correcting" them to suit an a priori schema.
Today`s music was by Bauhaus: their fine cover of Bowie`s Ziggy Stardust never fails to delight:
Ziggy played for time, jiving us that we were voodoo
The kid was just crass, he was the nazz
With God given ass
He took it all too far but boy could he play guitar
Making love with his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man I had to break up the band.
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As ever, I bow before the greatness of Fantin-Latour.
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