"a blog about my studio" / home, 2014@tombubul.info, @tombubul. Created 11/10/14.
I'm very busy right now, which is what I love being, so I'm just gonna just keep it quick and phone it in this month, i.e. literally just write this on my phone in the bathtub, "That's a Monday," so =
I took a week in October off to paint and do upkeep on my life. I built a new kitchen island, did some drawing, did a ton of writing, and started a new large painting, which I think I'm not gonna post a progress shot of yet.
Been thinking a lot abt "working faster," and how my current "insane dive" mode isn't really sustainable, in that it doesn't create momentum, that I now have enough ideas that I should be rendering them at a coherent rate, etc. The current new one unifies and concludes the work I've been doing since my space 1026 show almost three years ago of these "insane dive" paintings - it collates all of their ideas into a single piece, demos "all current tactics," and points at the new things I'm thinking abt w/r/t image-making in both process and visual senses = feels good.
Already feel that I'm at least as productive now as I ever was when I lived in providence, that when this piece is done, I'm gonna be "entering a new era" w/r/t painting that may "feel different." what will that mean? will it mean anything? will it be "a golden age?" of realistic figurative painting? of sunlit paintings of barns? of riffs on "the 90s?" of abject garbage-art leaned against a wall? will I be happy for a while, then a little grumpy, repeating? hmmm ~
Jack-o-lantern calls out FUCK WITH ME pic.twitter.com/8wa9vMgfjI
— Unsecure Channel (@fujichia) September 29, 2014Been enjoying editing music into these "mixes" a lot this year - feel that it has already affected how I hear & think about music in small, fun ways. Possibly not listenable or interesting to anyone else, though!
I very felt the Halloween season this year and I def identified with the Jackolantern here: I'm grinning & I'm on this wall... let's go dude, where're you even at? Hahaha that's what I thought...
Several older "mixes" are downloadable here, the others are still on soundcloud. Probably gonna annotate them all at the end of the year?!
Started doing this again and can't rec it enough... dead simple and the broke shd note that it's cheaper than buying loaves. Recipe as ever is here. If you're g-free peace and god bless!
Did a ton of writing in October - quantitatively probably the most I've done in any given month for the last eight years - but almost all of it is in a giant gross "oblique and obscure prose poem" list format, collating jokes, rhymes, puns, and "routines," with nothing about "myself" and no "descriptions" allowed, just the above, images, and ideas = basically exploding "how I like to tweet" into a bigger environment. At some point I tweeted "have a 2000+ word tweet going," now it's a lot bigger than that, but same thing.
With painting a part of speeding up for me has been learning to "let the paint do the work" instead of "letting the brush do the work" = With writing fiction I'm susceptible to something similar, which is why everything I produce is only ever 3-10 pages long (or something like a metaphorical 9"x12"). Not that that's bad, but it's fun to try to scale up = Current hypothesis is that a way for me to reasonably do that may be "pile it up with a few things in mind, then cut in later," versus my normal process, "have strong ideas and relationships in mind, then forcefully try to represent them." The idea here is more like, in a 150 page garbage text file, there may be something that resembles an already-mostly-complete framework for a 20 page piece that I hadn't already had strongly in mind, and then there it is, it's just a matter of working what's there and trashing everything else, that this might in the end be a lot easier (and as interesting, and more scalable) than trying to call my own shot every single time. Might have to write a lot, lot, lot more nonsense to get there, but the positive trade is a reduction in "force" and "trying," both of which seem like good ideas from newtonian and/or buddhist perspectives.
- "projections program 7" w/ mike stoltz, ben russell, meredith lackey, joana pimenta screening @ lincoln center / relaxing in lincoln center filmmakers lounge w/ mikey, lace curtains, et al afterward... site bag... amy feldman at blackston, no aloha at uffner
- movies: Don't look now, coherence, paris is burning, serpico, muppet treasure island, agnes martin: with my back to the world
- khun narin electric phin band via charlie, the 3lr track from dracula lewis "technical xtc," scientist wins the world cup, infinite jest audiobook
art thoths:
amy feldman at blackston! went to this like "am I gonna like these?" and left like "did I like those?" but for these two whenever I "just look at them" I'm like "!!!!! ahh killer!"... nice interview with her here.
my highlight from strauss bourque-lafrance "no aloha" show at rachel uffner. there were a bunch of these = I think they were spraypaint on a folded piece of white screen, painted on both the top and bottom "pages" separately to create this kinda destroyed blurry shifting foreground/background effect. this one looked great.
and this ajay kurian piece upstairs at uffner = no strong feelings abt this but feel like I see these "no-window-interior fantasy black-lit men's space" images/tableaus a lot now, that they're kinda garfielding up everywhere? just noting and "keeping an eye on this trend"
new counter
halloween decor across the street
jeff on his birthday w/ "own face" cake!!!