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Thanks for being here for a moment or two.
I saw some collage work done by Benny Andrews https://www.bennyandrews.com/here in San Antonio at the McNay in January of 23 and got together with some friends on a 'collage' date and made a collage after the style of Benny which is shown below the Hunter. Benny makes his collages out of fabric which he twists around to the shape he needs and lets it sit in a resin until it hardens after which it appears he painted it with oil. I loved the way the piece came together -- it had perspective -- as Benny's do, it had the texture and volume, and I think it had even more narrative than his pieces seemed to have. My guitar teacher's piece uses guitar strings and the music streams out of her guitar in a lovely green bow. She is wacky and her cat, Basura, is her foil...with bristling whiskers.
The first piece was one of the highlights of my regular representational painting -- the photo was a selfie by Ashley Jones -- talented and creative, and she shared it out on FB. For me the narrative here was the overlap with mask-wearing of covid, as in a protection mode we had all become accustomed to. However, for me, she was even more-so the hunter -- as an Army officer and shooter, she is smart, dangerous and deadly while paradoxically being beautiful. I am proud that this art was selected at the Texas Friends and Neighborshttps://www.irvingartscenter.com/exhibitions/past-exhibitions/ show in 2022 in Dallas. Gosh time flies.
I think my art is moving away from the latter and toward the former. Next blog entry will be about my practical art experiment about the Ogallala Aquifer https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/the-ogallala-aquifer.htmlin a Hundertwasser style. https://www.hundertwasser.com/en/art/paintings with a touch of information about what I have learned about the importance of playas.
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