Premonition of Gold Fields in Desert Regions
The top left may be a premonition of spending some time in some desert region. It looks very much like the place where I wrote the anthology "A Tenant in Tenant Creek" several miles outside of Tenant Creek, Australia, during my sort of walkabout there over twenty years later. I'll put the anthology on the website as soon as I get around to copyrighting it at the Library of Congress. I keep putting it off. The hat is very much like the one I wore and the scarf may actually be a misrepresentation of the mosquito net I had to wear to keep the flies away from my eyes. They go after the moisture in the eyes and after enough time can cause blindness due to disease. Every day in 'Oz is "Flyday", mate.
It was from memory of me walking past Gramercy Park in NYC, but the green figure denotes not-yet-thereness, if you will, that it's in some future and the landscape certainly isn't a walk-in-the-park sort of environment. If it was the Outback, I was there twenty years after the work was painted. Once again I happened on an area with gold mines and there may have been an abandoned one just below where I sat on high red rocks like the ones in the painting. Actually, after writing was done for the day, I went down and found it. You know, I didn't realize it until I began to author this web site, but I'm beginning to feel like some kind of a gold-finder or something. Maybe I should visit the Black Hills, I might happen upon the Dutchman's mother lode. All kidding aside, it can be a bit jarring when one begins to finally come to the realization of what it really is to be a human being.
Self Portrait (from memory), walking beside Gramercy Park with back pack and
paint box.
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I did this multi-paintings-in-one thing quite often. In
order to keep working away and save money on picture planes, mostly stretched
canvass I did myself, of course, I would take masking tape and when finished,
remove it to make the clear lines you see on the bottom and left of the picture
above.
Here's another
one: "Planet With Four Climates". This time I painted a design
in the lines after removing the masking tape.
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