Showing posts with label neighbors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neighbors. Show all posts

Monday, September 6, 2010

Recommended...

...having a yard sale if you're in that sort of neighborhood. My neighbor and I met nice young couples, chatted with the dotty old lady who walks around –and around– the block, and tried to persuade cynics of the veracity of our signage ("Napoleon commissioned Michelangelo to make this for his Palace at Versailles"). A man on his way to the racetrack bought Mr. Moneybags (above) for luck ("He's made me rich, now it's your turn - $1.00. Cheap!"). The green thing in the front is some sort of demonic-looking green pig, not sure what it's meant to be for, although I invited opinion.

The high point came when I spotted a woman across the street with her little dog running around - a few weeks ago, I was outside talking to neighbor Carlos and we saw this same dog get run over, its pelvis was shattered. It appeared to be very lively and in good spirits. The woman gave me her card so Carlos could call and hear the story.


Above, from a dress my neighbor had out - I am going to incorporate this as a dandy's wild cravat in one of my painted photos. I think I need to leave his face showing, he looks like Johnny Depp - you'll see. It is reminiscent of Eva's Tatzelwurm, I think - the pattern, not the the photo.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Were we naive?

The way we were going to live in the future...

I'm calling this one Atomic House. Was the cold fusion error the last gasp of that dream, the consequence-free glide of technology, cutting through the materiality of everyday life? Considering that the idea of man's complete control over the material (AKA inferior because non-spiritual) world goes back at least as far as the philosopher's stone and transmuting lead into gold...

Nah, don't think so.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Hello neighbors

Yours truly will be participating in a garage sale tomorrow, mostly selling plates and oddments suitable for mosaic purposes - or even for food purposes. I wanted to let my local readers know, not for sales purposes so much as to say if you are in the neighborhood (ie, Santa Rosa and Jean in Oakland, between 9:30 and 2:00, hope you will stop by and say hello to my neighbor Faith and self. The above is not for sale, just for looking at. But I am planning to go to Trader Joe's for brownie mix shortly. Rain cancels.

Trying to think of a Lost scene for a sidewalk sale - if I have time to draw this evening -