"Red Bird"
Oil on Canvas
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I used to live in Northeast Minneapolis (often referred to as Nordeast).
Me and between 4 to 6 people used to live at 620 4th St, NE, which we
affectionately called "620". It was a great old house, really big with lots
of nooks and crannies. Many a laughed was laughed there (and many beers drank,
joints smoked, saunas sauna'd, etc). A good friend of mine named Mark started
a painting in which he painted a horizon with a blue sky and brown earth below
it. It looked really lame. I took it upon myself to spruce it up a bit for him.
I painted four or five weird things on top of the horizon, one of which was a
reddish blob. I then announced to him that the painting was finished and was called
Red Bird. He wasn't impressed. I hung Red Bird on the wall at 620 and left the
oil paints out on a stool with brushes and other implements. We had many people
come and go through 620 in those days, and many of them started to add to the
painting. Over the course of the next 6 months or so Red Bird became what you
see above. Probably as many as 40 or 50 people contributed to it, and it shows.
If you look at it long enough, many subliminal things start to rear their heads.
I highly recommend that YOU start a community painting. But don't do it on your
computer. Do it in atoms. Paint and pigment.
Later,
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