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Monday, May 31, 2010

the stone raft...the travellers are nearing Lisboa


 
a recap not a nightcap....the intrepid travellers are in the 2cv following the dog....my dog is the old zefa dog who has very bad hind legs....arthritis....as you may kow i am not a dog person......my studio is his kennel...we share it...wherever i go the dog follows....dragging his legs.....alas he is no more..."zefadog"is his name and he is in the painting....back to the raft......the dog has some blue wool dangling from its mouth......the 2 cv goes very slowly following the dog...they never questioned why?....blind faith or fate or innate trust or some mystical magnetism drawing them to a distant destination........the blue wool is echoed in the painting with a winding blue road based on hockneys painting of mulholland drive....there are a few jig saw peices........how we put the story together bit by bit.....some peices fit     some peices will fit eventually.....some are cul de sacs........how to portray lisboa? without being to obvious...............when the travellers arrive in lisboa they stay @ a hotel in rua alecrim....uknown tthe birds form into an enormous cloudlike shape frightening all of lisboa........


1 comment:

miss understood said...

He was a truly wonderful dog. So sad to know he is gone. Long live Kapoor (I think it was his name).