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A Sunken Outlook
It was just one of those mid 1970 pencil reflex draws, where nobody's around and you can do whatever the hell you want with your hand, without someone asking you what your doing. I used drafting pencils . . . a mechanical drafting pencil with somewhat soft lead. I'd put a tremendous amount of weight into the paper, balancing the absolute spasm necessary to express me innards. This was done on an index card, looking somewhat like a person very adjusted to his component architecture, or seating arrangement. This person is gazing out upon his element of control, much as a self confident denizen would survey the street from his low profile car; some such other description would also suffice. The line exuding from the cheek-nose suggestion, underneath the wiggly eye, isn't an incineration device. It was merely the act of holding on to the pencil and having that move drawn; then dealing with the result.
Another drawing
Originally I saw a moose in this drawing but because of an aesthetic conflict with titling other files I dropped that designation in the current setting on this server. It's there in the original scanner picture file name. Done circa 1990 in Kansas City. The bulk of that artwork/modality never saw the light of day. It was too rough and unformed. Occasionally something would remain that I enjoyed keeping. Anyway, the concept is one of depicting the spirit of the animal.
The presaging authority
Another salvage of content from massive nervous energy. This time the duck bill was obvious to the marching uni-step rhythm. The parasitic overlord like entity attaches, either invisible to the psyche of that forward driven physical duck, what have you, or it's the vibrational equivalent to/in some incarnation-like drama. ( i.e., two spirit forms seen in a non-paper dream) One might grasp the underside of an airfoil like wing structure perpendicularly intersecting the overlord entity. I have no idea what that might imply. Otherwise that's just confabulation, and one shouldn't read into what's not really there. (Underneath the duck's bill are the arms of that human-like duck.)
Perceptual
This is a study in three dimensional form. The jetting figure is a cross between inanimate perception and corporeal animate existence. The arching elbow eclipses the shoulder-less grasp of some sharp crown-like blade. The inordinately small feet point to the ultimate collapse of this entity into the fabric of the artist's drawn perspective. Obviously the eye's folded with what might pass for a mouth jetting about a rather rambunctious face. This is absolute minimalism. The two top horizontal lines are saying only one thing. One (me) is shorter than the other (you). The vertical rectangle visually continues from the mid horizontal line and implies a turnstile like portal; desk or some such other imaginary existence. One might configure, from looking at the feet, one dog/human/superhuman cross-like being. It appears there's no need for two arms. What I try to squeeze out in meaning might not make sense to another person with very different eye muscles and perceptual viewpoint.
Off somewhere I ain't
This denotes a flying entity and a land dweller in synergistic rapport. I simplistically designated the mammalian cow and reptilian bird as convenient labels though there's really no logical correlate upon any reasonable analytic basis. There's some other type specie out there that inhabits the pasture lands and makes such necessary friendships. I just don't know exactly what that would be. With that said, hey, make something up.
Spinfast
This is the first pencil sketching I've done this year. I started doodling while discussing layout in front of sister Jill's landscape plans. When home I took her 2B pencil and made an attempt to feel with the open window and wind coaxing me. Out of the swath of paper I chose this stab to display primarily because it was less cluttered and more mysterious. One should be able to grasp six general spin vectors. In addition there's a facial element if one's intent on maintaining human outlook for this experiment.
Tapestry
This work was done using standard issue pens. It represents a potpourri of interdependent facial outlooks. Each face having elements borne from their adjoining vying expressive neighbor. The pen's abrupt violence might terminate or add to each respective drama. No one's the wiser. This might be structural outlook and homework for hallucination 101.
Cainine Independence
This might be thought of as a concept car for the box built dog. A smug rear pointed head glance transmits a departing farewell to that rather boxed existence.
Dimension
Since someone in my family had sequestered the original I Gimped my way with the noisy photocopy, making a Sobel edge detect; color/invert, and layer/color/threshold cleanup. This drawing is facial in tone and minimal in intent. The circular arch is reminiscent of the depicted aura surrounding one's head, though in this case serves as a portal to the headily dimension outside yet in that very head.
Burden
This was a salvage work with scissors. I enjoyed the pointed spin to the feet and could not get myself to throw it away. The grumpy face with bulbous nose and pincer-like jaw characterizes the prototypical steadfast drunken sailor, whom isn't human at all. And the realized burden is typified in that bent down posture affixed throughout time. One could also imagine a lean companion piggy backing upon that sailor. No telling whom that other foreboding weight might be.
A future composite
Of all the titles this strikes me as the most abstract. Again the nose and cheek are combined for efficiency. After all, who needs two parts when one will suffice. Armor plating comes standard for his ears. A gentle finger touch intercedes a side glance taking in a pending event. This unit of consciousness is guiding while observing. Telemetry's built in, with the taste, smell and cognizance antennae as standard features.
Symmetry elements
Two main planar axis provide for the topology. One rather startled parent holds vantage while two underlings nest in aft parallel, and perpendicular form.
Askance
This creature was clearly in downward step as the picture formed. In the foreground is the complementary one hand and pointed nose long side. With rather wide steps, rapid movement's achieved.
Garden Grove California
I'll leave out guessing the age I was, but one thing's certain my brother Jim in the foreground is dead in body.
Solid, liquid & gas
After studying microscopic reactivity a bulk presentation assumes a whole different character.
Snow in Garden Grove California
The only snow I can remember in Southern California. The house of my birth circa 1959. 11632 College Ave. The rain is seen quickly destroying the evidence. The first and second born in umbrage.
Dog Show
The two younger sisters, mother and I on the 1145 Salvador Costa Mesa California patio posing with pedigree obtained from Kay Finch. (middle/Heidi with Shandar Kahn & I with Teddy)
Jim returning from LDS Mission to Sweden
The Carrousel Arc de Triomphe of Louvre in Paris France 1971
NY Canal
Facing East November 10, 1979, 2903 Boise Ave Boise ID prior to the skating freeze. The eight acre lot is now tightly subdivided.
The Northwest Corner (southside)
My location: four floors up; middle, rectangle, grey black brick window border window.
L.A. County
As you can see sedimentary material invokes the classic pool form which is inherently more difficult to implement ala natural. The explaination is quite unambigious. Sedimentary rock shows more immediate character and thus specifies a more precise complement. Pooled water does not have the constraints that a neighboring rock would have.
July 1993 to January 1994 Laboratory Research
Retained synthesis photocopies from Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology geminal to work conducted at 5507 Hardesty Kansas City Missouri 64130.
Masonry
A slate patio and brick job done for John Fabre at his father's house prior to my moving to Kansas City in 1986 to complete my chemistry degree. Mr. Fabre defaulted upon his terms of payment. I had filed a claim with the San Diego County Division of Labor Standards Enforcement but was unable to make the long drive to San Diego at the appointed hour. His acquaintance derived from an uncompleted hovercraft project undertaken in 1982 at 1336 Garlingford Costa Mesa CA 92626.
Lubripac 301 E Donovan KCK 66115
17 years ago this was an oil testing lab nested within a Texaco distribution. Atomic absorption and infrared spectroscopy; flash point determination; bomb ash analysis; Karl Fisher moisture determination and physical testing, including viscometry, specific gravity, pour point and copper corrosion.
Staveley Services F.A. 935 Sunshine Rd KCK 66115
A graphite electrode arcs at the top of a graphite disk which is slowly rotating in the railroad engine oil sample thus energizing the wear metals in suspension; providing a rough indicator of engine component life. December 7, 2004 to February 2, 2006.
Looking East
The first analytical position held after completing Dr. Cheng's Analytical Chemistry with an A grade. I had just purchased my first house at 5507 Hardesty KCMO 64130. My Yamaha RD-200 cafe motorcycle provided most the 20 minute to/from.
MPP offices 1420 Kansas Ave KCMO 64127
All old metropolitan MPP offices being now resituated immediately behind the scaled down plating and anodization lines.
Western Adhesives lab where I'd worked 1990.
Compounding and viscometric refractometric analysis of packaging adhesives.
Exit to Troost Ave
Most unusual to have an address recessed so far from the actual street. Maybe I'd say, hard to find.
Techniseal Offices, Lab & tape production floor
Physical analysis of caulking and sealants. Location at 8539 Troost Ave, Kansas City, MO 64131. According to the current owner Bartle Sales Inc, an engine repair and detailing shop, Butler Buildings North America had changed specifications and Techniseal went out of business
Kitchen