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ART IS WORK AND HERE THERE ARE PICTURES TOO AND VEGETARIAN FLOWERS
to see about my annual art project:
to see about my shoe making shop:
to see about letters:
LA freeway of words
She can sing Arab love-songs, play flute, hautboy, and zither, and her skill in making cigarettes and coffee is famous, and all her charms and accomplishments are for hire.
I want to release my art projects into the world--for a price?? to sustain my 'strong-strips' type band-aid habit and color photocopy habitat.
What is Magic?
We dream about it,
we visualize it,
and viola, it appears.
It's "magic."
Yes, it is.
We dream about it,
we visualize it,
and viola, it appears.
It's "magic."
Yes, it is.
Harold Pairs, "Sweet Land of Funk,"
Art in America, March 1967
"In Los Angeles art is consumed voraciously-- a bargain-table commodity. In San Francisco and the Bay Area artists live among a citizenry whose chief artistic concerns are opera and topless. The serious artists, galleries, and museums flounder in the "Bay" of lethargy and social inertia. The artist here is aware that no one really sees his work, and no one really supports his work. So, in effect he says "Funk." But also he is free. There is less pressure to "make it." The casual, irreverent, insincere California atmoshpere, with its absurd elements-- weather, clothes, "skinny dipping," hobby craft, sun-drenched mentality, Doggie Diner, perfumed toilet tissue, do-it-yourself-- all this drives the artist's vision inward. This is the land of Funk."
ideas:
*cereal is perfect
*dot drawing of b.b. at maxim's belle epoch
*chocolate boots
*books from trash
*cast sno white in plaster, make her funeral shrine pile
*make a tree to pick sculptures from
*new frosting painting in grass