jack of diamonds

The Artist as a fool, and as the Ace of Spades, this was during the Darling Harbour days, probably at the old casino! ...

notice these things: the picture is about communication and the others are on the grid!! The King is ignoring his call the Jack and Queen are almost Twittering ...

the fool is ............ with spoon .... who was I talking too?? Definitely not on the grid ... notice the labors of my support systems ! the legs barely able to support such a singular idea ... hello is that me , am I alone?

portrait of the artist as a younger man

my own personal answer to Carnaby street ... I had this essex super six woodie that i drove around for about a year ... and i wore a bowler hat ... carried a cane .... well as you do when you do so ... i had started to work for Tom Bass in his Minto studio ... first to help with the casting of the Adelaide AMP sculpture and onwards to work on the National Library entrance in Canberra. Tom was at the height of his career doing many of the mayor public artworks during the sixties and seventies ... I learned a lot about plaster casting and welding copper sheet ... I think I still suffer industrial deafness from months of belting copper sheets into shape on an anvil out the Minto Bush ... then National service dragged me away from this job ...

the devil gets first taste ...

details details details I get lost here at the devils portal always getting into the minute unimportant detail and missing the overview ... reinventing the wheel of fortune constantly ... this is a bit of a painting left over from the termite attack of the 90's ... so much Art eaten by these little devils that eventually they took on some flair for destruction ... I saved some bits of Art I will find it and post here ... anyway this is the beginning ... more will flow on