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The Infinte Line: Infinity

 

 

 

The Infinte Line: Infinity, 2005, HTML, 480 x 680 pixels

 

 

 

 

The Infinite Line: Series

 

 

 

The Infinite Line: Series, 2005, HTML, 640 x 540 pixels

 

 

 

 

The Infinite Line: Picture

 

 

 

The Infinite Line: Picture, 2005, HTML, 460 x 880 pixels

 

 

 

 

Willie 1-15

 

 

 

 

A couple of weeks ago, when thinking about what to do next, I settled on the idea that I wanted to do something figurative without actually doing the figure. Three squares stacked vertically seems pretty figurative, and so the next question of course had to do with, "who are these figures and what are they doing?"

Lists are extremely helpful for meeting my daily goal of a posting a drawing. I often go with a theme-based lists, such as 16 Arhats, Dasarâjadharma. Thirteen Records, or Trennung 1-24. I'm also attracted to the use of language, word play, and alliteration, though on review this isn't something that finally shows up as much as I thought it does. A couple of examples are mouthsounds 1-30 and a kind of name association called Smokey Robinson, Jackie Robinson, Jackie Wilson, Mookie Wilson (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) .

It's baseball season, of course, and in the kitchen I was listening to the season opener on the radio, SF at LA. Willie Mays is my idol, and I could think of five more players named Willie off the top of my head: McCovey, McGee, Stargell, Rudolph, Wilson. I searched for more players named Willie. It wasn't that hard, butI stopped at fifteen. Thus a series of drawings about baseball players named Willie.

The first couple of days I called the series The Willies, but of course "the willies" means to be spooked, and since most of these players are African American there was the possiblity of a misunderstanding of my intention and other things I don't want to get involved in, so I'm just calling this series Willie 1-15.

Being figurative and baseball-related there's an attempt to get movement, outdoors, light, some baseball imagery, some feeling of figure. I tried to stay from team colors, but I have to confess I didn't do that completely. Green kept showing up; gosh, I wonder why? Some of the figures seem more day game-like, some more night game-like. Other than that, nothing too radical here: no steroids, no spitballs, no corked bats.

By the way, series of drawings back to January 2004 are compiled on a single page, and series earlier than that are compiled in a list at the old weblog. This reminds me that I need to copy those compilations from the old place over to this current place.

 

 

 

 

Willie Wilson

 

 

 

Willie Wilson, 2005, HTML, 540 x 180 pixels

 

 

 

 

Willie Wells

 

 

 

Willie Wells, 2005, HTML, 540 x 180 pixels

 

 

 

 

Willie Stargell

 

 

 

Willie Stargell, 2005, HTML, 540 x 180 pixels

 

 

 

 

Vincent Romaniello

 

 

Vincent Romaniello has been added to the list of artist links. Vince is a painter in the Philadelphia area. The recent work on paper has an immediately strong architectural component to it that is both structural and ultimately expressive. He also makes short videos of artists, studio visits, and exhibits that have the point of view of someone who knows about the artist's process; these can be seen at his videoblog.

Vincent Romaniello, Untitled 4001, 2004, all mixed media on BFK Rives paper, 15x22.25 inches