a number of years ago, while on a field trip to a foundry for a weekend while at art school, a bunch of us had dinner at a local diner and began passing our paper placemats around and drawing on them. Some of my class mates would stare blankly while others went right to work. The ones that took a minute or looked blankly a the blank page asked how those of us came up with stuff so readily. For some it was habit or a style or a character they had drawn for years. I believe this is one of the first times I consciously considered the idea of Don’t Think Draw. It was a matter of not thinking and just putting pen to paper. In some cases it was copying the placemat design or details and continuing from there. I believe that is what was happening in the middle section of the corpse as I had business cards strewn all over the desk.
Not that it matter all that much, but here again is another corpse where people didn’t quite follow the lines or add directly to them.
You may have noticed an old typewriter in images from my office. I left a sheet of paper in it, and let people type away as they please. I believe the text began at the grand opening and was added to throughout the exhibition. Not too bad considering the age of the typewriter. Might be time for a new ribbon, though.
In the aftemath of my exhibition this was found amongst my files. I believe this was a drawing put together for and etching project I was invited to take part in. If I remember correctly, I was given a title and asked to respond or maybe I was reliving some older Canuck goals.
oh, one more thing.
the physical office is closed for now, but the case continues…
So, I had a visitor drop in the other day. I heard him coming about an hour before he walked in the door. He was spouting off to someone in the space next door about conspiracy theories or his intelligence about how the world is run and who has the money and how he laughs everytime he hears that Bill Gates is one of the richest people in the world and how little people know about who has the wealth in the world and he knows there are a select number of individuals who have 10 times the wealth of Bill Gates and in fact I had lunch with one of them because a friend of mine knows who is in charge of the global economy and we had lunch together in a fancy restaurant but that was back in the 80s and if only I knew then what I know now and all I need is $5,000,000 for start up and I can turn that over 10 times with no R & D because that’s where all the money gets drained and I had a chance to do this before and I took it to the Japanese but none of them spoke English so they didn’t understand and said my ideas were irrelevant and they don’t know what they rejected.
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