Maybe it’s already done but I can’t see it yet………… Maybe I haven’t even started………… One can have more than one reaction to a work of art.

Contradictory; unrelated.

All the black fabric stacked has to fit somewhere – the lace, but I’m not sure unless you use the white ppr lace with the black lace.

I just can’t figure out how it all fits together, or whether I see two shadows or three of my pen cast on this notebook.

A perfectly, dully articulated lintel.

Lintel?

How many flat surfaces

Are there exactly?

Chair arm

Table

Column unceremoniously

shorter than height of

ceiling

Lintel, though it may just support the arch.

Blue on the top of your forehead right

under your hat.

above your lip

articulating the dimple in your chin.

ever so quietly blue under your eye

under your brow

and your cheek lined in the healthiest

Pink.

Your lips orange, with a smoky

Black line articulating the space,

The shape, making the smile,

And holding it back, and holding it set.

A hint of a chin under your jaw line –

You’re young still, when baby fat has

Not yet been renamed and reclaimed

As overeating and a weak chin.

Yes – you look healthy and plump

Today, like a putto.

*Ideas for art projects. February 2, 2010.

Girls (tween age) sitting in chairs

Half-circle wearing horizontally

Striped sweaters (white, w/ red stripes)

Wearing white fox masks, bunny masks

White fur animal masks, skirts

Silhouette of young man w/cut

paper. Tools of 16^th c. Cut paper.

Bronzino’s portraits in cut paper.

Young man re-sculpted in white paper.

Cut-paper silhouettes,

Silhouettes w/ detailed cut outs.

As of February second Two thousand ten.

Portrait of a Young Man, Bronzino

Silhouette jacket

Portrait of Napoleon with Bull’s head

Shredded white paper strips

White, red, gold heart doilies

Belgian lace laser cut paper edge

Book of Frank O’Hara poems

Man Ray book cover

Cut-out silhouettes

A page of women’s sleeves

How can I integrate these ideas without lapsing into a book format?

If I make a book, how can I keep it fresh?

Lace overlay on portraits

Maori tribesman w/ facial tattoos

Effect of cut paper silhouettes

Bull’s horns sculpted out of lace /

Laser cut lace paper.

To reassemble.

Carved horns.

Huge horn – size of me or 5’ high (multiple)

Addresses masculinity

Ego, delicacy, could do multiples, colorful, Neo Rauch colorful words.

Black background, white figures in relief – could this be abstracted? White paper shards on black silk cotton background. Abstracted silhouette.

Blue, red silhouettes / cut paper

Black marbleized paper.

Paint pictures of quilts.

Thinking about how my last few projects have been made of paper, specifically, printed paper à

*Self-portrait cut paper sculpture

*Bibliography w/ jingle bells

*Flip-book... ***is LITERATURE REVIEW***

Was I drawn to Portrait of a Young Man because of the featured prominence of two of my favorite materials printed paper/book and sculpted & shaped fabric?

Never considered it this way before but it might be something.

Huge horns. Series.

Masculinity

Ego

Arrogance

Also-kind of mocking

Impressive

Delicate

Series of horns. White cut paper. Lace.

Doilies. Red? Gold?

Words. Painted horns? Neo Rauch Totem pole horn.

Gray w/blue, neon orange bits sculpted into 5’ horn shapes growing out of the ground.

Fabric? Printed paper? Painted & cut canvas? All of these ideas?

How do I create armature?

Build a weighty base and then fit armature/horn over bottom?

Are these in a context, as part of a room? Do they stand alone? Are they part of something; are there images on the wall, lights adjusted, sculptures around, as part of this, or do they stand alone?

Wrap one with ribbons, threads, trimmings. Look at painting again. Make one of wood, of metal? Think abt malleable forms of each material. Thin wood? Metal foil, how can hard materials be shaped? Am I trying to say too many things or am I exploring materials to figure out what I want to say and how to say it?

I see a woman standing next to each horn, wearing one piece of clothing, a beautiful collar, a beautiful sleeve, a beautiful bustle. I see everything on a bed of hair, covering the floor of the space. I see low spotlights on each [horn/woman].

The gallery is mostly dark, save for these spotlights. On one wall, there is a sign; it is in little lights (bulbs) à in metal armature.

The lights are a warm orangey/sepia brown and they have a word:

I don’t know what the word is yet.

Is it women, men & women, men, women… what is the framing of the worshipping of male ego/totem?

Timeless? Specific? Afraid it will look like a dance piece if it’s men & women. But feel it is a misread of the painting to have it be heterosexual, since it’s not really about that, entirely… it is to me, but it goes beyond me at the same time.

Wood – wood……

Metal – foil, doilies

Paper – cut paper – black

Painted canvas – Neo Rauch

cut?

Words. Fabric.

Totem pole.

A beautiful baroque Indian colorful horn.

Printed paper, cut out.

Print out Neo Rauch pictures

And cut them?

Unicorn horn, fantasy, impossible

Worshipping @ foot of something

Unreal, unresponsive, aloof.

Design/concept partially inspired by powder horns.

Extravagant/expensive materials

Affordable:

Small units pieced together

Paper w/extravagant finishes

Think about ways to make adhesive à glue guns

Glue

Plaster

Encaustic

Sewing

Want to make sure I’m not just decorating a surface. Surface should be developed, sculptural, dimensional, finished.

à Embossed, decorated silver sheets / foil

see metal shoe.