I have a show coming up in September and just had a visit from the director and curator of the gallery. I've been wanting to do a sculpture of a giant signpost with forgotten and fictional lands from literature and scripture as the signs. The curators liked the idea of the sculpture so I have to get busy making them. What you see here is a time lapse of me painting the trim on one of the signs. The sign says Luilekkerland, which is Dutch for the land of Cockaigne. There is a famous Brueghel painting about it. the post will be from a large limb that fell down from one of our trees. It's in the shape of a giant question mark. Which is what I expect from most people seeing my work.
I recently started doing time lapse videos of me painting and working so i could chart the progress of each piece and show students the process. FYI-the creature walking back and forth is a taxidermy frog, playing the bongos, that dad had just sent me. (an alligator head came the next week) strangely enough I had been eyeing it on ebay about the same time Gene bought it for me.
If you can think of any mythical lands or lands from literature or films, post them in the comments and I'll make signs for them.
What's the little figurine doing the jig down the middle of the board?
ReplyDeletefrog with bongos. do you ever read what is written in the entry?
ReplyDeletehmmm...Ruritania (from Prisoner of Zenda) and I'm not sure if this fits the parameters but River Heights is the mythical city where supersleuth Nancy Drew lives!
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p.s. I'm getting the parents to work on this too!
Nancy Drew, nice. I have a number of serious ones in there, but a few from pop culture as well. twin peaks, the dagobah system (where Yoda lives). Folsom prison (in honor of johnny Cash and uncle allen and jacob).
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