All pieces - work on paper/acrylic/ink washes (click on image for larger view).
These pieces were shown at Aesthetic Survival Studio in Atlanta. They were each done during a single sitting with no deliberation. The idea, Johnny Detroit's Zen Fest, was based on a work of fiction I wrote. One of the characters writes a series of titles on scraps of paper and dares Johnny Detroit to pick one at random and draw/paint his interpretation within a suggested short time limit...until each of the pieces is completed. I tried it out in real life and these pieces are the result.
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| Rock & Roll Egypt |
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| Passionate Pyramid |
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| Within/Without |
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| We move through the plaza of pudding |
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| Logic's drama unfolded |
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| Suburban Cairo |
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| Phantom cat in corner |
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| Ontology or reflections on scientific method |
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| The Alchemical triad or three points of refinement clarified |
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| Ziggurat erecting a triangle (in memory of those who gave in the line of duty) |
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| The unbroken triangle of Time,Space & Pattern |
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| Secret gospel of Mary |
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| Meet me at the triangle of 2nd and 3rd |
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| Psychologist's fallacies formalized |
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| Triangle Royale |
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| Plato's dicotomy |
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| Officiating the divorce of fact and fantasy in the court of reason |
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| Nymphomaniacal dilemma |
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| She |
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| Anchor Man |
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| She lived in the shadows of Modernism and knew it not |
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| Ducats dichotomy |
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| Ode to Moses who developed spiritual living in community relations through his vision of transcendental law. |
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| Animal behavior transferred |
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| Sophia & Arcanum Arcanorum |
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| She wanted passion not fashion |
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| Man/Shadow |
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| sealed lips |
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| Portrait of Goethe without Goethe |
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| The extremities of fatalism are near-misses or hierarchy of habit |
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| Nature cannot be thus |
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| He |