#114. The Flora Nickerson

The Flora Nickerson (ghost version) Heading Out

#113. Floating boat seafood restaurant in Aberdeen, Hong Kong

#112. The Rhino Building

The Rhino Building (concept): offices, residences

#111. Pagoda rising into the sky

#110. Bandaged Hi-Rise

Bandaged Hi-rise apartment or Hi-rise in the Fog

#109. Re-connected

#108. Commas in Dialogue

Commas in Dialogue (intervening text dropped)

#107. Voices attached to the petal of a flower. Before Mayoral Election Day

#106. A Flower Breaking Free

A Flower Breaking Free--right in the middle of the worst headache I've ever had (Sept.15, 2010)

#105. Peaceful veins

#104. Sacred Heart

#103. Portrait of a heart

#102. Conch, Torso, Flayed Ox

#101. Stone

#100. Seed Potato

Or moon rock

#99. Face, Recognition, Tattoo, Memory and Histories

#98. Roman Face

Roman Face (Left Half)

#97. Close-look of the face from the front

#96. Large Golden Figure

The actual title of the drawing is "Large Golden Figure (Perplexed)." I guess it struck me as having a quizzical look on its face.

#95. This guy

#94. Mermaid Vase

"Mermaid Vase" because my wife, Malgorzata, says it looks like a mermaid. On the other hand, I see I have written the words "nasty vessel" near the object's top. And yet down the right side, I seem to have scrawled "A coffee cup (made with real coffee)".

#93. Vase making a keynote speech

#92. Wine Container with No Legs At All

"Adolf Loos and I--he in deeds, I in words--have done nothing but show that there is a difference between an urn and a chamber-pot and that venture consists in just this difference. But the rest...can be divided into those who use an urn as a chamber-pot and those who use a chamber-pot as an urn."
---Karl Kraus

#91. The wine container with three legs

#90. Colossos

Or a Big Boulder--itself walking across the land, like a Goya giant

#90. Deer ghost walking in front of a large boulder, circa 1997, Hong Kong

#89. Cairn

Three markers in front of an unformed, windswept background

#88. On stage, three mountains in front of a huge backdrop

#87. Lion Gate

Lion Gate bearing no resemblance at all to the great gate at Mycenae, with its two lions rampant and central upright column.

#86. A barking dog and the falling statue

#85. Champion

The boxer, eyes like saucers (or the headlights of an approaching automobile) holds up his champion boxing gloves (which look like lobsters) in triumph

#84. The athlete who walked away from the right corner

#83. Acrobats

Diving over one another, crisis after crisis

#82. He drove skillfully into the wall mural of an ancient astronomical map

#81. Small Shrine

Time Presses. Reverence presses.

#80. The Chinese garden fence motif looks like a subway map

(it comes out from a Chinese character means ten thousands)

#79. Palette Map

This is a page I was using as a palette. But a few blobs of black ended up looking a bit like a map of Canada, so I stopped mixing paint on it and glued it in here (ie my notebook)

#78. The world that is always in his mind (tattoo of a world map on man's shaved-head)

#77. Atlas

The world on his shoulders

#76. His brain was floating in the air making a sound in significantly low-level acoustic thresholds

#75. Belly, Lungs, Inflated Body

Body parts lifting like a helium balloon

#74. Flying object (in the new edition of Journey to the West)

#73. Brancusi's Bird In Space (Blue Version)

It's been there for decades too--for a century--whispering to the space around it.

"You can bring your friends or anyone you'd like to come," Brancusi told Henri-Pierre Roche, "providing they're amusing and unaffected, but never a critic, and never an art dealer, and if you want to remain my friend, you must never write a word about me while I'm alive."

#72. He has been standing there for decades. Water embraces the solitude zen

#71. Walmart Dada

Walmart Dada: Backyard Bar B-Q

#70. DADA

#69. Lettrist Doorway

A smear of black acrylic serving as a "hard-to-open" door for Lettrist International founder, Jean Isadore Isou, whose brilliant and exhausting 1951 film--Traite de Bave et D'Eternite (A Treatise on Venom and Eternity) I had just lectured about when I made this woozy portal. Scrawled beside the drawing is a quote from Isou: "Nothing can release life from its obligation to be absolutely passionate."

#68. The hard-to-open of an open-end

#67. Pink Portal

Expanded Punctuation--or Something to go Through

#66. If life is Monday to Sunday

(Some reasons to paint, to write, or to make a photograph)