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This
is an idea from Jennifer Gordon at the University of Lethbridge that I
just couldn't quit. I like painting in 2nd hand novels. The size is appropriate
for the quick gestures captured herein. I can go for pages on the same
theme and even in secret. Sketches I want to continue with I can blow up
and transfer to more durable media. These books are public books, executed
in public and shown in the same forum. They're irresistable at coffee shops,
especially to people with an interest in poetry (?) Someone once, by sheer
determination found a picture of James Joyce. Alot of literary critics
(who pick up my books) feel that "Portrait of a Young Man" is a boring
book and deserves to be drawn on. This is the extent of my knowledge of
the author besides what I have gleaned innetween paint strokes. I have
since moved onto sketchpads. An appropraite step although me and other
followers of the books miss the poetry.
These are like a visual diary. "The Collected Works of John Keats" was
begun in the Spring of 2000, and is still being painted. The drawings
for "Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man" were done in a month. Generally
the picture deal in the people, places, and weather changes of my neighbourhood
on the Drive in E.Vancouver. I have more books and I continue to paint
even the drawings documented here.
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