Oh well. I already named it. I was listening to The Residents while making the drawing for this image. Yes, the original drawing looks different than this. See the original on my Instagram account. The Residents made a song called Weight Lifting Lulu. It provokes the imagination to say the least. While making this drawing, it was late. I made up the word “wifting”. I haven’t determined exactly what it means yet. I’ll probably leave it that way. The word wu sounds Chinese…
…And it is. I searched it with my cadre of elite digital pigeons. Upon their return, I discovered Wu is a river in China. Rivers are symbolic of “the way” or the Tao in Chinese philosophy. There’s an ancient Chinese philosophy manuscript called the Tao Te Ching and the author, Lao Tzu, discusses “the way” frequently in that profound text. Instead of exploring the way here, I encourage you to read the Tao Te Ching to see what kind of neurological artichokes you might butter up in yourself and discover.
I already posted version four of this drawing on my Instagram account, along with the original drawing. I wanted to post this one here on my WordPress page because it feels more definitive and final in a contemporaneous sense. None of my art is final however. In my head, art is like a flowing river of ideas that I pay attention to sometimes. The ideas are like fish that I have to catch by jotting them down in sketchpads in the moment. Otherwise, they disappear, never to inspire me again. So I have to wait for another school of ideas.
This version expresses the random foundational brushwork I prepared the surface with before drawing on it. In fact, the surface is the blue oil paint I painted on to a piece of paper to use as a transfer medium for The Abandoned Teleportation Device. It’s just a 3d depiction of a wire mesh I created inspired by iron fence vector and abstract artists from the 20th century.
Medium: Ltd. edition print (25)
Dimensions: 34 x 28 inches (not framed)
Framed and with glass, this piece is: $450.00
Unmatted print is: $95.00
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