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Please draw in this book...

Project Summary
If I had a an art studio, I prom-
ise I'd invite you in for a look...:
There is nothing like waking up early
to go feed Trumpeter Swans & tell-
ing people later: "It's for my
job"...(Sari Grove on being an art-
ist...)

Authored by Sari Grove , Authored with
Joseph Grove


6.69" x 9.61" (16.993 x 24.409 cm)
Full Color on Color paper
54 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1456461287 (CreateSpace-
Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1456461281
BISAC: Art / Canadian
Co-Author: artist & good husband, Joseph Grove...
I decided that looking back in time was maybe a
good idea, seeing as how it is hard to move forward
with the past in tow...Excess baggage doesn't make
for fast travel...I don't really have an art studio per
se, well, there is a little shared room that I use for
the indoor stuff, but I try as much as possible to
work outside, for the pleasure & the good fresh air,
plus the outside doesn't usually come with a rental
agreement...Joseph Grove, my husband & friend,
helps me with most of my work & really, any work of
art signed by me is by him as well...This book is
mostly images of my oil paintings, including works
in progress & some secrets...I have also included
B'Elanna & Jadzia, our intact lady bengal cats, who
cause us to have a daily laugh without fail...Most
works are 2 feet by 3 feet, except for my two new-
est ones, Magnolia & Swans, which are both 3 feet
by 4 feet...In 2010, I went back to this larger size,


with optimism for the economy...I also switched
from Schmincke Mussini resin oil paints from Ger-
many to Kama Pigments' walnut oil paints from
Canada, at the same time...

The biggest problem with any underground
plan is induced seismicity...Toronto is con-
stantly micro-seismic...Excessive digging from
tall new building construction, near to the
lake, near to the CN tower, near to subway
lines, has already contributed to greater
ground instability...In 2009, I wrote to City
Council about my prediction(based on tremors
I noticed on my own street in the fall of 2009),
for an earthquake in 2010...I also spoke to
seismologists in Ottawa at that time...Any fur-
ther digging for anything, include transit, will


most certainly result in another bigger earth-
quake...


Hello,

I want to make a life size Trumpeter Swan
nest...The shape is like a wreath or donut, but
with a ﬂoor instead of a hole...


I was trying to ﬁgure out which of your grasses
& plants I could use & how...

There are wild Trumpeter Swans here who
were raised in barns then released into the
wild, who have not been taught how to make a
nest...

A couple live here all winter, though it is very
very cold...

I would like to leave a very natural nest for
them near to where they are, on the wet sand,
for them to consider...

if I can make a swan friendly nest prototype,
then there are about 1200 other Trumpeters
who might also like a premade nest...

Other birds have taken to birdhouses, this is
just a bigger size idea...


Any thoughts...

Sari Grove

GroveCanada

Contents of this Document: Bio,
Artist Statement, Resume,
Education, Family History, Sig-
nificant, Collectors...
Bio
Sari Grove...is a Canadian icy
cold Northern born blueish


light tending towards miser-
able(though has been referred
to as “Sunshine”), knife 'n oils,
righty & sometimes lefty
(handed), self-employed visual
artist, painter... Lately,
things related to the word
“Grove”...Style is a stone arch
bridge between Impressionism
& Expressionism which
means, there is subject but
foggy, there is message but
gentle... Educated internation-
ally & locally, though living
free range philosophically(I al-
low myself to roam),
as if all that formal training
was merely an appetizer to the
main course...
6 ideas that are important to
the
artist ... 1)Charity work is
worth it...
2) Ex- gallerists are still
appreciated...


3)Social skills are part of
being an artist ...
4)Education is continuous
...
5)Good family relations
are
integral...
6)Survival skills belong to
the daily regimen ...
I won a fishing competition at
Okeechobee Lodge when I was
7,
best fisherman of the week- af-
ter
that huge one time success, I
didn’t
feel the need to fish again...(If
you
ask I’ll tell you how I won)...
When I was 9 years old I got
my first paying job as Gloria in
Wait Until
Dark at The Toronto Truck
Theatre which had two loca-
tions, one of which


was in the Colonnade on Bloor
street...I got good reviews &
earned 50 dollars
a week for seven weeks, 6
shows a week two on Saturday
night...I
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9725 Sari Grove
bought a Lloyds of London ste-
reo system with eight track, a
record player &
it came with a cool metal &
white arborite shelving unit...I
was a star...
My first year of university (col-
lege actually) was near to New
York & I
ended up being the driver into
the city, because we always
had to borrow
someone’s car, & my brother
had already taught me how to
drive stick...I


seemed to have a knack for
getting parking spots, which
made me feel like I
was a naturally lucky
person...This was later rein-
forced when, as an adult, I
used to win the door prize cake
at charity events, or the chic
new (untattered)
jacket that I totally
needed...Eventually, I decided
that somehow, I
was a winner...(this has been
important in surviving as an
artist...)
After university, while I was
still figuring out who I wanted
to be, I rented
an apartment in Toronto that
had a balcony...That balcony
was the stage for
some of the most incredible
colour shows I have ever
seen...I began to paint


sunsets, only because God
seemed to be requiring it of
me...One day I


showed a
sunset paint-
ing to my fa-


ther, who told me I should be-
come a
painter...Which I did because
that was the first time he had
told me I should
become anything...
I speak french really well, &
have an excellent ear in many
other
languages...In my life I have
tried very hard to make for-
eigners feel welcome
in Canada, & learning to speak
a few tidbits of their language
helps...I guess


I have also travelled alot,

which I thought at the time,
was pretty normal but
now I realise, not so much...I
don’t travel much anymore,
possibly because


someone nicked my passport a
dozen years ago, & I remember
thinking
maybe the person was sending
me a message that I was tak-
ing too many


airplanes...So, I have been
learning how to stay put, in
Canada, & wow is it
hard...When it is cold, I am
here...When it is boring, I am
here...When there


is nobody who understands art,
I am here...Now I am married,
which makes
all the staying put even twice
as hard...I can’t just leave
anymore when I am


unhappy...I think this has made
me a better person, & notably a
better artist...
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Artist Statement
A lady’s flat wide (was once)
white bowl of steaming hot
slow cook Cream of Wheat,
cooled by a pour of cold milk,
burnished with granules of
melting brown
sugar...Approach from the
thickened edges with a well
worn metal spoon...Steam rises
like vapour from a horse’s
nostrils in a winter morning
barn, while crystalline diamond
in the rough snow twinkles col-
ours as the kaleidoscope
melts into a hay of textured
sweetness ...Something
about how good that is, some-
thing like that is what Sari


Grove is trying to paint in her
works of art...Tags on her
life: Canadian, oil painter, Ex-
pressionist, Nature’s child,
optimist,educated, travelled,
friend, wife, butterfly...
Subject happens as it happens,
Spirit of the Time , keeping
works of art topical to happen-
ings around town ... Materials
are classical, the finest oil
paints (though now made lo-
cally
in Canada & selectively walnut
oil paints for their low
low impact on the planet & they
are tree nuts, not like in the-
ground grown linseed/flaxseed
which can be allergenic
to peanut sufferers!) on quality
Belgian linen canvas,
though dammar varnish uses
oranges rather than turpen-
tine(


made in Canada too), knives to
paint instead of animal
hair brushes, my stretcher bar
wood from Canadian
basswood, which,
regrows quicker than pine
(more sustainable) & no rab-
bits
were harmed for the size or
ground...Method is rooted in
automatism, which allows
for a freedom of expression,
though subconscious
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seems so much more specific
now than before... comfort
with abstraction allows works
to be closer to reality, as, in
many ways, realism is actually
very abstract...edges are
thick & painted, wire is copper,
packaging is fabric bags


not plastic... Ethically, am
bound by many rules, the mere
hint of likeness often scares
this artist into dissolving an
image with a gentle opaque
glaze to obscure
recognition...Like a movie star
wears sunglasses, subjects
hide , for privacy...
Resume...
Full Gallery Representation &
Gallerists
2010 New system: See a paint-
ing online, meet at National
Mailbox in Toronto to see in
viewing room,
by appointment with Sari Grove
grove@sent.com or 416-
924-9725 (1/3 commission to
National Mailbox for physicality
of viewing room)...
2009-2010 Water Lily solo
show director/owner Usha
Makan


2008 Kohl Gallery of Arts, Eg-
linton ave. , “ Tree Perspectives
“ Director Gary Kohl
2007 Scollard Street Gallery,
Scollard st. , Grand Opening ,
curator Serge Chriqui
2006 Yorkville Gallery, Hazel-
ton ave. , “ Toronto Film Festi-
val
“ curator Chun Chen
2004-2006 Lanes Gallery, Ha-
zelton Lanes,solo, “ Chiaro-
scuro
“ curator Bahman Fadaie-nia
2000-2003 Studio 99 Cafe &
Gallery, Scollard street,solo, “
Cubism“ curator Warsame Boch
2000 Art Canadiana Gallery &
ArtistsDog Gallery , Montreal
NY curator Michael Cooper
2000 Original Papers Art Gal-
lery, Prince Arthur st.,solo, “
Marsh “ curator Tom Gottlieb
1998 Elaine Tennyson Gallery &
Artfocus Gallery & The Red


Head Gallery,Darling Building
curator Pat Fleisher
1996-1999 Yorkville Fine
Frame , Bellair avenue,solo , “
Automatism “ curator Huang
Kun Lee(Jay & Meong Wan)
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1995 Gebo Artworx, Queen
st.west , “ Abstract Portraits “
cooperative curatorial
1994 Artalog Art Gallery, Elte
Carpets, North York , “ Star
Formations“ curator Mark Buck
1993 Studio 2007, Sherbourne
st. , “ Pointillism “,solo, curator
Sari Grove
1984 Graduating year (grade
13) Art Exhibition, University
of Toronto
Schools, “Stripes & Spheres“
curator Mr. Boutros (art
teacher)
Education...


University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario 1991
Humber College, Ontario, 1990
Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass. U.S.A. 1990
Ryerson Polytechnical Univer-
sity, Toronto, Ontario 1989
Atkinson College Ward’s Island,
Toronto, Ontario 1989
McGill University Montreal
Quebec Bachelor of Arts 1986-
1989
Sarah Lawrence College 1984 -
1985
University of Toronto Schools
U.T.S. Diploma 1979-1984
The Toronto French School
T.F.S. Ontario age 2-1/2 - 1979
Media & Books & more...
2009
<http://www.urbanphilosophy
.net> episode 2 on
camera interview ‘Aesthetics’,
(Ontario College of Art


campus but by University of To-
ronto students)
as GroveCanada on Twitter,
Facebook, MySpace & more...
2003 Atlantisia gallery...asked
to comment about art by
chimpanzees who had been
rescued from medical research
into aids... (yes, it is art, was
the short answer (Sari gave
a long answer, as per usual
though), aired on local news
television)
Published 2001 “ The Talking
Vegetable Garden” children’s
book...(written by her Dad, ed-
ited by her brother & published
with help from sister-in-law,
with tremendous input
from hubby
Joseph)...2003 ArtistsDog, Mi-
chael Cooper
2000 Art Canadiana, Sharon
Norman & Ray Argyle,


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1998 ArtFocus, Pat Fleisher
1996 Giclees Altron Colour Im-
aging New Brunswick (Fine
Art Photography Transparen-
cies shot by “See Spot Run”)
1994 MediaTV on CITYTV inter-
view about Computers & Art
1993 Osmosis 500 limited edi-
tion prints Mahon Graphics
Markham
Family History:
Sari’s grandfather & great-
uncle are Lou & Nat Turofsky ,
founding
collection of sports photo-
graphs (5,000) at Hockey Hall
of
Fame , see ‘ Turofsky
Collection’
at <www.hhof.com/>
Memberships...


CARFAC Canadian Artist Repre-
sentation Federation
Artistes Canadiens...
CARCC Canadian Artist Copy-
right Collective ...
<http://www.artistsdog.com/
> Artists’ Digital Online Gallery
(DOG)
<http://www.grovecanada.biz
> Macintosh (Collectors met
in
person)
<http://www.grovecanada.net
/> Blogger (Art Blog Writings)
<http://www.grovecanada.tv/
> Magnify (Movies Peer
group)
<http://www.grovecanada.co
m/> Fotopic (Photo Album
British)
<http://www.grovecanada.ca/
> Weebly (Canadian &
shop)
<http://grovecanada.fm/>
GoDaddy (International +


Twitter)
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Significant...married 1996 to
artist Joseph Grove, owned
by B’Elanna & Jadzia bengal
cats...
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GroveCanada (the word you
use when Googling online...)
<http://www.TreeCanada.ca/
> Joseph & Sari Grove like
to support
Tree Canada who plant trees...
Collectors...Collections & Dona-
tions...
FAR Museum Phoenix
Arizona...as of Friday
March 5,
2010...(Yay! This is my
first museum)...”Pigeon
&


Baker ”security
tag registered at
http://www.fineartregis
try.com> title
registered
officially to Teri Franks,
inventor of the FAR se-
curity
tag...(love Teri, love
those tags, saved my
life when I
had to
prove ownership prove-
nance in gallery dis-
training...)
Haiti benefit February 24th at Glendon
College, 6-9pm, Teodora
Porumb organiser, “Pussywillows”24
x36 framed float oils
linen...(raspberries in bowl underneath
top painting...)
“Wild Lilacs”went to a
writer...(television producer/writer),


“I hear the trees speak in colour”went
to a famous hair colourist
who changed a molecule & created a
hair colour line that was
safer...
“One Little Tree”went to a Christian golf
club owner who is also
making green meal replacements & gar-
lic & oregano oils & owns
an exotic healthy food deli adjoining an
internet cafe...
Sunnybrook Hospital Brain centre Tran-
scranial Doppler machine
charity silent auction: painting went to
Bjorn who works for
Mercedes (Laird & Eglinton) “Sales-
girl”oils linen oil sticks R&F
pigments, gold powder, icing decorator
tool from Canadian
Tire, water taffetta laundry bag, copper
back wire...thank you
Bjorn.
Hazelton Lanes (through Vince, attorney
for Hazelton Lanes)
“Earth”,”Wind”, “Fire” & “Water”, 3 feet
by 4 feet by 2 inches oils on
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canvas from 2004-5
National Gallery of Canada (through
ArtMarketing on Bay


St.)(Joseph &
Sari Grove’s
‘Space Ships’ 30x40inch framed under
plexiglass, watercolours
gum arabic
watersoluble
crayon
doublethick illustration board)(Plus a
varied collection from the “Marsh Se-
ries”
works on 300lb. Arches paper in
D.L.Stevenson acrylics Canadian,several
works
donated...(more than 5)
Art Gallery of Ontario (through Art Gal-
lery Store)(Osmosis)
Sunnybrook Hospital Heart Centre (Si-
lent Auction)(Jane’s Tree)
Sunnybrook Hospital Oncology Cen-
tre(Figure Skater , Bald Eagles,
Skeleton, oils 2x3ft)
St. George’s Society (Indian Summer by
Joseph Grove, 300lb
Arches paper
,D.L.Stevenson acrylics, brush)
“Marsh Series work”Sacre Coeur School
(purchase at Silent Auction through
teacher
Hodo )
Rosedale Dental Clinic ( 2 22x30inch
Canadian made acrylics on
French
paper)


Mailboxes Etc. (Skiier, oils)
U.P.S. store (through Chantal from Haiti
, Birthday Cake oils)
Lanes Gallery (Sous le Pont oils, & View
-Daniel Smith metallic
oils
on wood panel cradled
Yorkville Fine Frame (Cow 30x40 inch
framed plexi. watercolours
Schmincke gum arabic crayon, Fruit
went to Laurie-L.LaB.aquapasto
30x40inch unframed
on doublethick architect board Cur-
ry’s)(now framed)
Hudson’s Bay Company (through Design
Academy student- possibly(was stolen)
bronze
of blowfish,
Music 22x30inch acry. on paper framed
plexi.) Helen...
Toronto Ability School (Osmosis
lim.ed.print Mahon Graphics
Markham)
Fraternal Order of Eagles (Osmosis 100
lim.ed.prints for charity
M.D.)
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Adoption Council of Canada (works by
Joseph Grove, extensive
collection) large donation...


Aji Sai (Tsunami, oils)
National Mailbox (fridge magnet design
, Joseph & ‘Mary’ Grove)
Sony Animation Studio (through Austin
Grant Dusseldorf Hollywood
Niger Freelance Animation Technician-
Walkabout , Pangea 3x4 foot oil by Jo-
seph
Grove)
Tilley Endurables (through Joshua Let-
terman , work on paper
framed
Marsh series)
M.O.C.C.A. (Museum of Contemporary
Canadian Art when it was
up in
North York) full
set of professional slides Marsh collec-
tion from 2000
Horwath Orenstein Chartered Account-
ants (completely abstract
portrait
of Joyce Rashid
at
garden party oils)
Bochner Eye Institute (through gift to
portrait Dr. Bernard J.
Slatt
at dentist , paper)
Lorac Wine Inc. (through Carol Slatt , I
won a ribbon oils 3x4
feet,
Marsh framed plexi


watercolours
paper crayon watersoluble &/or oil pas-
tel)
Kerbel Communications (through gift
Pointillism oils, Golden
Dragon
paper acr. )
Metro Canada Logistics (through gift
Casa horse oils 2x3 ft.))
Information about artist Sari Grove...(&
her husband, Joseph
Grove
too, who works with Sari on many
projects...)
LCBO (through employee purchase at
discount Crow oils, experimental
w.
brush))
Gallery One (through Baycrest Rehabili-
tative centre silent auction
purchase Osmosis)
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University of Toronto Schools (through
design submission Maple
Leaf digital image)
Bridge- cold wax +oils on linen 24 x
36inches unframed went to Dena our
neighbour...a teacher...at a local private
catholic school...


“Murcielago” oils w. cold wax.
framed in big black wood by
Scollard Street Gallery , went to
J.W.M. to support Durham
Humane Society recorded: Jun
17, 2010
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Look every business deal is a
negotiation...Stating a number, a percentage,
that should occur between an artist & a dealer
is just way too formulaic for a business where
everything ﬂuctuates...The correct way to ad-
dress the question is to offer possibilities for
percentages based on what the gallery is, who
the artist is, previous sales on both parts, &
any middlemen in between like agents or art
consultants or other facilitators...A commission


rate is a negotiable item, & should be based on
value of service offered...What I see today are
galleries milking the fact that artists are soft on
business sense...People are actually paying
money to have shows to day too- which seems
ludicrous on the surface, but I have plenty of
people argue that point with me...Many very
successful artists will not work with a gallery
who take more than a one third commission...I
happen to be one of them...Every artist is enti-
tled to their own deal & perspective on the is-
sue, but I have a problem with absolutes which
imply that that is the only option...Art societies
will often take less...Here in Ontario, one of
them takes only a 10 percent cut, but you have
to be juried in for membership & run your own
show on their premises...Other groups, co-ops,
small new galleries, are offering different rates
too...The key is that this is a negotiable item...I
have never never ever never thought that the
work of Monet, or Seurat, or Miro, or Van Gogh
was ever worth the exact same amount as the
people that sold their work...Sorry, I just don't
buy into this hype...The artist is worth more
than the sales rep, always...& if it is not re-
ﬂected in the commission split, it is meaning-
less to say so...
I am especially sad for young artists who don't
know differently...It is hard enough to make
money as an artist without being exploited by
the gallery...Good Day...


I was water dunk baptised at Agin-
court Pentecostal(1990), later con-
firmed at St. James 'Bond' Angli-
can(1995)... Married Joseph in
1996(at City hall mini-christian
ceremony with two Salvation Army
ministers present) (which counts as
a sacrament) & had been first con-
verted in 1987( a neighbour taught


me Holy Bible)...It's been 23 years
for me Christian, my first 21 jew...It
does get better...


“evergreen hedges with thick foliage such as
Leylandii, can filter out up to 30% of atmos-
pheric pollution. ” (from the first Google result
on Leylandii trees)…
Cutting down trees to put up flowers is an in-
teresting choice…Using weed killer is an-
other…Where I live, getting anything green to
grow is a challenge-such a different perspec-
tive here…
Cypress family trees can be pruned…It is more
work than killing them though…
Here in Toronto, it is tall buildings that steal
sunshine…Our anger is more tuned to that in-
sidious growth…
Your metaphor is one way of looking at
things…But sometimes, the marsh, the swamp,
the messy forest garden you have been given
need not be changed…A rotting tree is a happy
home for many an endangered bird speci-
es…When a church in Chile stopped using
palm fronds for Palm Sunday, they saved an
entire species of parrot…


I get what you are saying about getting rid of
people who don’t work anymore…But some-
times people & things need to be left alone, &
in the longer term, may bring unexpected
gifts…
The untended swamp may bring a Trumpeter
Swan…The untended garden, or untended
friend list, may bring the joy of tolerance as a
new character trait…
That kooky, long haired, talks too much, smells
like oil paint friend might be me…Please don’t
cut me down…

Animal hair brushes are not gotten
by merely giving an animal a


haircut...I learned how to paint
with a knife, which also does not
require solvents...

In the past, a gallery could take between 20 &
40 percent, tops...& they were making
money...Lots of money...In fact, it is only since
the advent of the higher percentage takes,
combined with the crude new method of pay as
you go spaces, that galleries have been losing
money hand over fist...

Which says to me three things...Yes, one it is
the economy...War is not great for the art
business...(though it does pick up as a rebound
effect afterwards...) Two, that the older lower
percentage commissions were fine as profit
margins for gallery businesses...& three, that
there is a high correlation between artists being
unhappy with the new percentage split, & a
gallery closing, or being open but being bad-
mouthed by its own artists...


The fact that a gallery owner fears revealing
that information amongst a group of artists
says that something is rotten in Denmark...The
most important person, people, to please in the
art world, is, are, the artist, artists...

Which includes having a huge roster in one
coop...Artists like to feel special, & working in
volume, or from a volume perspective, makes
them feel unloved...

I also want to say that being both an artist & a
gallery owner, in my mind, is like being both a
hunter & conservationist...Most artists hire gal-
leries because they can't handle the business
side of their own brains...Galleries hire artists
because business minds often are not creative,
& business people admire the beauty of the
creative's work...

As an artist, I look for a gallery where the
owner has the mind or the qualiﬁcations of an
M.B.A. ...if they say they are also an artist, I
run...

Hi, I was reading about how you are about to
have a show in Santa Fe & wanted to give you
some courage...Decided not to post again on


someone else's blog, instead, here on Face-
book...

What you wrote about how good your art is(as
a question), made me go have a look...

What I want to say is that your method is what
is captivating...Not that the paintings aren't
good by themselves, but HOW you are getting
them is just so right...It can be hard to see on-
line the difference between someone who goes
out into the wild, & someone who cheats &
traces from a photo...

Alot of people don't realise how hard it is to
go outside to work...I told someone once that
she shouldn't trace from bird photos & she
laughed & scoffed at me saying :" What you
actually want me to go out & ﬁnd this bird in
person?"...Well, yes, was the answer...That is
why artists
are so pre-
cious, be-
cause they
do that sort
of thing...

Anyways,
good luck
with the
show...Like a


well worn scar, it's often the story behind the
scar that makes it special...(make sure to tell
people your stories)(or post a map at the show
with thumbtacks & the places where all the
paintings were painted.

Two: 1)go underwater in your bathtub, hold
your nose, open your eyes, & look at the bub-
ble bath bubbles on the surface of the water...It
takes a few moments to focus, so wait...What
you will see are circles...Transparent circles
overlapping each other like a Venn Diagram, or
if you don’t remember math, just think of many
pieces of paper, in circles, you punched out of
the bigger piece of paper with the
holepunch...(when you needed to put a blank
paper into a three ring binder & it didn’t have
pre-cut holes?) Those overlapping circles you
see are what Georges Seurat saw...Those cir-
cles of bubble bath, (this was Irish Spring, my
favorite), sitting on the surface of water, are
molecules...Molecules of bubble bath...You can
see them with your own two eyes...(some peo-
ple have three eyes, so I write two
eyes)...(Your third eye is the one that knows
stuff your other two don’t)...ok off
topic...Molecules...Anyways my next painting,
work of art is going to be retro...Pointillism is
something I did back in 1993-4...Going to go


back to that for fun...Gold, pale gold, silver, &
rich gold are going to enhance the retro
look...I’m going to use walnut oil sticks over the
metals a bit to maybe add some contour &
depth...The way to avoid nihilism I am told is to
lower my standards...I say, that the way to
avoid nihilism is to be better...Although, being
better might mean expecting less of
myself...Hmmm...Ok, ﬁne...I will stop destroy-
ing decent artwork...I will stop giving away art-
work that is decent...I will stop lowering prices
on artwork that is decent...I will stop saying de-
cent now...

When you sketch from life or memory, then
later use that sketch by transposing it onto a
bigger canvas, you lose detail...Why? because
the small sketchbook you used to draw your
subject was too tiny to delineate every tiny
feather or fur or wrinkle or scar...Then you blow
it up & your subject has huge expanses of
blank space where you don’t remember what
was there...However, this lack of realism
makes God happy maybe...Why? because
God is not crazy about realism...Except that I
read that telling a story with clarity is better
than speaking in tongues...is this a contradic-
tion between the Old & New Testaments? Like


in the Old, an eye for an eye...In the New, turn
the other cheek...Is realism the new black???

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