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Today, the third anniversary of tinsquo’s launch, seems a worthy – or at least traditional – moment to review some of the notable posts and developments of the past twelve months:
• A good portion of the year was engaged with the painting that would become Returning Wounded. The publication of the painting’s corresponding time-lapse video, prompted a leap into the wild, democratic bazaar of human expression known as YouTube.
• With the project Addressing de Kooning, I engaged in a little public service graffiti – posting informational plaques on the street recognizing Willem de Kooning’s principle New York City studios. The project was an education in what constitutes the public square in today’s Manhattan: light poles. The installations share space with van-for-hire ads, offers of Spanish tutoring and concert promotions. The surrounding flyers come and go, but amazingly – and in an inspiring example of civil civic discourse - the Addressing de Kooning posters continue to remain intact and unmarred.
• My magazine painting discipline experienced a spontaneous eruption when, out of the blue, the figure receded and in its place rose mountain ranges to the horizon. (This landscape emergence finds further articulation in the new oil painting rapidly nearly completion. Stay tuned.)
• Some of my favorite drawing titles: “outlier on the range,” “itinerant semblance,” and “gee willikers to power.” Another favorite, “premise en scène,” was a title held in reserve for years, but, as with the pop stoppage paintings, I no longer valued being a custodian of a taunting potentiality.
• For reasons that elude clarification, the drawing, “out and about proxemicist,” feels like a destination arrived.
• Word paintings (or what I call paintings – to date, they’re graphite on paper) had been a site staple the first and second years but went mostly mute during this last orbit. As concerns words, I guess, there’s been “nuff said.”
All my best to those of you who’ve written, commented and viewed tinsquo with interest these past three years. As to the future, the only thing for sure is that anything is possible.