The Lady and the Chimera- first, a sketch on canvas

The Lady and the Chimera, 12"x9", 30.5x23cm, chalk drawing on bone black acrylic on canvas, 2009. Click on image for larger.

The words within the school of fish say, 'peace of the doubly confounded.'

We sewed an opened seam of my daughter's favourite stuffed bear, years old now, 'Honey.' Yesterday when I worked in the toy store a woman bought a beautiful soft bear for a 70 year old woman, a puppet actually, in which she was going to stash chocolate. My Chimera is sort of a cuddly stuffed animal, but a mystical mythic creature too.

The Chimera wears a crown.

There are flowers beneath the woman's feet.

The ocean moves behind her like her wings or a shawl.

Perhaps she's a Venus image, or a rendition. The Zephyr blow Venus to the shore where the Horae wait with a cape of magnolia blossoms among the magnolia trees. Which is slightly different to this image, so I'm not sure.

I'm going to try a Tanya Wolski technique of beginning with a black canvas and moving towards colour, the white. In Wolski's recent paintings the black outlines of the figures is the background peeping through. Sometime I will do a post on her work - I think her one of the most talented artists working today.


                                                    

Lifedrawings

It's been a busy week and I haven't much accomplished, but I did finally populate a Lifedrawings page at my website. Or, rather, found the images between two computers, and, determined to move out of Flickr, uploaded them to their own album at Picasa. The drawings are mostly from 2005-2006.




Or click on a direct link:

Lifedrawings

                                                    

Joe Halder's radio show: The Falling Room

This request is so well written, and his show so interesting, a paean to experimental sound artists, that I copy in as is. I'd like to promote and support Joe Halder's show on a community radio station, CFBU, at Brock University in Saint Catharine's in Ontario. He writes:

Thank you for your reply and permission to play your music/poetry. Here are some facts about the show;

-the name of the program is “The Falling Room”

-“The Falling Room” is a 1 hour show

-“The Falling Room” will broadcast live on Fridays at 8:00PM (EST)

-the Friday live broadcast will also be recorded and re-broadcast on Tuesdays at 12:00AM (the rebroadcast time may change but the live airing will remain a constant)

-you can visit the radio stations website, at cfbu.ca  and click under “program schedule” at the very top of the web page, to view when “The Falling Room” is scheduled to be broadcast

-listeners may choose to hear the show live through the cfbu.ca website. There is a “listen online” link at the top of the page. Depending on where you live, you will have to figure out what 8:00PM or 12:00AM is in your time zone.

As the host of “The Falling Room” I have been on air since April 2009, broadcasting every Friday and Tuesday.

The focus of “The Falling Room” is to feature primarily independent artists who produce experimental, minimalist, ambient, spoken word and avant garde music that falls completely outside the mainstream of commercial music and radio. Since April 2009 I have featured over 70 independent artists that fit the format of the show.

On occasion I have aired more well known artists such as Brian Eno, Pat Methany, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Tangerine Dream, Laurie Anderson, Jean Michel Jarre, The Golden Palominos and Michael Oldfield.

Thanks for unlocking your material on Soundclick, I will begin to download your works and listen to them for potential future broadcast.

To give Artists an idea of the show’s format, I encourage them to listen online at cfbu.ca on Fridays at 8:00PM. I also have a sampler disk which I can mail out featuring some of the past Soundclick artists that have been featured as well as more well known artists.

Here is the contents of “The Falling Room” Sampler Disk

Album: The Falling Room Sampler

Artist: Various

Label: Self Release-Independent

Artist                                        Song

1.   Cometa *                            The Secret Life of a Butcher 1

2.   Omnitoner*                         Ravin Angels

3.   Indian in the Machine *       This Song May Put You In

                                                a Trance

4.   Cometa *                            Light Spiral

5.   Tanakh                               November Tree

6.   Rain Tree Crow                   Blackwater

7.   Richard Truhlar                  From the Imaginary Music

                                                Codex

8.   Michael Chocholak             Tom Badger

9.   Tanakh                               Gently Johnny

10. Indian in the Machine*        First Contact & The Second Coming

11. Omintoner*                         Ghost Dance

12. Phenotypo*             Number 3825 Please Receive

13. DRT*                                   Windoh

* Soundclick Artist

In response to your question about letting you know when I broadcast your material, I will email to you in advance the production sheet (playlist) for the show which will include your work. In addition, if you would like a copy of the show in which you are featured I can burn it to disk and send it to you. I have included the production sheet for December 18, 2009 show, as a sample.

Lastly, if you have any friends or acquaintances who are artists whose material might fit the format of the show please ask them to check out my webpage at

http://members.soundclick.com/halder252

Thanks again.

joe

                                                    

Two new pages at my Art & Writings website

Been working on my Art & Writings website, put up two pages: "Women in Spring, Summer, Autumn & Winter, 2008-2009," and, finally, a "Lifedrawings" page, and redid the Navigation Buttons. You can see the Navigation Buttons below every post, and they are active links to those pages at my website - and you can see which page with a mouse-rollover. I've changed a few of the images, with intention to change the last three whenever. I only put up this website last June but already it is filling up. I've been working on it for 12 hours straight today, finding images, re-sizing them, dealing with html, positioning, layout, etc. etc, and was up till 3am last night a-werking on-the-website.

☆sort of tired☆ of .( ․or perhaps high from°☆.․ ․:)♥staring at a pixelated screen♥:))))♪♫¸¸