17 October 2023 I was the barkeep for sparks. The abject category, the narcissistic ecstasy of the ego in harmony when all categories have collapsed, the similar but improper, the almost slum but still delightful, the out of all meaning, that which is beyond all meaning. This painting is perhaps a palette cleanser, between courses, light, delicate, disinfecting, cleansing. I see Ashteroth with her bird-feet, a carnivorous plant eating one of Santa Claus’ elves, who seems to be wearing only a hat and a pair of red socks, a preacher at the climax of his sermon, a swan with a snake head spitting venom, a boy with two faces, has the ground fallen away? Are we in the air now? The Dionysian areas seem to have cleaned up their act. The sun-bleached sea sand from the Caribbean now harmonizes with it. Unbearably light. The old dog. It's as if this painting has been through the washing machine with skip detergent, many times, and the fabric has become thin, almost transparent. To build the dam they diverted the flow of the river by constructing a canal. When the dam construction was completed they closed off the canal. How easy it would be to break the dam by opening it or by blasting that small construction obstruction in the canal. But what would happen to the giant dam slugs? Also sometimes called the big dicks. And all the other dam creatures that evolved? They seem washed out, diluted, less defined. The white walls of light that border this world have drawn blood from the preacher's hand, who perhaps carelessly, in a moment of excitement, let his hand touch the searing white-hot light. As this world starts to fade away.

25 October 2023

The bronze mirror of self-image, the slumbering kitty, the sated Sylvester, the giant cyclops squid, the hungry wolf, the old bearded man, the weeds of memory, the weeds of consecutive consequence, the shell of origin, the great sea-water mountains, Medusa, Thripont Island, the rose, Rosewater Bay, feisty fisty fiesta island, sea-serpent/serpent-see, the giant dragonfly, the bearded old lady, lake of teleportation.