Hairy Carrion Arts

New Orleans Billboard Art Project Terri Lloyd (1)

2012-01-01T08:56:00.001-08:00

New Orleans Billboard Art Project Terri Lloyd (1), originally uploaded by The Billboard Art Project.

Pink Buddha and other shenanigans. Check it out.

2011-11-16T15:01:00.001-08:00

The Haggus Society Presents Cohesion Collision:

Images from the Psychomachia series by R.L. Gibson

PSYCHOMACHIA* is the newest series done in collaboration with Arizona-based artist Jerry Portelli. This work reinterprets the Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Holy Virtues in a series of 14 diptychs, one from each artist. The aesthetic theme is the sideshow freak from the circus and fairs of yesteryear–nature’s artwork, if you will.

“My work habit is to explore the physical reality of my reverence for human potential with ‘self as other’ as reoccurring content. The Psychomachia series, challenged me to not rely on facial expression. While every face is unique, humanity regardless of culture or language recognizes facial expression as the key to discovering the true soul. Limiting use of the face allowed me to further explore the physical uniqueness upon which the Seven Deadly Sins & Seven Holy Virtues provide the crux of judgement allowing acceptance of the physical.”

R.L. Gibson is a nationally-shown artist and happily-married mother of one working and “living on vacation” on top of a mountain in Tennessee with work in galleries from New York to Texas.

Gibson works, almost exclusively as a Xerographist, producing complicated layered compositions and then hand-transferring these images to a variety of substrates resulting in a unique monotype.

Xerography, as a medium, has neither a standard place in institutional art instruction nor a documented history. Gibson has spent years refining her hand-palatted technique. The “skips” are not flaws but the unique result of the process.

“I am an Objectivist—that is, I believe in objective reality. This belief is clearly reflected in my work—from color to content. Pieces of Me is a large on-going series, and Psychomachia is my current collaborative series. Each of these bodies of work explores the physical reality of my reverence for human potential. Pieces of Me frequently uses self as other as reoccurring content.”
– R.L. Gibson

In addition to producing her own work and work in collaboration with other artists, Gibson also runs ArtAndArtDeadlines.com, a fun and quirky, food-themed art blog that offers reviews of emerging artists, shows from great galleries, and FREE Art Deadlines and Calls for Entry as an artist’s resource.

*The Psychomachia (Battle for Man's soul) by the Late Antique Latin poet Prudentius is probably the first and most influential "pure" medieval allegory, the first in a long tradition of works as diverse as the Romance of the Rose, Everyman, and Piers Plowman. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychomachia )

Opening reception Saturday, December 10, 2011 6 - 10 pm
Featuring the verse of Ricardo Lira Acuña and violin accompaniment of David Strother.

Reception coincides with the Second Saturday Art Walk.

Exhibition runs through December 30, 2011.

RicRok's Tattoos
6181 Figueroa Street
Highland Park, CA 90042

Ricroks Tattoos is a full-service tattoo business dedicated to consistently providing high customer satisfaction by rendering excellent service and quality products while furnishing an enjoyable atmosphere at an acceptable price/value relationship. We will also maintain a friendly, fair, and creative work environment that respects diversity, ideas and hard work.

http://www.ricrokstattoos.com/

http://www.thehaggussociety.org/

2011-11-01T12:30:00.000-07:00

In conjunction with the 19th Annual Arroyo Arts Collective Discovery Tour

Featuring
photography by Annie Fourgette
the cyclic fabric wrapping artist Laura Brody
ethnographic body adornments by Nina Koumachian Ehlig
the unrefined art of Terri Lloyd
the calioscopic lens of Monica Marsh
the vice of verse by Ricardo Lira Acuna
the strung out ambience of David Strother
Cucuy the wonder bird

plus other shenanigans, surprises, and delights

Attendees MUST pre-register for this event.

Preorder your tix here.

Artists Helping Artists

2011-08-18T14:58:00.000-07:00

Awesome and inspired article by Renee Phillips, on Professional Artist Magazine, a supporter and friend to The Haggus Society.

http://www.professionalartistmag.com/news/2011/aug/18/artists-helping-artists/

Pink Buddha & The Baby Heads in New Orleans

2011-08-09T10:15:00.001-07:00

The Billboard Art Project
New Orleans, LA
Saturday, October 22, 2011 at 12 a.m. to Friday, November 18^th at 11:59 p.m.
Four weeks of art interspersed among advertising
at Pontchartrain Expressway, east bound, just after South Claiborne Avenue.

One dollar.

2011-07-23T13:18:00.001-07:00

Bitch Fest: A Fiscally Sponsored Project Wants YOU!

2011-07-21T13:18:00.000-07:00

http://thehaggussociety.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/btch-fest-2012/?preview=true&preview_id=136&preview_nonce=fbffeb6d1a

Not everyone has a linear
art career trajectory.
Life happens. Right?

The Haggus Society is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of The Haggus Society must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

B*tch Fest is a collaborative vision for an annual exhibition of female art conceived by Terri Lloyd and Monica Marsh, founders of The Haggus Society.

During a conversation last year (2010), Monica and Terri came to the realization that older women are invisible in society, but more specifically in the arts. Even a television show makes reference to the invisibility of people over 40.

Monica and Terri have discussed and surveyed the issues that postpone or delay women’s art careers. There were also the issues of ageism in a youth oriented society (and industry), and the idea that art by women must fit a hygienic mold. Along with these challenges is that there is little to no institutional support for the older female artist.

We seek to change that and the language of the landscape.

Not everyone has a linear art career trajectory. Life happens. Right?

Many women are re-igniting their careers during these highly inflammatory and changing times, and yet we remain under-served.

We have become invisible regardless of our exceptional talent.

We want something, someplace specifically for women like us– multifaceted older women who play hard and work hard; women who are activists, thinkers, and (creative) risk takers; women who get it –AND get what we’re about.

We continue to connect daily with older female artists who push the envelope, don’t conform to polite society or social norms. Women who refuse to compromise, who refuse to compete, and dare to do things their own way.

Our message is resonating with women, young and old, well behaved and not so well behaved.
B*tch Fest is for artists (30-ish and older) who share a vision of empowerment through the arts by challenging social perceptions about age and gender.

Help give voice to a vibrant demographic that is being ignored.

We are not invisible.

First Annual B*tch Fest Projected Date: March 2012

Pop Up Juried Exhibition 3 days (second weekend, dovetailing with NELAA* art walk) during Women’s History Month.

Location Los Angeles, California USA

Local and national call for art November 1, 2011

http:/www.thehaggussociety.org

*Northeast Los Angeles Art, http://www.nelaart.com/

Need Money For Art? Kick Your Funding Into High Gear

2011-07-05T07:44:00.000-07:00

Do you have a creative project in mind and need money to fund it? Use “crowdfunding” to invite others to become a vital part of your project by backing you financially to achieve your goal.

Whether you need $500 or $500,000, this can be a super-effective technique to raise capital. Websites such as www.Kickstarter.com, www.IndieGoGo.com and www.peerbackers.com in the U.S. and www.sponsume.com in the UK, offer you an opportunity to present your ideas and find seed money to make them happen.
Artist Terri Lloyd has a project called B*tch Fest currently on Kickstarter. B*tch Fest has the ambitious goal of raising $47,000 by August 31, 2011 in order to produce a gallery show in Los Angeles in March 2012 featuring the work of mature feminist artists. MORE...

Originally published 7/05/11 by Carolyn Edlund, ArtsyShark.com

Terri Lloyd's B*tch Fest (artistmarketingsalon.wordpress.com)
Crowdfunding Resource List (artistmarketingsalon.wordpress.com)
Kickstarter Highlight - Recipes for the Dead (graphicpolicy.com)
B*tch Fest 2012 (thehaggussociety.wordpress.com)
Crowdfunding: Private Equity Made Accessible (billshrink.com)
Crowdfunding in Germany: Startnext - Tino Kressner (tiburon-tv.com)

Los Angeles: Terri Lloyd, “Professionally Weird” Visual Storyteller and Digital Artist

2011-06-17T10:36:00.000-07:00

“Exiled to the wilderness of nonconformity,” begins a line in Terri Lloyd’s artist statement defining her niche. The line continues with– ”I have found comfort some place between Zen and the professionally weird. ”

Artist Terri Lloyd, comfortable in her self-described “wilderness of nonconformity,” tells visual stories primarily with digital illustration and costumed performance. “I have things to say, so I say them, my way,” Terri said.

In her digital illustrations, Terri creates hybrid visuals using her skills with the Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop programs. She begins working from ideas that take shape within her “chicken scratch style sketches on post-its, bar napkins, ATM receipts, or any other scrap of paper.” Then develops her visual stories using “image components, models, and bits and pieces of popular culture” she finds on the web.

More here:
Yahoo Associated Content
VASA Transmedia Global Project
Marie Kazalia, Author

Learn more about The Haggus Society Kickstarter project here:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/terrilloyd/b-tch-fest

B*tch Fest Needs YOU!

2011-06-02T08:56:00.001-07:00

If you can't donate, then please share far and wide.

The Blackout

2011-04-17T12:54:00.000-07:00

A study of consciousness as a “permeable membrain.”
38 x 56"
© 2011 Terri Lloyd

The Okey Dokey

2011-03-31T16:16:00.000-07:00

© 2011Terri Lloyd
Pink Buddha photo credit: June Choi

Digital Illustration
Image size: 38 x 58
Part of the Pink Buddha series of imagery and performance. Pink Buddha sits thangka style in it’s realm, reminding us through mudras that every thing in this universe is “okey dokey.” Note the constellation of libra in the sky.

CREEPING PRIVATIZATION of BARNSDALL

2011-03-31T11:14:00.000-07:00

CREEPING PRIVATIZATION of BARNSDALL via De-Staffing and De-Funding!!L.A Mayoral candidates must champion Barnsdall and L.A Arts!

by Save Barnsdall on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 3:09pm

Here is what we discovered about Barnsdall Art Center Staffing
(Registration for Spring Session 2011 is Saturday morn April 2,2011)

JAC(Junior) and BAC(BarnsdallArt Center) had 8 staff early 2010 and fell to 1 by July 1,2010

1 Art Center Director NOT REPLACED
2.5 Art Instructors EARLY RETIREMENT.
2 Senior Clerks LAYED OFF/TRANSFERRED.
0.5 Art Instructor RETIRED
1 Art Instructor remains.

Consider that the Winter Session 2011 we advertised here and elsewhere
Record numbers signed up for classes.NO STAFF ADDED.

Remember Today, March 30,2011 only
1 Full time Staffer @ BAC
0 Full time @ JAC

GROSSLY UNFAIR!!
WHY??
L.A City Council and L.A Mayoral Candidates intervene NOW and stop this
CREEPING PRIVATIZATION by de-staffing of Barnsdall Facilities.

Here was the Staff situation on Barnsdall Hill in March 2010.

JAC/BAC (Junior Arts Center/Barnsdall Arts Center) 8
BGT(Barnsdall Gallery Theatre) 2
LAMAG (Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery) 7.5
HH (HollyHock House) 2

Today, March 30,2011 situation on Barnsdall Hill
JAC/BAC (Junior Arts Center/Barnsdall Arts Center) 1
BGT(Barnsdall Gallery Theatre) 0
LAMAG(Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery) 5.5
HH (HollyHock House) 1.0

Last but not least, most of the personnel one sees working at Barnsdall are called 1070s. These part-timers have allotted hours per year and are very vulnerable to cuts. They have been there for years and do the grunt work which makes us all enjoy our park.
Tell the Mayoral candidates and L.A Mayoral candidates to increase the hours of the 1070s with benefits.

The L.A City Controller published on line L.A City salaries.
http://controller.lacity.org/index.htm
Observation:
Just 2 of top Executives of DCA who we asked to save last week(from CAO's elimination proposal) combined easily come to $250,000 minus benefits package.

Is it American or just they be immune and the low pay Barnsdall workers have the DCA Budget balanced on their backs ?

Aline Barnsdall financed and supported the gubernatorial candidacy of Upton Sinclair.
Sinclair ran the E.P.I.C campaign.End Poverty In California.

Aline Barnsdall would be making a similar call today for our friends, the Barnsdall staff.

We invite the Los Angleles Mayoral candidates please stand up for Barnsdall and advocate for Fully Staffed and Funded Barnsdall facilities.

We must STOP CREEPING PRIVATIZATION!!

The RFP crowd on the hill(yes they are here) boast they had investors in place before we were removed from the RFP list.

They bemoan the 'INEFFICIENCY' of Barnsdall and we know the Barnsdall Staff toil for meager pay , do a great thankless job.

MORE IMPORTANT you FRIENDS of 'SAVE BARNSDALL', they believe you are either
too economically strapped or too unaware to stop their machinations and manipulations.

They said we here at Save Barnsdall is 'one person , who will eventually go away', and as kicking a can down the road, they will get their Privatized Barnsdall.THEIR BOASTFUL WORDS !!

Let's show them , they made a BIG COSTLY MISTAKE, and they crossed the wrong community!!

It is not fair.
Write, e-mail, phone the Los Angeles City Councimembers and the L.A Mayor , tell them:

Re-Staff Barnsdall facilities.
Stop Staff Cuts.
Fully and Permanently Fund in Eric Garcetti's words 'The beating Heart of Hollywood' , Barnsdall.

First send off your e-mails and phone calls to all 15 City Council members and the Mayor and let them know you want Barnsdall re-staffed and Fully and Permanently Funded.Get 5 friends... to do the same. They (L.A City Council) just moved $1.5 Billion CRA funds avoid Governor Brown's reach of which they gave $ 52 million to Eli Broad. According to City Controller Wendy Greul as of October 2010, there was still $400 million untapped of ARRA(Obama stimulus) funds for L.A. Finally we saw a document approved by Council President Eric Garcetti for Sunset Junction to tune of $1.5 million (LAND). Do your research guys. Tell us. Sunset Junction is say a weekend. Let's be generous and say a long 4 day weekend. If we are mistaken, will some body tell us Something. We just need a little cash to Fund Barnsdall facilities and staff!! Stop balancing DCA budget on backs on part-time 1070s and Barnsdall staff while you all enjoy 6 figures. It's obscene!! We want ACTION NOW!!

Tears for Japan: A Pink Buddha Performance

2011-03-27T10:41:00.000-07:00

Pink Buddha's response to natural and topical/political events...March 2011. (Notice the typos! No excuses on our part, we thought we had spell checked the document. Silly us.)

@2011 MT Vessels Productions, The Haggus Society

Tears flow for the Fukushima Fifty
so great a love, eckstasis overwhelm
Yet, how do you respond?
How do you respond?

Fighting for gasoline

Here come the warm jets
chemtrail public service
misinformation
right coast finger-pointing
left coast liberal panic
left coast liberal panic

Do you know who to believe?

lacking compassion and respect
wallowing in the smug ignorance
of their half life period
of social insanity
of their half life period
of social insanity

40,000 years and counting

Fuzzy math equations lead us
nowhere
expendability factors into all life
Our life, Earth life
Our life, Earth life

You're expendable when it's business as usual.

Executioner plumes whisper
the Halal slice to my neck.
Save the fucking prayers
for one who believes.
Save your fucking prayers.

Panic is the biologically correct response.

Yellow piss trickles down the legs
of the media priests
Take the communion,
it packs a punch
welcome to Jonestown, now go home
welcome to Jonestown, now go home

The water boils, the kettle screams

Written by Terri Lloyd
Performed by Pink Buddha
Directed by Monica Marsh
Recorded by Monica Marsh

Be Afraid. Be Very Very Afraid.

2011-02-10T09:24:00.000-08:00

Nice way to start LA Art Weekend

2011-01-21T06:52:00.000-08:00

Image by clvngodess via FlickrMore blatant and happy p.r., coming at ya from Artsy Shark, a comprehensive resource for emerging artists. (Not that I'm emerging, but we all love a nice turn of p.r.)

Featured Artist

That's Weird!

2011-01-19T17:32:00.000-08:00

Pink Buddha In The Garden: 3 to show in the That's Weird! exhibition at the 1650 Gallery in Echo Park, Los Angeles. The exhibition runs from Feb. 5 thru March 5, 2011.

Juror: Billy the Mime
Innocent Man, Releasing His Inner Mime - New York Times Article, 2010
Billy the Mime is an avid photo collector and professional weirdo. He has amazed and disturbed audiences across the country with his offbeat performances. The New York Times called Billy the Mime's live show "politically incorrect" and "shockingly unsentimental." Read all about Billy the Mime at http://www.billythemime.net (This guy is my new creative hero!)

AND rumor has it P.B. will be there in person!

Guess who made the cut?

2011-01-10T15:06:00.000-08:00

Book Soon to be published!

About Artists Who Transform, Inspire, Take Initiative,

Step Outside the Box, Turn Pain into Purpose, and

Create Positive Change in the World!

By Renée Phillips

http://www.manhattanarts.com/ourbooks/ArtistsPositiveChange.htm

Pink Buddha Web Sighting

2010-12-12T08:27:00.000-08:00

From the 90042 blog.
Pink Buddha is seen mugging for the camera.

The 90042 Blog posts all sorts of interesting and topical things 90042. Check it out for a little community flavor.

Barnsdall Art Park: What do you mean there's no Plan B?

2010-12-03T09:59:00.000-08:00

What do you mean, “There’s no plan B for Barnsdall?”

City Closing Barnsdall, December 31, 2010.
Plans for privatization to kill 40 year era, cultural gem.

As announced by Olga Garay, General Manager of the Department of Cultural Affairs for the City of Los Angeles on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. Ms. Garay also said that “There is no plan B,” once the money runs out.

The city of Los angeles, Mayor Villaraigosa, and the City Council are currently planning to privatize the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Barnsdall Park. The Mayor and City Council is (are?) currently in discussion with MOCA to take over the gallery by January 1, 2011.

Privatization by MOCA [or any other entity] with the finanical resources to cover the overhead will mean the end of the 40 year era at the Los angeles Municipal Art Gallery [LAMAG] in Barnsdall Park. It is likely the gallery will no longer offer free admission to the public and the broad curatorial viewpoint of the Los Angeles art scene will be lost.

For 40 years the LAMAG has supported the local Los Angeles and southern California Art Scene. The mission of the gallery is to exhibit the work of emerging, mid-career and established artists and bring to the citizens of Los Angeles a viewpoint that is representative of the entire art scene in Southern California. With privatization this viewpoint will be lost. Every year since its inception, the LAMAG has included artwork of local artists through our “Open Call” and Los Angeles Juried” exhibitions. In addition, the work of emerging artists is recognized through the Lorser and Helen Lundeberg Feitelson Arts Fellowship Award and “Newcomers” exhibitions. Mid-career artists are also recognized through the “COLA” grants and exhibitions.

The mission of Barnsdall has always been to serve the myriad communities of the City of Los Angeles through its multifaceted, interdisciplinary facilities and programming, offering professional staff, equipment and resources to community organizations as well as to emerging and mid-career visual artists and performing artists. Barnsdall is the only community arts campus with facilities and programming in the visual arts, performing arts, art classes for youth and adults, and possessing a publicly accessible architectural monument (The Hollyhock House).

Notable solo exhibitions at LAMAG include:
Kim Abeles, Peter Alexander, Martha alf, Carlos Amaraz, Tony Berlant, Judy Dater, Joe Deal, John divola, Connor Everts, Robbert Flick, Jud fine, D.J. Hall, George Herms, John Paul Jones, Mark Lere, Constance Mallison, Barrie Mottishaw, Ann Page, George Page, Stephen Prina, Roland Reiss, and Connie Zehr.

The guest curatorial program at LAMAG has allowed many new and established curators to complete their visions.

The LAMAG has a rich and productive history under directors, Kurt Oppenhiemer, Josine Ianco-Starresl, Edward Leffingwell, Nowl Korten, Mark Greenfield and currently Scott Canty.

No other community based arts organization in Los Angeles provides educational and mentorship opportunities in professional environments with support from professional staff. Because of the City of Los Angeles’ commitment to equal opportunity Barnsdall programming is diverse, inclusive and accessible to all the citizens of the city. This seminal service to the citizenry of Los Angeles is available at low cost and high standards because it is programmed by the city.

Requests from SAVE BARNSDALL COALITION to Council President Eric Garcetti, Councilmembers Tom La Bonge, Herb Wesson, and Ed Reyes

1. Remove Barnsdall facilities from Request For Proposals (RFP) process and find funding to continue city programming and staffing.

2. Form a Barnsdall Community Arts Trust Account for donors to contribute to maintain the public operation and programs of the community arts facilities. This would allow each facility to be proactive in raising funds for its programming and staff.

3. Increase the Transit Occupancy Tax (TOT) the DCA receives from 1% to 2%.

4. Share the 1% Developer Arts Fund to support community arts.

5. Put forth a proposition similar to Prop K to raise funds for community arts programs and staffing for all art centers including existing City operated and new Prop K Youth Arts Centers.

6. Join with Neighborhood Councils to contribute financial support to city run community arts centers.

7. Identify all sources of funds that can fully fund and re-staff the remaining City run art centers.

8. Oppose the policy of the privatization of city government.

Community Vision of Barnsdall Park 2010 & Beyond

1. Programs to remain municipally operated by municipal employees.

2. Continue diverse and inclusive points of view.

3. Establish Barnsdall Community Arts Trust Account to accept donations to fund programming and staff.

4. Strengthen outreach to all communities and populations 5. Increase educational programming.

6. Maintain current mission. The mission of Barnsdall has always been to serve the myriad communities of the City of Los Angeles through its multifaceted, interdisciplinary facilities and programming, offering professional staff, equipment and resources to community organizations as well as to emerging and mid-career visual artists and performing artists.

7. Establish a support group to further develop public relations for Barnsdall programs.

8. Establish an additional financial resource through the restoration of the garage to accommodate a gift shop, tickets sales, and food service.

9. Respect the legacy of Aline Barnsdall.

10. Work with all of Barnsdall’s stakeholders in crafting the future of Barnsdall Facilities.

Call To Action:

If you don’t want this to be the last session of classes and programming at BAC, JAC, MAG and BGT contact:

Eric Garcetti City Council President)
213.473.7010
councilmembergarcetti@lacity.org

Tell him, “I want Barnsdall taken off the public/ private partnership process immediately.”

Please send us a message at Save Barnsdall on Facebook to let us know you made the call.

Pink Buddha Appearance: 11-21-10

2010-11-23T11:25:00.000-08:00

Image by clvngodess via Flickr

Pink Buddha made an appearance just in time for the 18th Annual Discovery Tour.
We planted the garden with babyheads and for about 3 days, the sight was stopping traffic, bringing return viewing and photos from people throughout the community. It was also a big hit for those who stopped by during the tour.

Thanks to everyone who helped make the event possible and shared in all the shenanigans of the day.

Image by clvngodess via Flickr

Special thanks to Monica Marsh for the babyhead and p.b. photos seen here.

Blatant and unapologetic self promotion

2010-10-28T12:32:00.000-07:00

November 21, 2010
Info: www.arroyoartscollective.org

Primarily Ichabod

2010-10-21T14:56:00.000-07:00

Linocut 1997

Everyone immortalized a pet.

Icky is my guy.

Walks like a lion.

Acts like a drag queen.

Whines like a little baby.

And why, oh why is it that in the middle of the longest hottest heatwave in human history, he insists on snuggling up to me as I sweat my nights away?

Ichabod Kittenhead Smith 1995 – 2010
You will be missed my little friend.

Living In A La-La Land of Our Own Dizzy Design

2010-09-19T15:56:00.000-07:00

One of my new favorite living artists, Leisa Rich, interviewed me. I was humbled by her kind words about me. Blushing aside, it's more of the prickly pear cactus type of fun you'd expect from a couple kindred goofballs. I swear she's my creative doppelgänger....

Living In A La-La Land of Our Own Dizzy Design

Oh! And while you're there, check out Leisa's website. Her work is stop you in your tracks ART.

Hey love bugs, there's a new writer at Art SLAM magazine

2010-08-27T11:53:00.000-07:00

Yep, after my tastey little featured artist self-interview, I was granted the opportunity to rave and rant about other artistes. Which I like to do because it's a share the love pay it forward kind of thing. And the deities or ghosty in the sky knows, I can always use some good mojo points.

I do my best to be good, even if my hooves are, well, cloven.

So, check it out. If you want me to be your pimp mamma love goddess, you have to sign yourself up at this here link:

http://artslammagazine.com/
Tap the box that says, "Join the network"

Then visit my page, read my blog post about what I'm looking for and hit me up:
http://supportworldart.ning.com/profile/TerriLloyd

AND one last thing, my articles appear on Tuesdays.
I am not the publisher, and you are not the publisher. You want special placement, then this becomes advertising and you gotta pay for that.

So, are you ready to SLAM dance with me?

Featured Artist of the Day: Art SLAM Magazine

2010-08-20T07:47:00.000-07:00

TERRI LLOYD, WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?

I can’t recall the first time I heard that, but I heard it frequently growing up. That and the entire first-middle-last name chant of impending doom.

“Theresa-Lynn-Lloyd! Get-your-ass-over-here-NOW! Who the HELL do you think you are, pulling a stunt like that?!?”

Yeah. It was always something. That pushing the envelope of reason, screwing around with the boundaries of common sensibility.

Read the entire article here

Digital Production BuZZ interview

2010-08-09T13:17:00.000-07:00

http://www.digitalproductionbuzz.com/BuZZ_Audio/Buzz_100805_Lloyd.mp3

Terri Lloyd - Digital Fine Artist

Terri Lloyd is a Digital Fine Artist who communicates her very strong opinions through her art. She began her love affair with digital art and communications in 1987. Since then, she uses computers and software as tools that help other “creatives” sell themselves through the use of graphic digital resumes. We talk with her this week about creative ways to find work, the fine arts process, and her off-beat sense of humor.

Gun Tourrettes

2010-07-22T16:36:00.001-07:00

If You See Kay

F.U.C.K.

Tell her I'm looking for her

A statement about violence against women.

©2010 Terri Lloyd

It's All Good

2010-06-16T21:27:00.000-07:00

© 2010 Terri Lloyd/Hairy Carrion Arts

It's what's for dinner.
It's what we have done to the environment.
It's what we do to each other.

It's all good.

Contemplations

2010-06-13T16:31:00.001-07:00

Contemplations: This

Contemplations: Here

Contemplations: Now

© Terri Lloyd/Hairy Carrion Arts 2010
Image sizes 38 x 54

The Pinko

2010-05-20T16:54:00.000-07:00

Rigpa

2010-05-10T07:10:00.001-07:00

Rigpa is a Tibetan word, which in general means ‘intelligence’ or ‘awareness’. In Dzogchen, however, the highest teachings in the Buddhist tradition of Tibet, rigpa has a deeper connotation, ‘the innermost nature of the mind’. The whole of the teaching of Buddha is directed towards realizing this, our ultimate nature, the state of omniscience or enlightenment – a truth so universal, so primordial that it goes beyond all limits, and beyond even religion itself.[1] —Sogyal Rinpoche

Rigpa: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RigpaRigpa:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigpa

©2010 Terri Lloyd

The Carnivory of the Pudenda Flora

2010-04-23T15:54:00.001-07:00

The effect of patriarchy on women.
©2010

Deconstucting Che, In 3 Parts

2010-03-10T15:50:00.000-08:00

3 part deconstruction of the pop iconography of Ernesto “Che” Guevara Lynch. Using only one word to tell the story, 530 separate typefaces were used to create the back ground image or pattern. Image 1 is stylized after the AP photo of Che in death. Image 2 is Che after capture and right before execution. Image 3 is believed to be from Che at the U.N. Photo credits will be updated for accuracy.

These images subject to multiple copyrights, 2010.

2010-02-05T14:38:00.000-08:00

Works from Beyond The Horizon are now available for viewing at The Majestical Roof.

88 North Fair Oaks, Suite 102
Pasadena, CA 91103

(626) 844-8886

Beyond The Horizon: Selected Works By Terri Lloyd

2010-01-08T11:11:00.000-08:00

Beyond the horizon
Selected new works by Terri Lloyd

Please join the opening reception celebration at
The Majestical Roof

Saturday, February 13, 2010
6 – 9 p.m.

Terri Lloyd with The Majestical Roof will present new works including The Bunny Gun Amendment, an indictment of gun fetishism.

Claiming an approach that she terms a “whole-istic Zen”, Terri emulsifies decades of commercial and graphic arts experience to generate pointed and often controversial visuals. Seasoning her images with pun and insinuation all the while thumbing her nose at conventional wisdom and other popular absurdities.

“Like advertising, effective advertising, it’s about formulating the right message, not necessarily baffling the audience with high tech circus tricks.”

Beyond The Horizon crosses a few lines of reason taking us into landscapes perhaps we’d rather ignore.

Exhibition runs thru March 13, 2010.

Info:
The Majestical Roof
88 North Fair Oaks, #102
Pasadena, CA 91103
(626) 844-8886

The Bunny Gun Amendment

2009-10-20T10:25:00.000-07:00

Digital Illustration
Archival Print
2009

Bare Arms Against A Rabbit, The Foetal Gun, The Baby Gun Defense.
An indictment of the virulent gun fetishism so popular  today. The Bunny Gun Amendment questions the fear of the other, the blood lust for self defense and who it is that really pays for such a violent freedom.

Thin Blue Rage view 2

2009-10-20T10:23:00.000-07:00

Digital illustration
Archival Print
2009

The Thin Blue Rage View 1

2009-10-20T10:09:00.000-07:00

2009
Digital illustration
Archival Print

Pink Buddha Babyheads: Appearance 1

2009-05-09T11:25:00.001-07:00

PinkBuddhababyheads: Appearance 1
Collaboration project
June Choi - photographer
Terri Lloyd - pink buddha and babyhead creator

All photos © 2009 June Choi Photography
Do not steal or reproduce without express written permission.

June and I have talked about working together on a collaborative project for years. She being a professional photographer and me being a professional art director type of person. Only we've never had a commercial project that demanded need or had a budget that included both of us. Such as it is.

I have been creating babyhead flowers for years. One of my strange recycling absurdist projects. It started when the internet boomed and every ISP was sending out free disks. I decided to keep the disks and use them. Included in this recycled absurdity is also a huge collection of wine corks. I also collect beer caps for a large mosaic (16 x 20 feet) that I will one day execute. Such as it is with my obsessions.

In 2006 there was opportunity to include the babyheads with a solo show of mine. At that time June and I discussed the possibility of taking my babies on the road and doing some crazy photo projects. Two years later, essentially unemployed, we are finally getting this story on the road and then some.

The shoot was supposed to take place in another location. June had asked if I had a big fuzzy pink robe and maybe a shower cap. I don't have the fuzzy pink robe, but assured her that I did have some wacky pajamas with a pink robe. As I was digesting the costume for the shoot, it occurred to me that I had seen some very large Buddha head masks in Chinatown. I make note of things I find visually interesting. One never knows when one will be needing such things for a project. And with us, anything might be project worthy.

In my mind I could see how a big pink head, Buddha's head, would take the concept to the next level of absurdity. It also plays right in visually with the babyhead flowers who sport bindi's.

What transpired are the images you see. It's amazing what happens to a person when they get to wear a new persona and jammies in public.

June art directed this shoot, and I think she did a bang up job (speaking as an art director me self.)

Compassion: Ekstasis

2009-05-01T10:12:00.000-07:00

Eckstasis
2009
Digital illustration

The practice of putting ourselves into the shoes of another, pushing aside our perceptions in order to reach understanding.

The Vessels Of Life Are Not Tools For The Destruction Of Societies

2009-03-01T15:37:00.001-08:00

Vessels
2009

Digital Illustration
Responding to the gender violence of patriarchal structures. Violence against women, girls and female infants is a widely accepted and common practice around the globe. When we accept wars, we are obliged to accept  the atrocities.

Terri Lloyd now showing at Lark Gallery Online

2008-06-27T06:43:00.000-07:00

More blatant self-promotion. Yeah, if I don't toot my own horn (here pull my finger) who will? Oh sure, like YOU'RE going to do this stuff for me. Right. And I've got some land I can sell you just west of Marina Del Rey, real cheap too.

Lark Gallery.

Dr. Phil Save Us From Ourselves

2008-03-05T09:53:00.000-08:00

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Dr. Phil Save Us From Ourselves
2007-2008

48 x 36”
Digital Illustration

Background:
Being fascinated by television pop-psychology and the self-help movement, I have watched Dr. Phil (and others) for years. At first I was enamored with his down-home no-nonsense approach and “Philisms,” those hokey folksy quips of wisdom imparted to his guests with a tactless Texan style.

Underneath that persona of direct, sometimes confrontational tactic of getting real, there was always something nagging at me. That something smelled of an agenda. It was subtle at first. But over the years it had dropped it’s hints, let it’s guard down some. Perhaps it got lazy. Or arrogant. I guess it depends on which side of the paranoia you sit upon.

My suspicions culminated in validation all in one week. I was viewing an episode regarding a young confused girl (18 or 19 years old) who had run off with a boy from Palestine, to Palestine. This intrigued me deeply since it seemed to have come right from a classic work of literature. I was interested in how they would portray this Romeo and Juliette romance. We all know how the original ended.

Right on cue, as if from FOX news, Palestine Romeo was illustrated as an abusive obsessive Moslem who believed he owned this girl. While the blonde haired blue-eyed American Juliette was portrayed as his victim. Although she wasn’t all that innocent, as it turned out, and not quite the victim. More like a spoiled entitled brat who decided to punish her family because they actually were concerned about a relationship that was long distance, had online origins, big cultural and religious differences. (I could go on about bigotry, fear and politics, but won’t.) Not the best start for a relationship, but hey, they were young and dumb and rampant with hormones.

Palestine Romeo and American Juliette were talked in to breaking up on air. Palestine Romeo was visibly distraught. Shakespeare couldn’t have written better television.

At the end of the show American Juliette was asked to admit that she had moved on and was dating a new beau. Dr. Phil called the new fellow in her life a “good ol’ American boy.” I almost fell over. This reeked of anti-Islamic/pro-Zionist propaganda.

A day or two later, while channel surfing, I stumbled upon Dr. Phil again. This time out of context on another channel. I paused to hear what it was the good Doc was discussing and glory hallelujah! Dr. Phil was sharing a TBN (trinity broadcasting network) stage with the Mega-church Bishop TD Jakes. He managed to pick his words wisely, but it all came home. Everything made sense. My suspicions about an agenda had been validated.

About the work:
In Dr. Phil Save Us From Ourselves, the audience is enticed by the sound bytes emanating from America’s best friend, the television. The words spoken from the television are actually a quote from Dr. Phil regarding wearing a social mask. Leaving us to ask, “What mask does the doctor wear? Is what we see the real Phil or is it something else?”

Dr. Phil claims frequently that he didn’t just fall off the turnip truck, (meaning that he isn’t stupid). Yet we see the television is offering the audience one of those proverbial turnips. Is this advertising? Or did we, the audience, just fall off the turnip truck?

Here, the audience are two goats. This is a pun that plays with the mythology of goats eating up everything, including tin cans and that if the audience were Christian, they’d be sheep. But because of my own cynicism, I find the American television viewing audience more akin to goats than sheep.

The hot air balloon perhaps represents the good doctor’s social mask, his persona. Upon closer review of the balloon, one notices a rope and anchor. The anchor is actually a Christian symbol. This pun is obvious and needs no explanation.

The bird is an American robin. Again a pun, Phil McGraw’s wife is named Robin.

Above the balloon is the text, “Turn on. Tune in. Get real.” This is a juxtaposition on the words made famous by 1960s acid guru Timothy Leary and television culture. “Get real” is a standard Philism.

Inciting the goddess

2007-11-10T12:12:00.001-08:00

This image was created for !Presente!, the newspaper of the movement to close the School of the Americas, now called WHINSEC. It's the place where the US Government trains assassins and other criminals of humanity.

I was asked to illustrate an image for an article discussing how militarization abuses gender through partriarchal violence against the female. A tactic to destroy tribes, communities, and civilizations. It's a global issue and plays a prominent role in the history of this country too. The article is to be written by a member of the group Incite.

What we wanted was not to portray the women affected by SOA or WHINSEC as victims. In fact, these women are resisting the dogs of war and like women around the globe, when a group of us get together to accomplish something, there is nothing more beautiful or more powerful in all of god's creation. (If there is a god at all... that's still an open question for me.)

The image is an inconic propaganda statement illustrating the resistance of women against conquest --political, religious or gender.

The circle of female forms is a hybrid of the “circle of friends” pottery of Mexico and Pre-Columbian Art / Tlatilco Sculpture of a Woman. The concept was to use a goddess type of icon (similar to the neolithic Venus of Willendorf) representative of the peoples directly affected by WHINSEC. By using an ancient goddess icon, we are challenged to remember that before there was patriarchy, there was reverence for the earth, the mother, the goddess.

There are five figures in the circle of goddesses. They represent the five universal tribes/colors of people (pink, yellow, red, brown, black).

The winged heart relates directly to the Cheyenne proverb, text in Spanish and English. The wings are modeled after the wings of the Macaw. An endagered bird of Amazonia, prized by the pet trade for it’s personality and colors. A similar fate of all that is considered a natural or marketable resource in the region south of the US border.

It is the determination and power of the women, working together as mother, sister, daughter, grandmother, wife and friend that keeps the wolves (dogs of war, militarization) at bay and heart a float.

And as with everything else on this here little old blog, this image is protected under copyright laws. ©2007 Terri Lloyd

Brand 36: Works on Paper

2007-07-23T14:56:00.000-07:00

The Mommy's Curse (see Dec. 16 '06 post) will be showing at the Thirty-Sixth Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper.
SECRETS & CONFESSIONS: Those which you do not wish to say out loud.
October 6 through November 16, 2007
Brand Library Art Galleries
1601 West Mountain Street
Glendale, CA 91201

Reception and Awards Ceremony October 6, 4 pm until 7 pm
Brand 36

SPONSORS: Associates of the Brand Library and Art Center and the Glendale Public Library, a department of the City of Glendale. The Brand Library Art Galleries offer visitors a professional gallery experience and showcase works by established and emerging artists that educate, enlighten, challenge and enrich people’s lives.

JUROR: Lita Albuquerque completed the largest environmental work ever done on the Antarctic continent, Stellar Axis: Antarctica, through the National Science Foundation Artists and Writers Grants Program in December 2006. Other site specific environmental works which have garnered much critical and public acclaim include: Sol Star at the 1996 Sixth International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt; Spine of the Earth at El Mirage Dry Lake Desert, CA for the Public Broadcasting System and KCET TV’s Artworks/Earthworks documentary aired in May 1990; and the Washington Monument Project in 1980 funded by the International Sculptural Conference, Washington, DC. Albuquerque has exhibited her works at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Le Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Diego Museum of Art, the New York Academy of the Sciences and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Additional information about Lita Albuquerque can be found at http://litaalbuquerque.com and http://stellaraxis.com.

Are you bleeding?

2007-07-01T10:37:00.000-07:00

Question:Where is a cop when you need one?
Answer: Not in LA.

9 hour concert level battery.
Full frontal assault.
There’s no escape.
Can’t drive. Had a drink.

Simple math and science.
Increasing decibels equal to
or greater than ethanol consumed.

Not mine, theirs.

By-product permeates walls,
conversation, flesh and bones.
Turn on all appliances, television, stereo.
There’s no escape “Muthafuckah.”

What would happen if they knew
they aren’t hip or cool
only consumptive sheep.
A product of marketing.
No individuality just mediocrity.

Thought passes quickly
next round loaded, be-otch.
Show me what you working with.

Working on nine hours, muthafuckah.
Grinding down the last
rational nerve. Yo!

Call local police desk.
Listen to them laugh.They know.
System is a joke.
“Hang in there,” they say.
Jerk a knot your noose.

Call communications desk.
Police lingo. You hate lingo.
It separates. Infuriates.

Called FOUR TIMES.
On hold 20 minutes or more.
Times FOUR.

Is this the DMV?

Weekend before the 4th
of July. Oh. Okay, fine.
Thanks. Please come again.
Have a nice day.
Hang in there, baby.

Here’s a joke:
How many hours does it take
to get a cop in LA?
Answer:
Are you bleeding?

Nine hours.
And no, as a matter of fact,
I don’t want to
lean like a cholo.

Thinking of a word. Endure.
Thinking of Iraq.
The image of two vultures talking.
Patience my ass.

If I were a terrorist,
I’d work the weekends.
Holiday weekends. In LA.
No cops. A martyr’s dream.

How many virgins would I get?
I hate Madonna.

The phone rings.11:30.
Hello LAPD.
Does the problem persist?
Raging like Burning Man.
Unit on the way.

I used to believe in the tooth fairy.

Midnight, wishing there was an oasis.
Unit? What unit?
Sound is insanity. White heat.
Serotonin overload. Synapses misfiring.
Madness, pure fucking madness.

Snoring. Exhausted sleep.
Cat snores too. They sleep.
Anger rises, red and hot.
Ahimsa. Do no harm.
But I want to kill. Really I do.

Pick up phone.
Non-emergency dispatch.
Communications desk was it?
12:18. Still on hold.
Pour a glass of wine.

12:37. Wine gone.
Will wonders ever cease?
Some one answers.
Communications Desk was it?

Unit dispatched.
That was 11:30. Clock says 12:40.
Oh, I get it. Say one thing
and do another.

I hate liars. LAPD.

1:00 am. Off.
Question: Where’s that unit?
Answer: Are you bleeding?

Propaganda III World Tour 2007

2007-03-19T08:20:00.000-07:00

Terri Lloyd Now Showing in:

PROPAGANDA III: WORLD TOUR 2007

Propaganda

PROPAGANDA III will tour the globe through 2008, with dozens of one day art shows worldwide - the current schedule includes stops throughout north america, south america, australia, asia, europe, and the middle east. NO art will be sold at any of the shows, although copies of the posters will be available for sale directly through the websites of participating artists. This is NOT a commercial art show, but rather a celebration of free speech + untrammeled freedom of expression. PROPAGANDA III opens in San Francisco on July 4, 2007. The exhibition will travel the world for at least one year, adding posters throughout the tour. The PROPAGANDA III show will close in San Francisco sometime in late 2008.

The final collection will be donated to the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles. With over 50,000 posters, the CSPG archive is the largest collection of Post World War II graphics in the United States, and we are absolutely honored that the posters from PROPAGANDA III will have a permanent home following the world tour.

See the collection here:

Propaganda Gallery Online

Save the Sirenia

2007-03-16T08:38:00.000-07:00

What can one say about the lack of stewardship we consumers insist upon?

By the way, Dugongs and Manatees are not Sea Cows. They are close relatives to the elephant.
The Sea Cow is extinct.

Exerpt from Wikipedia.org:

By 1768, less than 30 years after it had been discovered, Steller's Sea Cow was extinct.

Dugong are hunted for food throughout their wildlife range, usually for their meat and blubber. Also, the seagrass beds which the dugong depend on for food are threatened by eutrophication caused by agricultural and industrial runoff. Due to their shallow water feeding habits, dugong are frequently injured or killed by collisions with motor vessels. Because of their large size, they do not have many natural predators. They only have large ones such as sharks, killer whales, and saltwater crocodiles.

All three species of manatees are listed by the World Conservation Union as vulnerable to extinction, and the current main threat to manatees in the United States is being struck with boats or slashed through with their propellers. Sometimes manatees can live through strikes, and up to 50+ deep slashes and permanent scars have been observed on some manatees off the Florida coast.[2] However, many times the wounds are fatal, and the lungs may even pop out through the chest cavity [3]. It is illegal under Florida law to cause the manatees harm, up to and including death.[4]

Although manatees have no natural predators, they occasionally ingest fishing gear (hooks, metal weights, etc.) while feeding. These foreign materials do not seem to harm manatees, except for monofilament line or string. This can get clogged in the animal's digestive system and slowly kill the animal.

Manatees can also be crushed in water control structures (navigation locks, flood gates, etc.), drown in pipes and culverts, and are occasionally killed from entanglement in fishing gear, primarily crab pot float lines. Manatees are also vulnerable to red tides, blooms of algae which leach oxygen from the water.

Manatees were commonly hunted for their meat by natives of the Caribbean, although this is much less common today.[5]
On June 8, 2006, The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted to reclassify the manatee on Florida's list, to a "threatened" status in that state.[6] While none of the state laws protecting manatees have changed, many wildlife conservationists are not pleased with the removal decision.[7] Manatees remain classified as "endangered" at the federal level.

While humans are allowed to swim with manatees in one area of Florida[8], there have been numerous charges of Americans harrassing and disturbing the manatees in various ways, in addition to the concern about repeated motorboat strikes causing the maiming, disfiguration and death of manatees all across the Florida coast, and this priviledge of swimming with wild manatees may be soon repealed.[9]

The population of manatees in Florida is thought to be between 2,000 and 3,000, yet population estimates are difficult. The number of manatee deaths in Florida caused by humans has been increasing through the years, and now typically accounts for 20%-40% of recorded manatee deaths.[10] In 2006 there were registered confirmed near 100 manatees in Florida killed by human activity, the majority of these, that happened to be discovered by Florida Fish and Wildlife, have been caused by boat strikes.[11]

Teach A Man To Fish And He'll Eat A Tree

2007-02-22T20:08:00.000-08:00

Teach a Man to Fish and He’ll Eat a Tree
Digital Illustration, 2007
Giclée
Edition 1/1
Image Size 36 x 24

T
When it’s no longer enough to simply teach a man to be self-sustaining, how much more will he consume in order to feed the insatiable hunger?

The Mommy's Curse

2006-12-16T17:49:00.000-08:00

Digital Illustration, 2006
Image size: 34 x 50 inches
Giclee
Email for pricing

Movie poster depicting a youth at Disfunction Junction.

A revealing and sad look at how the children end up living the pain the parents inflict, willingly or unwillingly upon them.

It's an American Tradition. Don't believe me? Tune in to Dr. Phil sometime.

Here's the small print:

Another Little Bastard Love Child presents and Allsebrook-Lloyd Family Fiasco in association with Walking Wounded Inc.
music by Gary Allsebrook edited by No TLC Visual Perceptions
design by Disfunction Junction (I said it a decade before SNL ever did!)
Co-producers Sam & Carol Lloyd
Executive Producers Carleen & Stanley Allsebrook
Produced by Two Generations of Addiction & Self Loathing
Story by PTSD Group

Rated Bipolar 21

No one under 21 admitted unless accompanied by psychiatric care specialist.
Graphic scenes of violent physical and psychological abuse, neglect, and abandonment.
Compulsory long term exposure to second hand smoke. Alcohol, illegal and prescription drugs may be needed after viewing.

Rasta Jesus

2006-08-12T08:57:00.000-07:00

Acrylic on Canvas
Circa 1992

Years ago, I got kicked out of a bible study group.

When I most needed spiritual comfort and understanding.

Christian ladies who felt I asked "too many hard questions" and was "too open to heathens and heretics."

You see, I was suicidally depressed and seeking answers.

I thought it might help me to learn about the bible.

Only these gals had an agenda. And it wasn't god's.

It was theirs.

I suggested that perhaps the Hare Krisnas were saints
because they fed the hungry for free every Sunday at their temple.

By their reaction I thought was to be burned at the stake.

Burn the witch!

Yeah, that would be me.

When I suggested that Jesus might not have blue eyes,
blond hair, and pink skin, they freaked out.

Burn the witch!

Yes, that's me.

Hey, I was just interpreting what I was reading.
Historically, geographically, this stands to reason.

Burn the witch!

Yes, me.

So they kicked me out.

Banish the witch.

That's me.

Lately, I hear a similar insanity being preached across the christian networks.

They are all selling the book of Revelations.

Oh Glory be, the Armageddon is here. The Apocalypse is Now! Hoo Wee!

We're going to heaven! Jesus is coming!

No you aren't ALL going. Only 144,000 will be chosen.

Ah the chosen people. Judgement day is everyday here in America.

And what if the name is Hay-seuss?

Not Gee-zus?

Kill them all!

Burn the witch.

It's absurd.

People eat this dung like candy.

I wonder what the godhead is thinking?

Did you hear the news about liquid explosives named "Mother of Satan?"

Come on, people!

Who writes this crap?

Spinal Tap?

I laughed so hard I cried.

Mother of God help us.

The idiots have taken over the asylum.

Burn the witch.

Potato Flowers

2006-07-16T10:56:00.000-07:00

Linocut 1996
hand colored water color
Reprints available.

Was taking two nephews to MOCA, listening to the older nephew (29) speak to the younger nephew (16) about growing up with me in the mix.

It's interesting to see yourself through the memories of someone else.

"I loved going to stay with Jeff and Terri in their loft. There was always a project going on. I'd walk in and look at something that might have been found or broken. And as soon as it was found or broken, it was dedicated to a piece of art.

You also never knew who would be there. I met a lot of other artists, writers and musicians at the loft. It was pretty cool."

Wow. I had forgotten a lot about those days. Mostly because from my perspective, they were hard times. But in they eyes of someone else, I guess they weren't.

I had forgotten about my assemblage works. I don't have any around today. Mostly gave the stuff away as gifts.
I wonder if any survived.

"Terri also used anything and everything. I remember she even used potatoes to create a series of images."

Ah yes. The potato flowers.

Originally carved from potatoes and printed on to a canvas.

Sadly the canvas image was water-based pigments and it got wet.
Beer, art, and buffoonery to blame.

I scanned the image into my computer and printed it out at twice the original size.
Then carved a lino. Each was hand-painted.

What was fun about this period of block printing is that I used whatever was laying around to print the block.
Sometimes I had ink, sometimes enamel paints, or latex. It didn't matter.

My fellow artist and friend, John Peace admired that about me. The willingness to make something with what was on hand. It was, well, artistic to him. (Thanks John!)

Funny.

I pulled Potato Flowers out of the archives recently.
I still find it naively sweet.

Poppy

2006-07-14T07:27:00.000-07:00

digital photo 2004

Orange. I love it.

Vibrant.

Passionate joy.

I love red too.

Different vibe with red. Passionate, yes. But red is power. Red is anger. Red is love. Red can be volitile. Dangerous.

At least for me.

But Orange.
Orange is delightful.

It's magical.

It's joyful.
Optimistic.

It greets us in the morning.

Tickling us with its feathers.

Wake up sleepies.
Another day is here.

And when the day is done,
it whispers good-bye to us as the evening fades into purple.

Promising to be back again at dawn.

I like orange.

Fly-icide

2006-07-14T07:26:00.000-07:00

digital photo 2004

They say truth is often stranger than fiction. I believe it. Sometimes weirdness is right in your own back yard.

While photographing some of my succulents and cacti in bloom, I discovered this scenario. The fly had managed to impale itself on a cactus spine. Through it's right eye.

It perplexed me.

Was this an accident?

Did the fly not see the spines?

What was the deal about how they see?

Was this intentional?

We'll never really quite know how this occurred.

Weeks later, I discovered several ladybugs who had met a similar fate.

Strange.

Cops 3-20

2006-07-14T07:21:00.000-07:00

digital photo 2005

Holllywood, March 20 2005.

Caught in a fracas, I had foresight to whip out the old digital.

My group and I were marching peacefully. We had to. We had a kid with us.

(Yeah, may not have been the smartest choice. Sometimes a babysitter or the absentee dad isn't available. And just for the record, we weren't the only parents teaching their kids about civil liberties, war sucks for everyone, and peace is moral.)

It's not like we go looking for conflict.

Sometimes we simply walk right into it and it flares up around us.

That's what happened here.

The anarchists and the cops got a little, um, impatient with each other.

The next thing I knew was that there was a sea of people moving my direction, quickly.

My pals took off with the kid. It seemed unsafe. It was.

The photo I snapped after this had two cops coming at me with batons and hands ready to push.

I said, "You know, I wouldn't do that if I were you."

It's too bad THAT photo didn't come out.

Notes:
I added a little spaghetti western to this image once I was back at my computer.
It seems to accent the tension.

Dan and Sophia

2006-07-10T15:45:00.000-07:00

Linocut 1997
Hand painted

Sophia and Dan were both damaged goods. Dan had a need to fix what was broken; to rescue the strays. It was his mission. Sophia was in desperate need of someone to love her for her, to put a band-aid on the boo-boos and make it all go away.

She wanted to date Dan --for just one night.

Something about that guy that got to her. It was often embarrassing to witness.

But, Dan had that way about him. Women were drawn to him. I'm still trying to figure it out. I think it's because he wrote and sang songs of a similar vein to Tom Waits or Chuck E. Weiss; was aloof, yet philosophical.

A cross between Maynard G. Krebs and Bukowski.

Dan-de-lion, the drunk monk.

Sophie the heroin monster.

It makes me laugh and shake my head at the same time.
I actually knew these people, quite well.

What does that say about ME?
Gadzooks.

It's not how the story starts that seems to count, but rather how it ends. Yes?

There are three photos of this moment documenting Dan and Sophia having a look-see at her, um, ample tattoo.

They knew I was photographing them. This is important to state.
Dan will tell you otherwise.

The truth is he WAS checking out her tits and tattoo.
We all had a good laugh about it at the time.
It was provocatively innocent.

A zen moment.

In the end, Dan found offense in the work and severed ties with me.
Sophia ended up in rehab, on more than one occaision; got married; had a daughter and still struggles with herself.

Goddess 37

2006-07-10T15:34:00.000-07:00

Linocut 1999
hand colored gouache
NFS

I find most women of my generation are blessed with duality as part of our karmic path. Do we stay home, raise the kids, tend the house? Keep up appearances?

Do we "give it all up" for a career?

What are we giving up? What does it mean to have it all? Is juggling a necessary skill in order to be an effective or fullfilled woman?

Who came up with this shit? (I suspect it was some male dominated marketing firm selling panty hose... another form of modern feminine bondage.)

Or was it time to wake up me to examine and embrace myself?

Notes:
The halo is a combination of pre-Neolithic and Tibetan symbolism.
These symbols represent fertility, the goddess energy, and rebirth.
When we lift off my head and peer down my neck, we see a consistent theme throughout my adult life: an interest in Buddhism.
Do not call me a Buddhist.

Uncle Tom's Condi Rice

2006-07-10T15:32:00.000-07:00

Digital Illustration 2006

Giclee Print
Edition 1/1
Image size: 15 x 19
Archival Framed: 29 1⁄2 x 33 1⁄2
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This pun is set against the backdrop of high ranking U.S. officials serving global corporate interest over those of the everyday American. It was transparent to me who is being served and who is being sold out. I decided to serve up a side dish of irony, some Condi Rice. Just like the minute rice product, no fiber, no substance, no nutritive value.

We wish you a Jerry Xmas and an Abbie New Year

2006-07-10T15:31:00.000-07:00

Digital Illustration 2004
16 x 20" unframed
Giclee print
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Holiday greeting paying homage to two sides of the same coin, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Garcia.

Abbie's image was stolen from Avedon's The Sixties. It felt right to steal the image and then make it my own. I think Abbie would have appreciated my actions.

Garcia was manifested from several images.

Additional bonus items include several quotes from Thomas Jefferson:

"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these means (life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and institute a new government."

"A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government."

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to god."

The Great Vocho

2006-07-10T15:30:00.000-07:00

Digital Illustration 2004
Giclee Print
NFS

Self portrait about what drives me.

I am interested in Buddhism. But do not call me a Buddhist.
I am interested in much about religion, philosophy and such.
But please, don't make me choose a church, or dogma, or format.

Right now what drives me is the Great Vehicle.
How you interpret that is up to you.

Background text:
Om Mane Padme Hum

Om Mani Padme Hum is the mantra of Chenrezig. In the words of Kalu Rinpoche, "Through mantra, we no longer cling to the reality of the speech and sound encountered in life, but experience it as essentially empty. Then confusion of the speech aspect of our being is transformed into enlightened awareness."

That enlightened awareness includes whatever we might need to understand in order to save any beings, including ourselves, from suffering. For that reason the entire Dharma, the entire truth about the nature of suffering and the many ways of removing it's causes, is said to be contained in these six syllables.

Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum

"It is said that the twelve syllables Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum carry the entire blessing of the twelve types of teaching taught by Buddha, which are the essence of His Eightyfour Thousand Dharmas. Therefore to recite the Vajra guru mantra once is the equivalent to the blessing of reciting.....or practicing the whole teaching of the Buddha.

The wisdom mind of Padmasambhava is manifested in the form of the mantra; these twelve syllables are actually the emanation of His wisdom mind, and they are endowed with His entire blessing. The vajra guru mantra is Padmasambhava in the form of sound. So when you invoke Him with the recitation of the twelve syllables, the blessing and merit you obtain is tremendous. In these difficult times, just as there is no Buddha or refuge we can call upon who is more powerful than Padmasambhava, so there is no mantra that is more fitting than the Vajra Guru Mantra."

Pook

2006-07-10T15:29:00.000-07:00

Digital Illustration 2004
Giclee Print
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Pook is a portrait of Ynez Sage Hernandez.

Ynez was always willing to take flight.
She was always willing to blow a few bubbles in the bathtub too.
Because of this, Ynez couldn't be endowed with fairy wings or butterfly wings.
She was just too earthy.

So she got moth wings.

Pook is Ynez's word for fart.

Ynez has never forgiven me for this image.

Oxy-Moron: Not a Rush to Judgement

2006-07-10T15:28:00.000-07:00

Digital Illustration 2004
Giclee print
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There's a reason why they call it dope.

When Rush LImbaugh got busted for gobbling up TENS of thousands of dollars of oxycontin and other opiodal substances, regularly, like candy, I just had to say something.

In doing the research for this work I was amazed to find that this guy point out that he believes white men who get addicted to drugs should go directly to jail. Do not pass go. Do not collect 100 dollars. Just toss the key away.

Interesting.
And yet R.L. was off to rehab.

Factoids:
Wilma Kline was Limbaugh's assistant earning very little who had to make the drug buys for her employer.
Flintstone coture represents the neanderthal consciouness of the subject and his groupies.
The resemblance to a Charm's Blow Pop package is intentional.
Pain medication is often given to seriously ill children in the form of lollipops.

Bee Awake: J5MEO

2006-07-10T15:27:00.000-07:00

Digital Illustration 2001
Giclee
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There are few people who meet up with us along the path that truly live their lives with compassion; to seek pure truth; to challenge conventional wisdom; or simply moving outside of the consuming box.

Jaques Olivier is one of those people.

When I met Jacques my first thougth was, "He's the most buddhalike person I have ever met."

He is also the most psychedelic person I have met.
Yeah, sure, go ahead. Plug in that cliche image. You know the one you are thinking.

"Dirty Hippie."

And I'll tell you that you are wrong.
Because you are.

It takes courage to be a person like Jacques.

It takes faith to walk an honest path. To not get knocked out of orbit because others insist you must be a loser for chasing your dream or daring to live a gentler way.

Think about it.
How honest is your path?
I know mine varies from my truth from time to time.

I remember working at the LA Weekly. For a short time. Jacques worked there. He had given up a managerial post for less stress, more freedom. One evening there was a conversation about this particular subject. (I suspect this came up often by the way the rest of the production team seemed perplexed by Jacque's choices.)

The basic gist was about how Jacques was a fool for giving up positional power, a salary, and that whole material pursuit we are conditioned to buy into.

They couldn't get it. They saw Jacque as insane, stupid, or just plain crazy.

But which one of them was honestly following their bliss, instead of chasing a paycheck?

Notes:
Only once has this image name been exhibited correctly.
The word buddha, means "the awakened one." (You knew that, right?)
The bee represents many things, literal and figurative.
Jacques' band used a bee shaman image as it's logo.

Guilty: Compassion 215

2006-07-10T15:21:00.000-07:00

Digital Illustration
Giclee print
NFS

Homage to Scott Imler, President of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center. Scott had been the President of the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center and was involved with Proposition 215 (California's Compassionate Use Law).

When Mikey (previous post) told me that the LACRC was shut down by the feds and Scott was looking at multiple minimum mandatory sentencing, I was compelled to create this work.

I knew the feds would see Scott as a criminal. A dope dealer. And they pretty much judged him so with their less than ethical shutdown of the LACRC.

The only thing I could find Scott guilty of was compassion.

Notes:
Background text is the actual proposition 215.
Star and bear taken from the original state flag.
Official state colors used for "burst."
Dictionary definition of compassion wraps the star.

The Courtship of Eddie's Fodder

2006-07-10T15:20:00.000-07:00

The Courtship of Eddie's Fodder 2001
Digital Illustration.
Giclee print.
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Michael Simmons is one of my favorite writers and people in general. A little bit gonzo in both aspects.

In celebration of his wonderful spirit, this image was created as a birthday gift.
The background text is one by the subject, “How I Passed The Acid Test” and was published in a book called Psychedelic Trips For The Mind, edited by Paul Krassner.

Michael gave me a copy to read one smokey wet evening.

A wonderful serendipity since I was illustrating him at the time. He had no idea I was creating this little homage.

Yes, there is an American flag in the image. This speaks to our politics and the world around us as creative and sensitive people. Especially during these trying times.

Who's Eddie?

Well, he's Mikey's naughty -very naughty- alter ego.

Pig Bastard: Girl

2006-07-10T15:16:00.000-07:00

Pig Bastard: Girl 2001
Digital Illustration.
Giclee print.
Not for sale.

Ever get a commission from someone who just drove you crazy?
You know the kind of person. They want you do what you do for them.
In your style. Exactly the way they tell you to do it.

And you've got to comply because, well, you are friends.

Pig Bastard: Girl, and it's sister piece, Pig Bastard: Boy, were that experience.

In an effort to keep my sanity, I asked a mutual friend to translate some of my, um, thoughts to Korean text. Okay, I admit it was revenge. My way of saying fuck you. And it did make me feel better.

But when all was said and done, the image did turn out rather lovely.

The original intent was to portray the May September relationship between the subject and his lady friend. Having just finished reading a book about Winter Solstice celebrations and then Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

It was an interesting synchronicity.

So in the spirit of the warm old year, the female subject was colored in warmer tones than the younger, newer subject. A subject that represented the new cold dark year. It seemed to fit the dynamics of this particular relationship as well. I won't bore you with the details. It would just be gossip any way.

The background text translates loosely to:
The reason I date older women is because my mother didn't spank me enough.
The three "medalions" floating in the upper left corner translate literally to Pig Bastard.

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