--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Shemp, > > I know from past interactions that you appreciate > some of the artworks of a fellow I know. I saw a > *very* rare piece of his tonight that I thought > you would dig hearing about. > > The artist in question is known for the precision > of his line drawing. He's reknowned for his comics, > but his drawing has been compared to some of the > olde masters, and with reason. So anyway, what > I came across tonight was a leftover from the > early days of him teaching himself how to draw. > Early on, he became fascinated with Japanese ink > painting, and the Zen of it. It's a very Now > artform, because the paper that the artist paints > on is so fragile that the entire painting has to > be done in one long brushstroke. If you pause > or lift the brush from the paper, you tear it and > the whole piece goes in the trashbin. > > Anyway, the piece I found that I know you would > just love is from a period in which this artist > was trying to draw like this, in one long stroke, > never lifting his pen from the paper until the > work was finished. He still has a few of the > drawings from that period, but this piece of art > is not even pen on paper. > > It's done on an Etch-a-sketch. > > And it's magnificent. I really loved it, not only > because the drawing is lovely, but because it's > so incredibly fragile. It could never be transported > anywhere, because if you tried to move it very far, > whatever the mechanism is inside an Etch-a-sketch > machine that erases the current painting and creates > a blank "canvas" for the next painting would get > activated during the move. > > The whole thing reminded me of Tibetan sand mandalas. > They're a very ephemeral artform as well. Six or > seven monks work for six or seven months to create > this perfect mandala, painted in colored sand. And > then at the end of the process, because the work of > art really can't be preserved and was never intended > to be preserved in the first place, the monks just > sweep all the sand into a sack, offer it to the gods, > and start on the next mandala. > > This Etch-a-sketch painting is a lot like that. It > has managed to survive all this time, but sooner or > later, it's going to just go away. One of the cats > is going to knock it over, or a maid dusting that > shelf is going to knock it over, and it'll be history. > At that point, the drawing will exist only in the mind > of the artist who created it and the people who were > fortunate enough to see it before it went away. > > I feel fortunate to be one of the latter. I'm just > passing this story along because I have the weird > intuition that you'd appreciate it. > > Unc >
So, um... no one thought to take a photo of it? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
