News and views from the Dutch Uncle of dreamland.
This ugly monster is strapped to the light table and CANNOT BE MOVED during its accretion. Unfinished as it is you can certainly see the infantile nature of the spontaneous architecture, the ravaged ground of being, the torture-adoration of the spifflicants. But can you predict what will appear on the right hand, or "modern" side of the paper? Of course you can!
posted by Jim Woodring at 12:38 AM
I was born in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California and enjoyed an exciting childhood full of poetry and paroniria among the snakes, rats and tarantulas of that enchanted realm. I eventually grew into an inquisitive bearlike man who has had three exciting careers; garbage collector, merry-go-round-operator and cartoonist. Some of my work is collected in THE BOOK OF JIM, THE FRANK BOOK and SEEING THINGS (all published by Fantagraphics) and in various toys, fabrics, prints and urban legends. Thank you for your interest.
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My best guess is that there will be a stadium of observers on the right side in tiers of seats, watching this ritual with maws agape.
-varkias
A large bloated creature whose gaping mouth the staricase in the center is descending into?
I'm curious, what brand of pencils and paper do you use for works like this?
I make all of my own paper from wood I raise and slaughter just for that purpose. The charcoal is made from the rubble from burned schools and churches. The pencil bodies are made from slivers of the one, true cross.
All of the other stuff is from Walgreens.
Ha, you don't mess around.
None genuine without this stern visage.
a bat
A white handkerchief is being feverishly flapped in the air by something concealed in the left wing of the papyrus. Beneath lies a tiny dish of salt, a mandarine, and a blurry photograph of the left hand side in better times hallowed by a couple of lit 2 dollar shop candles.
woops! I meant the right wing...a little problem of mine.
i would like some of that sweet, pulpy cake. i am, a "keed". at heart anyways.
Vaguely reminiscent of "The Patuxay" (also known as the Concrete Monster) building in Vientiane, Laos. Cheers!
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