Ideational Art Adventure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Cage


all texts are transparencies

The Flaneur eternally returns

to cryptozoic museums of art

A well known work

of conceptual art,

can't remember the artist's name

Trance like film
projected on the wall

spooky chanting

Fire on snow
Survivalism

Ingres
paint-by-number

 

ZAJ

I'd almost forgotten,

saw them perform

at UMass Amherst

Those were the days

Willoughby Sharpe performed

naked 24/7 hand-cuffed to a bedframe

Chris Burden

after being shot for art

Lowell Darling

Postcard exchange

 with William S. Burroughs

Lowell ran for governor

of California

as an art project

Why Warhol?

These might be

appropriations by another artist

Ant Farm

MEDIA BURN at the Cow Palace

there were facsimile hand-outs here

I wandered too far

out of the concept

into Tibetan Buddhism

Botero

Chubby torture porn

Tapestries

 At the entrance

Kinetic art

Tinguely

Push the button and

the round shield spins

and a sword comes at you

The dots move about

Copper Spiral

the original

imaginal

kinetic art

Rothko

contemplation

Jess

Pebbly impasto

Robert Duncan's hubby

Let us never forget

Mamie,

they won't let us

Turner

The problem of painting

Goes way back

Alternatives

proliferate

Pat O'Neill

Frozen orange juice

with pickle

The cramped café

Seems like everyone

is either on stage

or on line

Uber alles

entrance to

eum

Time to make trails

in the sunset

Same sunlight

a  BART ride away

Going home

like Leonard Cohen

3 November 2016

Today So Tempting

Finished photo-essays ready to go

but it's so much fun to post

images and experiences 

almost as they happen

 Have a safeway Xmas

 Imagery I welcome

regardless of its

commercial intent

 Jocular brown bear doll

over the frozen food aisle

 Mean spirit

of Xmas

 Candy canes

by the bucket load

at the sugar store next door

 Upside down Xmas tree

hovers over bins

of bon-bons

 Fall in in evidence

Alcatraz at Benvenue

my old neighborhood

 of twenty years past

 Unlike Gary Snyder

who's shack on a nearby street

inspired The Dharma Bums,

I had more comfortable lodging

 Ultra violet

buds in shadow

 The exquisite outdoors

on peaceful sidewalks

this time of the year

Grace of roses

Something was broken

then positioned 

on the sidewalk

someone's badge of guilt

Le Flaneur 

as wandering 

contemplative

always 

to be divided

 never to be put together again

 Attractive landscape
a garden corner

on Woolsey

 First Nation activist

who ran for mayor from jail

lost again this election

 Sleepy vista

 on Benvenue

My proverbial 

Garden path in autumn

Arriving just now 

here at the Claremont Library

17 November 2016