Old Man Sipping (?) from bowl WIP 2

32×28 Acrylic underpainting This was closer than anything that followed till I finished it.

Old man sipping tea from bowl. Work in progress– first idea for this

32×28 … where it ended up had nothing to do with tea. though kinda like the crow eyebrows.

#1213 with added blue

30×24″ oil on canvas… I keep thinking these are finished — too soon.

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#1215 “Infrastructure”

35×25″ Oil on canvas

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#1211, 1129 and 1156 reworked

36×24″ Oil over acrylic on canvas
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I saw in a vision….

....thousands of abandoned masks 
rise up from city streets

on a pole tall as Willy Penn's phallic scroll 
                         they flail!
sails signalling the ship of state in irons 
           white flags 
                     their message of surrender 
                                                        gone viral

Goby’s Journal… May 13, 2021

I sent images of work by the PaFa master of figure drawing and anatomy, Al Gury, to my late uncle.
But they are ugly! he complained.

A conversation I wish we could have had, but he was beyond such exchages by then.

You look in the mirror when you’re old, and you realize two things

That you are not what you look like.

And you never were.

I think about this.. about the tradition of portraiture.
Representative art.
Is it a tradition devoted to reifying an illusion? Or does the artist… help us see beyond
what we see,
even while we are seeing it?

The ideal…when applied to physical reality
is always a lie.

Fucking Greeks messed up our minds.