Laid to Rest

So it has been awhile since I last posted here and I apologize to all of my adoring readers, ok the few folks who are my friends and care to look at my ramblings. The reason for the great lapse is simply because I have moved over to the competition to blog. My new site is johncmorris.wordpress.com. I like blogger a lot but I think that wordpress works a little bit better for what I am trying to do, a little more flexible etc. Anyway I hope that you will all follow me over to wordpress.

Thanks JCM

www.johncmorris.wordpress.com

Being Green for a Zine...sorta

So my good pal Jordan is putting together a zine/book of drawings through his new press, Kitty Cat Press. It is a zine of drawings printed in black and white, and he asked a number of friends if they had any drawings sitting around that they wanted to contribute. (The more sitting around the better he said) So looking through some work, I found some drawings I thought might fit the criteria. These are some drawings that I made some time ago, they were ink and water color, and were some of my first attempts using watercolor, post middle school that is. Anyhow most of them were drawings depicting dinosaurs, or monkeys, or both. Anyway I can't wait to see what Jordan comes up with, he always makes great work.

Lost in Translation

So I am excited to report that I have been asked to participate in the Wakaime Art Studio art exhibition in Anjo, Aichi Japan. I am not really sure what I am going to send yet, perhaps some telepathy drawings, I also thought it might be interesting to show images of Japan via WDW, decisions, decisions! If anyone has suggestions I would be happy to entertain them. I have considered even sending some Coloring Colonialism Drawings, so please let me know what you think. This will be the first show abroad that I have had so I want it to be just right. It is doubly exciting because Christina was born in Japan, sometimes things just feel like fate...

The Yakitori House in Epcot from the series 32380

A Proposal

So Christina and I sat down today to do a few telepathy drawings. We have a show coming up in January-February time period of next year (2010) and I thought it would be good to start working on some new work for the exhibition. That being said I also had an ulterior motive for wanting to do some drawings this weekend.

As many of you know Christina and I have known each other since Grad School, and we started to date some time after that, needless to say we have been in each others lives for quite some time now. Recently we have decided that we wanted to make a larger more traditional statement of our commitment to each other, and thus we have decided to get engaged to be married. Well that decision became official this afternoon, and the question was posed telepathically at the end of our drawing session.

This was the final drawing of the afternoon and the telepathic message was "Will You Marry Me?".

She answered "Yes..."

Updates

So we just got back from a wonderful weekend seeing my parents in Athens Ga. It was a whirlwind tour d'force that consisted of a lot of yummy eats, (sadly no Varsity) and marveling at 3 Alpaca's, one that went by the name of Skids, I didn't inquire. All in all it was a grand time.

In addition I got my film back from the Lost Wages trip and I am going to post a few over the next couple of days so please stay tuned.

Slots and Doilies

So we went to Vegas, we had a wonderful time, saw Christina's family, had some yummy food, and of course lost some money. Yes we played the slots, we were on a quarter machine and Christina did not have the hot hand, fortunately we only lost 8 large, dollars that is. It is a strange city, looking out from the 14th floor of the Golden Nugget you can see how the town is surrounded by nothing but desert (one s not two). Talking to a number of locals we got the sense that Vegas has been hit pretty hard by the recent recession, and we noticed that this was the least number of people we have ever seen there. One thing that was kind of fun that we did was go to a little "local" bar, I think it was called beauty, or something similar, anyhow it was closest thing that I have been too that reminds me of the local bars back home in Athens Ga. It was decked out in 50's and 60's salon parafenalia, in fact I sat in one of those big "perm" dome chairs. The DJ was playing 80's music, and it provided a nice backdrop for a trip down memory lane.

So we were there for about 3 nights, and we managed to get back on Sunday, in that we were very lucky because all of the flights were soldout, we had the air travel gods looking out for us because we managed to get the last two seats on the last plane out, flying stand by. Most lucky! So I shot about 4 rolls of film while we were there, and I am looking forward to getting them processed and sharing some images, again it is a very strange place!

Once we got back to Baltimore, we got directly back into our routines, Christina at SWA and myself teaching down at MC, MICA, and holding down the fort at the crib. But on Thursday I was able to break away from the norm to have a little studio visit with Seth Crawford. He is a 2nd year MFA student at MICA who just took down a wonderful thesis show, and is about to start thinking about what next. I saw Mr Crawford's show before we went to Vegas and I asked if we could meet to discuss the availability of a piece from his show. It is an image of Charles Bronson, of Death Wish fame, printed on a Doily. The image is spectacular and I fell immediately in love with it. Long story short it has been added to our collection and we look forward to visitors dropping by having some tea and pondering the importance of Mr Bronson's impact on American Cinema.

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the lovely weather that has been brought in by the season of Spring...

Sweet!

So with the other major Sweet Holiday just passing, and it looking like Vegas will be a go I thought I would take a moment to put up an image that was made at the Telepathy Station back in 2006. We were a part of a show that was put together by Trifocal Projects called Thread and it was held at Artspace in New Haven Ct. Anywho, this was a drawing that came from one of the pairs of visitors who sat down and made a drawing. I have always enjoyed this image, and with the Weather being perfect for our trip to Vegas, and the sweetness of Chocolate still lingering from the weekend, well I thought it was somehow relevant. I hope everyone is having a good start of the week, and I will let you know if we hit it big...

"Low Fat Mayonaise" by Nick a visitor participating with the Telepathy Station at Artspace, New Haven Ct. 2006