thoughts

“Challenged and Re-examined” – a new poem by Thomas Typewriter

poetry

An audience of one face and I can concentrate

Unfortunately

At larger scales all my thoughts spill out

The more the faces, the lesser the balance

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Unfortunately

Panic inflates

Every thought now in doubt

Challenged and re-examined

Slipping away in the ceaseless reshuffling

new art: “The difficulty of organizing ONE SELF’s thoughts” and “In the DISTANCE lie the NEAREST things”

paintings, photography, sculpture
“The difficulty of organizing ONE SELF’S thoughts” by Thomas Typewriter (watercolor & gesso on stretched canvas, 24″ x 30″)
“in the DISTANCE lies the NEAREST things” by Thomas Typewriter

The Two x Twos #8

Art thoughts, assignments for self, The Two x Twos

Previously on Assignment #7

Surprisingly, mainly to myself, I have really been on top getting through the various artistic works in the assignments. In the past, I struggled. It was so hard for me to find the time. With raising my kids, a day job, a night job, going back to college…you know, life…I would miss works. That was why I changed the Two x Two’s from weekly to bi-weekly. Yet with assignment #7 something changed. Shifted even. I am not tired anymore. I hunger. (Mother Wolf could this be you and your pack running through my life again?) Could art be like a salve during a chaotic time. Good art can move you, as the saying goes, but can it heal?

And now Assignment #8

Albums

  1. Aladdin Sane from David Bowie
  2. True (Avicii by Avicii) from Avicii

Cinema

  1. Aladdin (1992)
  2. Dinner For Schmucks (2010)

Literature

  1. Along For the Ride by Sarah Dessen
  2. The Columbian Orator by Caleb Bingham

Comic Books/Graphic Novels

  1. Astro City Vol. 04: Tarnished Angel
  2. Astro City Vol. 05: Local Heroes

Video Games

  1. Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash (3DS)
  2. Bomberman GB (Gameboy)
  3. Dr. Mario (Gameboy)

Update: My Bomberman GB cartridge is not working, so I am substituting it with Dr. Mario.

From the Desk of Thomas Typewriter 06/29/2020

Art thoughts, From the desk of Thomas Typewriter

A studio update

  1. The Great Works Project

As always, TGWP moves on. I have been working on season 05. It will probably take me another week or two to finish the rough drafts. I like to write the episodes then let them sit and percolate before publishing them. That is why I am working on season 05, even though I am publishing season 02. I view my subconscious as a writing partner and I like to give them a chance to review and rewrite.

  1. Up Late, Late at Night

I have finished the script for season 01, episode 01. Ophidia wants storyboards completed before we start building puppets or filming anything. We’ll see how that goes.

  1. The Script Illuminated

I completed and posted the rough drafts from the first page of the script. The question I am wrestling with now is do I create the illustrations physically or digitally. If physically, then I would need markers, bristol board, rubber cement, and an x-acto knife. If digitally, then I would need to install Corel Draw onto my desktop and laptop. 

  1. Untitled project

Can I help my city, my community, be better? I honestly don’t know. But I have to try and for me the schools are the best place to start. 

  1. A prayer to Brighid

Yesterday, while contemplating your grace, I saw your burning hand. A golden handprint of blazing light and curving lines, it called out to me. Touch my hand, you said, and know the arts, for I am art and art is me. I so wanted to reach out, to place my hand in yours.