STORYLINE

SPIRIT DIRECTION

PLANT SPIRIT WORLD

EVOLUTION - SHAPE SHIFTING

TWO DIRECTIONS

OPENING

SHADES OF GREEN

GREEN SERIES

IT'S WHAT I LOVE-GREEN SERIES

IT'S WHAT YOU LOVE-GREEN SERIES

HOUSE #11

SIDE

JOHN LEE

JOHN LEE, painter

This evening John Lee spoke about his work and showed slides. 

• His first painting after long period of not painting: an armchair (thought of chair as his father)
  

Influences: Reds Groom, Morandi, Rault, Philip Herftern(sp)

"I think if my work was never seen, I'd be a painter," John Lee (check with Mr. Lee on accurancy of this quote.)

Lee described the work of an artist who sculpted the area surrounding an image.

Recommendation: Detour with Ann Sauvage. Reference to Basic Instinct, Double Indemnity, Play it Misty For Me,

ON THE SURFACE

SURPRISE

IN PROCESS

Fear of finishing, what is there to loose?

OCEAN BREEZE

She moved in Sunday morning. Thought he would change, love her like in her dreams. Late Tuesday afternoon her mother called and asked how could she? There was too much to explain. The ocean breezes. The sounds coming in from the street. Already she felt at home. Five hours until his return.

OFF THE WALL

BEING BORN

STORY UNFOLDING

She saw the old house first, half hidden in the heavy maple branches, as she crested the hill. She turned her eyes to the right and noticed the country store and the people gathered on its porch.  She'd been pedaling for what seemed like hours, actually not quite two, and she was tired and thirsty.  She glanced from the store  back to the house.  It was then she noticed the gravestones in the side yard.

STORY INVOLVING HOUSE

A NUMBER OF REACTIONS

A REACTION CAN ONLY HAPPEN ONCE

SOUND PLACE

ACCEPT ALL TURNS

Wanted to make sections for individual drawings, little pictures in the whole, but things took a turn in another direction and in the end I didn't like all of the windows.. I am not pleased with this piece.

FOUNDATION

Move from the newsprint to the better paper.

STEP TWO

SLOWLY NOT REALLY

Missing, hidden, not mistaken.

MUCH HAS HAPPENED

Since last entry.. I've been asked if I am a painter.  

Two people in studio next to me, I met.  One saw my work.. made a comment.. since he spoke little English, and since he said,"Slowly", I am thinking that he meant to slow down.. 

Ah.. my perfect freedom has been interrupted.. there has entered performance piece....

Back to art for art's sake.. 

 The opposite was called for.. 

DO MUCH

What happens, if left to my own devices.. first thing out 

ART FOR ART'S SAKE

Beginning fellowship at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, June 20, 2009.

L'art pour l'art" (translated as "art for art's sake") is credited to Théophile Gautier (1811–1872). Gautier, not first to use this phrase.  Art, separate from sentimentalism  — going against thought that the value of art was to serve moral or didactic purpose.