thanks for the ink! If you like my chalkboard, You should come down to frost park on friday at noon to see some excellent guerrilla art in action. It's the real deal yo.

a special place for the trib:

Okay, so there was some symbolism in Dorothy McCuistion's icon of my work that I totally missed. Dorothy was kind enough to fill me in, here's what she emailed me:

"You figured out most of it. The bird cage has a little piece of newspaper in the bottom (difficult to see where it is hung at Two Vaults) -- a reference to the old adage that today's print ends up on the bottom of tomorrow's bird cage . Nothing so deep as your soul!

Creating the original print piece was my way of responding to your review of the Impromptu Gallery published March 18. The icon show gave me an opportunity to carry it further. And yes, those are your words, just out of context. A copy of the actual review is glued to the outside edge of the box--you'd have to really look for it to see it. There are also a little pair of sunglasses with your face in the reflection glued to the back. I tried to use them on the front, but it didn't work.

The sunny picture surrounding the print is a nod to happy children's art, which usually pictures a happy sun in the top corner of a page and either a flower or tree at the bottom, in the vein of "don't worry, be happy".

The print in the sunglasses is the same that I used in one of my prints in the March exhibit--which you described as having "wallpaper-like blandness". No one would get this but me!

Mostly, the creation was a reminder to me to not take the words of art reviewers too seriously. Unless you're Dale Chihuly, as a local artist it is unusual to have your name in print, so when it is, you pay attention."

thanks, Dorothy!

Oh, and thanks for the Seago tribute in Frost Park, R.R. (aka Nineinchnachos) Well deserved by a fine journalist.