I recall Darger blowing my mind at the Outsider show in LA a number of years ago. The work seemed more like a transcript than an imaginative feat. There was also a huge chlorine green glowing Basquiat somewhere in the same museum & it seemed so paltry after Darger,sad really that such talent was goaded into showboating
& masterpeice making. Poor Jean Michel or any artist for that matter is better off as a janitor. Then, a few years ago in Chiapas, at the Mayan
ruins of Palenque, I ran into one of the Vivian girls while I was coming down the mountain boom boom boom. I gave her all the money I had
on me & she gave me an orange. I fell to my knees weeping & of course she was gone. A German
anthropologist later explained to me
that zooomorphic hermaphrodites
still living in the caves around Palenque have been seen by other
like minded & gentle lurkers. Who needs to make things up? I can't even tell you what I saw at the Buffalo Jump 3 years ago ,Steve,
but I can draw her when I see you.
did you still have the orange??
Lovely.
These sorts of experiences do raise the question "Why make things up?" or even "Why make things?" But for reasons not completly understood by me, we come around to making things again. It is partially an effort to pass such experiences on, wouldn't you say?......hmmm....having re-read your post......
Yes, I'd like to see a drawing of her.
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- frank 4-13-2001 7:40 am
did you still have the orange??
- Skinny 4-13-2001 4:40 pm [1 comment]
Lovely.
These sorts of experiences do raise the question "Why make things up?" or even "Why make things?" But for reasons not completly understood by me, we come around to making things again. It is partially an effort to pass such experiences on, wouldn't you say?......hmmm....having re-read your post......
Yes, I'd like to see a drawing of her.
- steve 4-15-2001 6:27 pm [1 comment]