I used to lie on the floor of my apartment in the dark with speakers all around me hypnotized by Nordine's voice caressing words words words through the air, telling of strange and wonderful things against a backdrop of the coolest jazz this side of Mars. If you hit "play this page" from the link above, you can experience a good selection -- best to have a fast connection, but it's worth the wait to download one or two just to experience it -- as I say, in the dark -- or in the tub for the first one.
Thinking of all the words on the pages of the phone book made me think of Nordine. That's the connection.
I pulled this Klinish drawing out of the pile since it's the first in which I consciously tried to deal with the edges of the the page better, rather than just blithely slopping around in the middle. I like it enough I may try an actual painting from it. It feels like a landscape to me, so I may use it as a departure point for a larger painting that may take several weeks.
Spent some time today in blissful ignorance tearing the yellow pages into pieces and assembling them, not really looking at the subject matter on the pages, until THIS hit me in the face, so to speak:
I was up to the pages labeled "Escorts - Excavations".
I may get very political in my ordinary blogging, but in my art I've never dealt with "issues". This seemed like an opportunity too good to pass up. So I may end up doing something with it, starting with the title of this entry, "Date Night."