fraudulent paintings

Fraudulency.

Hair called real hair — then there are wigs. Teeth called real teeth — then there are false teeth. Official money — counterfeit money. It’s the bane of psychic research. If there be psychic phenomena, there must be fraudulent psychic phenomena. So desperate is the situation here that Carrington argues that, even if Palladino be caught cheating, that is not to say that all her phenomena are fraudulent. My own version is: that nothing, indicates anything, in a positive sense, because, in a positive sense, there is nothing to be indicated. Everything that is called true must merge away indistinguishably into something called false. Both are expressions of the same underlying quasiness, and are continuous. Fraudulent antiquarian relics are very common, but they are not more common than are fraudulent paintings.

Charles Fort Book of the Damned here

pencil, graphite and oil pastel on paper, a5, 2014

 

treasure

wood

pencil, graphite and oil pastel on paper, a5, 2014

memory

We comprehend… that nuclear power is a real danger for mankind, that over-crowding of the planet is the greatest danger of all. We have understood that the destruction of the environment is another enormous danger. But I truly believe that the lack of adequate imagery is a danger of the same magnitude. It is as serious a defect as being without memory. What have we done to our images? What have we done to our embarrassed landscapes? I have said this before and will repeat it again as long as I am able to talk: if we do not develop adequate images we will die out like dinosaurs.

Werner Herzog; Herzog on Herzog 2002.

pencil and sanguine in sketchbook, a5, 2013

appreciate light

watch this

crowns

FOOL No, faith, lords and great men will not let me. If I had a monopoly out, they would have part on ’t. And ladies too— they will not let me have all fool to myself; they’ll be snatching. Give me an egg, nuncle, and I’ll give thee two crowns.

King Lear. Shakespeare.

pencil, graphite &oil pastel, 297 x 210 mm, 2014

pencil, graphite &oil pastel, 145 x 170 mm, 2014

pie

There was a fat lady from Eye
Who felt she was likely to die;
But for fear that once dead
She would not be well-fed,
She gulped down a pig,a cow, a sheep,twelve buns, a seven-layer cake, four cups of coffee, and a green apple pie.

– Anon

pencil, graphite &oil pastel, 297 x 210 mm, 2014

 

i am waiting on a book. and exploring countryside. it’s quite spooky around here.

head

 As soon as one identifies, challenges and overcomes illegitimate power, he or she is an anarchist. Most people are anarchists.

Noam Chomsky.

 

pencil, graphite &oil pastel, 297 x 210 mm, 2014

ofuku

sanguine on graph paper, 150 x 100 mm, 2014

#2

Set III’ is composed of nine equal elements.. ..they fill the space, but I am not interested in the physical aspect of filling. I want the work to become an energy centre, like an atomic station. It’s the same principle again: transmitter and receiver. The receiver is the same as the transmitter, only in felt. It is a totalization. The spectator becomes the program. The spectator, represented by the felt, equals the program.

Interview with Willoughby Sharp, 1969; as quoted in Energy Plan for the Western man – Joseph Beuys in America.

graphite, pencil & oil pastel, 297 x 210 mm, 2014

 

a dog going about his business.