From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 16 2004 - 20:09:08 BST
Hi Marsha,
>Have you jumped?
Nope. I got friends who keep trying to get me to try a jump, maybe I will
this summer.
>I liked Gauguin's bold use of color.
Funny, I didn't really like his choice of colors. I imagined him thinking
"shit, all I got left is three tubes of aquamarine and six shades of brown.
Why didn't I pack more paints instead of all these clothes?"
I liked his carvings.
>Do you paint?
No.
>Or do something else? Where do you get your inspiration? What pushes your
>creativity button?
I play music and write songs. Playing in a band is mainly social, the
music is almost secondary to hanging with the lads, and of course playing
live is social, and saying "here is my new song" to your friends. But
again, the styles are intellectual patterns, sometimes a song is about
society or social situations, and therefore contains an intellectual
pattern, sometimes it's about biology ;-) , which, if it is expressed
broadly enough to be a social statement, can also be an intellectual
pattern.
Often we have freeform jams, which have no style or words or intellectual
meaning, but are very dynamic and usually test our biological limits. As
much as we are trying to be new and daring (it is a real downer to realize
it turned into sweet home alabama), we usually have proven patterns and
licks that we fall back on, but we try to apply in novel ways. It is great
to figure out a new lick and have everyone pick up on it and help latch it.
Sometimes, and this is when it is the most amazing and exciting, everyone
clicks together with individually interesting parts that come together into
an amazing groove. (That's usually when I fuck up.) But then we see if
we've written a song, if we can remember what we were doing.
And I work on my philosophy, that's solitary, though I try to make it social
by coming here.
>I can't agree with you. I'm don't paint for someone else. Painting is a
>very solitary experience. I'm finding my own style based on my own
>internal dialogue. Painting is like life. When painting I play with lost
>and found edges, and so too in life. It's a struggle, but I love it.
>
>MarshaV
You don't like showing them to people? Or, it's just not the point?
Do you paint still lifes, or portraits, or abstract, or landscapes, or the
corner of the room with the sun coming through the window? How do you
choose what to paint next? Do you do multiple attempts at the same idea, or
just one and move on? How long do you spend on each one?
Johnny
_________________________________________________________________
Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers! http://youroffers.msn.com
MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
Mail Archives:
Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net
To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Wed Jun 16 2004 - 20:11:28 BST