Started painting the mural today using Comex exterior housepaints. It is exciting and a bit uncomfortable working on the scaffold…I promise you this is going to be colorful. I want to finish it in 2.5 weeks…It will happen. I am Guadalupizing Ganesh in offhand sort of way…psychedelicizing to the max with ripples of color going every which way against a purple backdrop. I am meeting that old interior editor that I am trying to shed with this project….I will be out there working it out. As my friend Dan Webber in Nashville used to say: “There are no rules…only consequences”…I can dig it if you can dig it. Enclosed is a photo taken last week of admitted comexual and consequencial: Anado McLauchlin….is that Jimmy Ray’s shirt?
Archives for February 2007
Guess Who Came for Dinner?
Daniel Elsberg from the Pentagon Papers and other places. Patrice brought him along with his wife Patricia. They live in Berkeley. We had a delightful evening at the dinner table. Kirsten, Lulu, and Leigh Hyams joined us. It was fun and I believe he got a good taste of Alternative San Miguel along with a great Chicken Korma that Richard made. Patrice really knows how to work a room and direct conversation. It was a spirited and delicious evening. The next morning Richard and I went to Patzcuaro with Gerry, Lolita, and Ajita….more about that later.
Remover of Obstacles
I drew out with grafite the first image for the mural outside the studio. It is a Ganesh theme. Of all the millions of Hindu gods and goddesses, I relate to Ganesh the most. Something about an elephant and being called Dumbo as a child. It seems my ears stuck out straight from my head and I got kidded at school and other places. It more or less set the mold for who I am today. I am trying to remove the obstacles that go hand and hand with being a wise guy and transform this energy into True Wisdom…workin’ on it…it takes time. I do know that I will be working on the mural in the morning and late afternoon. It is super hot on that scaffold. This is going to be fun and challenging….Yahoo!!!!!!! Richard took a pic of me starting the mural….I have included it.
This Sporting Life
I have been doing a lot of coming and going for the last month: Austin, Mexico City, and Patzcuaro. In the meantime, I have accomplished a few things…but I really need to get back into a routine. I have started a mural on the side of the house. That literally has me up in the air…on a scaffold. I will keep you posted on the progress. A friend of mine in town, Benjie, is helping me get a catalog together: “Artifacts from the Chapel of Jimmy Ray”. That is trully exciting….and yes….the Chapel reconstruction will
start soon. I hope around mid March or the Beginning of April. I am really going out on a limb when I declare that. My total devotion will be this project….it is great work. It is Life Work. I am absolutely blessed!