This blog has been one!
can you feel it? I have been M.I.A, with out the success though. Please forgive me, not only have the posts been less visual, and more critical, if that. I have just damn near seemed to of given up!
Not true!
The holidays are here, and I have been fully entrenched in my website building, on a personal basis. Though a one sided relationship it continues to be. I have shown myself, though, more things in the past week. then I ever thought I could in dear ol’ dreamweaver. Now I know why they call it so.
Three more televisions met their maker, and therefor came home with me. If only I could get outside to spray them white and not get sprayed myself. It is too cold and wet. A shame. I am working on 3 new pieces though, another dypteuq along with one large one.
With the exception of a few. you all did let me down, with a call to arms. Or memories. Please do e-mail. Please.
Been working hard on these things, among others:
-my website
-finding a job
-a zine / art book
-a couple of logos
-new pieces
*and first and foremost ideas for the DWR window display.
With all of this said. it is the holidays. And I am out of town. I wish everyone a happy _________. When the holidays are up, I will be posting more, and more visually too! Promised.
Cheers
—James
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Been dipping in—to this lately, getting it done to this. A new week. New posts coming straight to your face.
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I would like to ask everyone for a minute of their time, to tell me about a time. A time when you felt so connected to something you saw on television. It can be anything, any moment, public, private, sad, happy, funny, whatever it may be. You name it, I want to know about it. Please e-mail me at james@jameslawrencehughes.com or leave a comment below (if you prefer to stay anonymous.)
(I remember waking up at 5 a.m. to get off to school as a young man, all the while watching Princess Diana’s very public funeral procession on the tube. I still remember how a card scripted with “Mummy” sat on one of many floral arrangements atop her casket.)
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This Mural was a take on contemporary community murals. It pulls from the positives and negatives from a community (the section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in which I used to live.) While trying to make light of a problem in a positive and fun, heartfelt manner. The mural was up for roughly 4 months, or until the construction crew had finished the new building that was going up at the site.
Above:
Fresh Bricks Drown Out Heels Clicked
2009
Mural
Digital Print, wheat pasted
6.5 feet x 10.5 feet
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As the first month of my blogging life came to end, I just wanted to say something.
To everyone that has looked at this site, passed it on, etc… I am grateful to you. I hope as the new month has begun I can continue to turn out work and make this blog even more enjoyable to you. I also hope I can attract new on lookers, and people who are genuinely interested in creating and working together, as well as people who are just straight up in it for looking on.
This blog has caused my life to take a new turn. Giving me something, I think everyone with a fresh piece of paper in their hand and flipped over tassle on their head, worries about. Having a fire under their ass, that isn’t a teacher, to do their thing. I can only hope this blog stays the part for me, and it grows as hopefully I grow with it.
I look forward to the new work, and hopefully the new ventures that may come. As well as the new relationships that may form, which I welcome and hope happen. Hopefully new projects and collaborations will come with both.
Thank you, once again.
-James
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These are the photographs of my latest piece, which was exhibited at the latest Hidden Wisdom show.
Above:
My grandfather used to play in college. Oh really? My father did too.
2009
Silkscreen / Monoprint (Oil) on spray painted 21 inch televisions
Diptych
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Been sitting around Virginia these past few days, eating turkey many a way. And then some. Again though, away from the computer and studio, but again Im not necessarily complaining. I will be returning tonight, and hitting the books hard as my mom and everyone else’s mother used to say, tomorrow or Monday. (With no teacher to report to anymore.) Thank you to the great Judy McVicker for a great turkey to end a three year hiatus.
UPDATE: That December window display has been pushed back to the month of January. Starting the new year off right I’d say. Those photographs of the new piece have been pushed back till tomorrow.
See you in New York.
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Casey and I have been doing a whole lot of this lately:
and also a whole lot of this:
So now I can do this:
Might not be an East Bay Funk, but it was a good dunk. Today I will be working on some sketches for the DWR window display, I will post them later. Also I should be picking up my pieces today, so I will post pictures later on in the day of that as well. Stay tuned yo!
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So this is what the end of the week had in store for me. Above is a bit of the process for getting the beginnings of my new project going. The piece that comes from this process is a diptych, (Silkscreened / Mono print – Oil) entitled: My grandfather used to play in college. Oh really? my father did too. Images of the final pieces will be up tonight or tomorrow.
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