send some love

why is it that protest work has such little resonance with people? i mean, you look at the work of leon golub, his wife nancy spero, lee bonticou, ed keinholz, and this is really powerful stuff that has such a political and socially challenging viewpoint and what relevance does it have for us today? it means everything, but no one wants to pay any attention to the wars in iraq and afghanistan, it's a shameful state of affairs, especially when you consider that obama wants to escalate the war in afghanistan. my wife and i went through such a terrible ordeal in our lives with her two deployments, yet our friend who lived in chicago, who made such a vocal fact of her participation in all those iraq war protests, showed us zero support when my wife was deployed in iraq. i dont understand it. i dont understand how people have grown so callous and forgetful. these things that were set in motion eight years ago continue to move in their path. the defense department has already been reconfiguring all those deployment schedules of all those army and marine brigades who had been scheduled to go to iraq. there are soldiers that you can lend a hand to, reach out, lend your support to.
www.uso.org
my family and i are no longer connected to the military, but we still know and support those people over in iraq and afghanistan. you should too.

card shards

yay! got the image for the show card for the january show at sagefarm! very nice! im excited about this show, these are huge drawings that i did, the image here is just a detail of two panels

stones from strangers

hello all, look for new work on the website soon, i found my lost software and im trying to catalogue all the work from the last five months. this encaustic here is very new (two days) and im really excited about this medium. yes david, i took her comments as positive, i've just heard it alot. anonymous poster says i complain too much. not really, she doesn't know me, but this is a hard gig and sometimes one has to vent. but point taken anonymous, chin up, chest out, forward march!

they need to find this man's genitals before he goes on another rampage.

little gripes

i dont rant very often, but there was a woman in sagefarm gallery today, suzanne i believe, who was looking at my paintings...nice woman, and i appreciate her being there and checking my work out, she seemed to genuinely respond to it...BUT, she did make some comments that have eaten at me all the rest of the day, things which i have heard before which bug me to no end...1: these would be great bigger, and 2: these need to be in new york chicago san francisco etc. ok people, i am here! right here in taos fucking new mexico and i am so lucky to be able to just be showing where im at. and if you want to see my work large, like 5, 6 ft, then be my patron ok? im a fucking poor working artist and im doing my best working with what i have. and when i have worked large, NO ONE buys em, no one. so if you want to be my patron and step up and support my artistic growth, please, by all means i welcome the relationship. otherwise...well, my computer is fixed but my head is stuck in a mega drawing hole, so updates to my website will be on hold until i finish this work. that being said, man i cant wait to share these with everyone.

another day

the floor of my studio, isn't it lovely...i think my pants get up when im gone and go wild in that place.

yeehaaw

thanks to all the good people who came out and saw me and my work this weekend at the festival here in taos, i really appreciate all the help and compliments, even the rude stuff was fun. thanks especially to randy lagro, here's to kindred spirits.

some news

ok, im in the studio tonight, supposed to be working but mostly ive been cussing out this painting ive been working on. sometimes youre on sometimes youre off. but for those who visit this blog, please note that i have a website up now,

http://www.christopherstjohnfinearts.com/

ive only just started adding work to it, so its a little bare, but fear not, intrepid web divers, it will be full. in the news section of my site i noted that i wont be using this blog anymore, but upon further consideration, i decided that would be foolish. so, continue to look for work and news here, but not as much as i had before. not as if i was posting alot anyway. some other news:

i will have a booth at the labor day arts festival here in taos this weekend, look for me in the park and come buy some stuff! or just say hi, you dont have to part with your dollars if you really dont want to.

passing through

one month since my last post, havent been able to put much on here since the scanner is in the studio and the laptop tends to stay at home, fewer distractions that way when i'm working, have been having a great time in taos so far, busy though, getting ready to buy some land, which is so beautiful out across the gorge. have met some great people in taos and santa fe so far, thanks jill, for the conversation and stopping in to my booth at the art fair in santa fe.

home

so we traveled across an ocean and a desert and found our way to the mountains of new mexico. and the cats came too, which is pretty amazing when you consider a cats point of view, or three cats point of view, which was our burden. somewhere in arizona we acquired a dog, and now the household is a bit more full than it was. so far so good, i have a studio, i have been working my ass off and getting that crazy twitch in my eye that i get when i overwork myself, kachina has been taking it easy, and we've been looking. devin is more concerned about his stuff, mainly his wii, but the movers took the slow boat and weve been camping out in our home for the last month or so. taos is pretty cool, but small...right now thats a good thing.

ages and ages

truth be told, i had sorta forgotten about this little blog of images and words, then i get a nice email from a ready rabbit and its great music, and suddenly, bam. heres a link to their myspace page, its great when i discover music that i like. http://www.myspace.com/readyrabbit check em out, their very cool.

so, hawaii and i have had irreconcilable differences and we are officially splitting up this thursday, dustier and more mountainous places in the west call our names, and we are heeding that call. when we arrive, i think my little blog will get some attention again for a while. i'm always amazed to find out that people read this thing. yeah, i know, jennifer, i'm silly.

in the meantime, this suicidal rabbit has a sad story to tell. enjoy.