A Neither Blue nor Red October

All painting – the painting of the past as well as of the present – shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color.

- Piet Mondrian

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

-Andy Warhol

What I'm Doing

Lots! You’ll see. Literally, just scroll down. I’ve started on a few  abstracts. Also working on two of the Signs. 

What I've been Reading 

Clariel – Garth Nix

Bold Aims for Art in a Staid Capital (Melissa Chiu Takes Over at the Hirshhorn Museum) by Graham Bowley

Art Preview: “The Singing and the Silence” at the American Art Museum by Tanya Pai

Pop Out!: Queer Warhol- Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, José Esteban Muñoz

Modes of Disclosure: Construction of a Gay identity and the Rise of Pop Art- Kenneth E. Silver

What I've been Listening to 

Hang Me Up To Dry – Cold War Kids

Rolling with the Punches – The Blue Stones

Rock n’ Roll Suicide – David Bowie

Bad Habit – The Kooks

Love Interruption – Jack White

The Lethal Temptress – The Mendoza Line

Bitch – Plastiscines

Careful You – TV on Radio

Mission Control – Dandy Warhols

Blood – My Chemical Romance

God Help the Girl – God Help the Girl

Maneater – Nelly Furtado

Map of the World – Monsters of Folk

A Little Irony – Tom Milsom

Cry Like a Ghost – Passion Pit

Beauty Queen – Foxes

Tea for Two – Blossum Dearie

Sweet Transvestite – Rocky Horror Picture Show

What I've been thinking About

Jan Oppenheim, Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)

courtesy of Wikimedia

Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, Picasso 

courtesy of Wikimedia

I Saw a Figure 5 in Gold, Charles Demuth

courtesy of Wikimedia

Portrait of a German Officer, Marseden Hartley

courtesy of Wikimedia

Invisible Sculpture, Andy Warhol

courtesy of Artnet

The Artist is Present, Marina Abramović

courtesy of Wikimedia

Shadow, Andy Warhol

courtesy of Artnet

Andy Warhol on the couch at the Factory

courtesy of The Guardian 

Target with Plaster Casts, Jasper Johns

courtesy of Artnet

What I've been seeing 

Spontaneous Laundry shoot because Ellen likes the smell of clean laundry 

unfinished. 

Possible new subject for one of the signs?

My neighbor's door this month

Shadows!

Monthly Image/s Ellen has taken of me

My attempts at taking a picture of an ice cream cone in a strange location. They were not successful

Picture of me with the one eyed yarn creatures my suite made for halloween 

Monthly Selfie/s

My attempts at vaudeville. Also unsuccessful 

Selfie using a light

-xoxo

E.

P.S. Happy Halloween!