Abstract paintings of Will Dockery

[Will Dockery]

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.

These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted plastics:

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

[msifg]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.
--
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

cool!

my dad just sent me a bunch of abstract art.

it's some of my favorite kind of art.

my dad paints on a regular basis.

thanks for sharing.

(sharks beware:
i've got a new pair of teeth.)

[Will Dockery]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons
you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most

welcome.

Post by Will Dockery
cool!
my dad just sent me a bunch of abstract art.
it's some of my favorite kind of art.
my dad paints on a regular basis.

Are any of your father's works online anywhere? I'd like to check those out,
since abstract is by far my favorite form.

I hope to somedays get some of Sulzbach's work scanned and online, but he's
such a hermit-type, living out in the wouds of Alabama, it'll be some trick
getting that done.

Post by Will Dockery
thanks for sharing.
i've got a new pair of teeth.)

This unsent post I just found in my "Drafts" section, from last year, of
another old-time artist friend of mine, you might enjoy, as well:

Here are galleries of Barfield, my teacher, who has been highly influenced
by Aborigine art and culture...

The art of Dan Barfield:

http://www.danbarfield.com/index.php

About Dan Barfield posted 2008-01-28 11:22:00 by Dan
I have often been asked by critics and students for the influences that have
shaped my "philosophy of art." I rattle off a few well known names and a few
well known "schools" of art which seems to satisfy them.The truth is....I
don't have a philosophy of art. My paintings grow out of my philosophy of
life and from the experiences of the life that I live and have lived since
childhood.

I grew up along the east coast between Savannah, Georgia and Jacksonville,
Florida, when that coast was still wild and undeveloped. School was a prison
for me, a thing to be endured only long enough to escape into the birdsong
silence and deep shadows of the woods and river swamps, or the sun washed
marshes and sea islands of the coast.
Then, as all teen-agers must, there came a time when I rebelled against this
life. I left this life behind and went to art school and college. I embraced
any road, any thought, any philosophy that took me away from that "old life"
which seemed somehow dull and meaningless. I learned all of the names and
catch phrases of the intellectual artist, embraced all of the currently
popular "schools," and lived the life of "artist as rock-and roll star." And
I did it well, getting my undergraduate degree in art from Columbus State,
and my Master of Fine Art from Savannah College of art and Design, showing
in Europe and America,wearing the laurels of success, never allowing myself
to admit that I was lying to myself and living someone else's life.

Then a major event in my life took place in which I lost everything. I was
living in my car with no home, eating at the Saint Francis mission in St.
Augustine, Florida, and being forced to rethink my life........In retrospect
it is the best thing that could have happened to me. I returned to the
beauty and basic truths of my childhood. I again embraced the beaauty of the
earth and the joy of being alive and free. This is where these paintings are
born.

GALLERY ONE posted 2008-01-28 10:29:41 by Dan
This is my personal favorite series. I have attempted to reach deep into the
human psyche here and create paintings that will be recognized across all
cultures and times. To this end I have worked flat with no attempt to make
them appear as anything except flat paintings on flat surfaces. There is no
attempt at perspective or depth; often there is no foreground, middleground,
or background. The colors are vivid and bright, the flora and fauna would
never be recognized by science, the fruits and flowers would never be found
in a florist or grocer....I hope that they are universal symbols of that
which they represent.

The observer will notice at once the power and importance of the sun symbol.
Actually the sun was usually the first thing painted and the rest of the
painting grew up around it. Those who have lived in the tropics will
understand this, as the sun is the ruler of the day and of all life.

The ruler of all life ....It has been suggested that the sun is a "god"
symbol in these paintings, and I am comfortable with that. (Note that I have
said a 'god symbol,' not a god....a symbol only.) The sun is the source of
all life as all energy comes from the sun...we are of the sun, we eat the
sun when we eat vegetables, or the meat that feeds on the vegetation.

Others have found a "Christian" image in the three "Ancestral Figures" that
stand guard with spears and huge erections over this fecund paradise.(I have
to admit that these figures are stolen from Australian rock paintings and
modified to suit my needs.)

I think I have said enough about these paintings now. I have a tendency to
get long winded and I would not want to color your perceptions. And after
all, art does not take place in the paint or on the wall; art does not take
place in the mind of the artists;...art takes place in the interaction
between the viewer and the painting. Art is a different experience for each
of us, modified or enhanced by our own unique experiences.

The Dream:
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery1.php

GALLERY TWO posted 2008-01-28 10:04:00 by Dan
What can one say about these paintings? These are scenes that I have
stumbled across from the Low Country of South Carolina to the provinces of
the Philippines. Shrimp boats of the South Carolina and Georgia coast, a
lighthouse somewhere on the Golden Isles of Georgia; a mother and daughter
in Costa Rica, two young Filipino girls with the family's carabao...other
images of other times and places....

Oil on canvas; simple, but I enjoy the discipline needed to render a sceene
that exists on the outside of my mind....simple beauty of a simple life.

I hope that you, the viewer, enjoy them, that you are sensitive to the
beauty of them, and that they bring you happiness.

The Reality:
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery2.php
--
"Wobble":

Henry Conley: guitar
Riley Yielding: trumpet
Sir Charles: saxophone
Sam Phillips: bass
Brad Strickland: drums
Will Dockery: words

"Wobble" was written by Will Dockery & Henry Conley

"Last Dream Today":

Brian Mallard - guitar
Dan Davidson - bass
Josh Railey - drums
Riley Yeilding - trumpet
Sir Charles - saxophone
Will Dockery - vocals

"Last Dream Today" was written by Will Dockery and Brian Mallard

[msifg]

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons
you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,

watercolor

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most

welcome.

Post by Will Dockery
cool!
my dad just sent me a bunch of abstract art.
it's some of my favorite kind of art.
my dad paints on a regular basis.

Are any of your father's works online anywhere? I'd like to check those out,
since abstract is by far my favorite form.
I hope to somedays get some of Sulzbach's work scanned and online, but he's
such a hermit-type, living out in the wouds of Alabama, it'll be some trick
getting that done.

Post by Will Dockery
thanks for sharing.
i've got a new pair of teeth.)

This unsent post I just found in my "Drafts" section, from last year, of
Here are galleries of Barfield, my teacher, who has been highly influenced
by Aborigine art and culture...
http://www.danbarfield.com/index.php
About Dan Barfield posted 2008-01-28 11:22:00 by Dan
I have often been asked by critics and students for the influences that have
shaped my "philosophy of art." I rattle off a few well known names and a few
well known "schools" of art which seems to satisfy them.The truth is....I
don't have a philosophy of art. My paintings grow out of my philosophy of
life and from the experiences of the life that I live and have lived since
childhood.
I grew up along the east coast between Savannah, Georgia and Jacksonville,
Florida, when that coast was still wild and undeveloped. School was a prison
for me, a thing to be endured only long enough to escape into the birdsong
silence and deep shadows of the woods and river swamps, or the sun washed
marshes and sea islands of the coast.
Then, as all teen-agers must, there came a time when I rebelled against this
life. I left this life behind and went to art school and college. I embraced
any road, any thought, any philosophy that took me away from that "old life"
which seemed somehow dull and meaningless. I learned all of the names and
catch phrases of the intellectual artist, embraced all of the currently
popular "schools," and lived the life of "artist as rock-and roll star." And
I did it well, getting my undergraduate degree in art from Columbus State,
and my Master of Fine Art from Savannah College of art and Design, showing
in Europe and America,wearing the laurels of success, never allowing myself
to admit that I was lying to myself and living someone else's life.
Then a major event in my life took place in which I lost everything. I was
living in my car with no home, eating at the Saint Francis mission in St.
Augustine, Florida, and being forced to rethink my life........In retrospect
it is the best thing that could have happened to me. I returned to the
beauty and basic truths of my childhood. I again embraced the beaauty of the
earth and the joy of being alive and free. This is where these paintings are
born.
GALLERY ONE posted 2008-01-28 10:29:41 by Dan
This is my personal favorite series. I have attempted to reach deep into the
human psyche here and create paintings that will be recognized across all
cultures and times. To this end I have worked flat with no attempt to make
them appear as anything except flat paintings on flat surfaces. There is no
attempt at perspective or depth; often there is no foreground,
middleground,
or background. The colors are vivid and bright, the flora and fauna would
never be recognized by science, the fruits and flowers would never be found
in a florist or grocer....I hope that they are universal symbols of that
which they represent.
The observer will notice at once the power and importance of the sun symbol.
Actually the sun was usually the first thing painted and the rest of the
painting grew up around it. Those who have lived in the tropics will
understand this, as the sun is the ruler of the day and of all life.
The ruler of all life ....It has been suggested that the sun is a "god"
symbol in these paintings, and I am comfortable with that. (Note that I have
said a 'god symbol,' not a god....a symbol only.) The sun is the source of
all life as all energy comes from the sun...we are of the sun, we eat the
sun when we eat vegetables, or the meat that feeds on the vegetation.
Others have found a "Christian" image in the three "Ancestral Figures" that
stand guard with spears and huge erections over this fecund paradise.(I have
to admit that these figures are stolen from Australian rock paintings and
modified to suit my needs.)
I think I have said enough about these paintings now. I have a tendency to
get long winded and I would not want to color your perceptions. And after
all, art does not take place in the paint or on the wall; art does not take
place in the mind of the artists;...art takes place in the interaction
between the viewer and the painting. Art is a different experience for each
of us, modified or enhanced by our own unique experiences.
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery1.php
GALLERY TWO posted 2008-01-28 10:04:00 by Dan
What can one say about these paintings? These are scenes that I have
stumbled across from the Low Country of South Carolina to the provinces of
the Philippines. Shrimp boats of the South Carolina and Georgia coast, a
lighthouse somewhere on the Golden Isles of Georgia; a mother and daughter
in Costa Rica, two young Filipino girls with the family's carabao...other
images of other times and places....
Oil on canvas; simple, but I enjoy the discipline needed to render a sceene
that exists on the outside of my mind....simple beauty of a simple life.
I hope that you, the viewer, enjoy them, that you are sensitive to the
beauty of them, and that they bring you happiness.
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery2.php
--
http://youtu.be/UVIF2-qWIUc
Henry Conley: guitar
Riley Yielding: trumpet
Sir Charles: saxophone
Sam Phillips: bass
Brad Strickland: drums
Will Dockery: words
"Wobble" was written by Will Dockery & Henry Conley
http://youtu.be/GSpYx8sSFP0
Brian Mallard - guitar
Dan Davidson - bass
Josh Railey - drums
Riley Yeilding - trumpet
Sir Charles - saxophone
Will Dockery - vocals
"Last Dream Today" was written by Will Dockery and Brian Mallard

my dad is very old and has never been interested
in sharing his art but with close friends and family.

we try to get him to go online like some of his
art friends. however, he really doesn't feel
like his work merits that kind of exposure.

i think it does. however, i'm far from an expert.



that dan barfeild stuff is abstract.
however, my dads stuff is more like yours.
the barfield stuff is pretty and phantasmagorical
in an otherworldly kind of way. it kept taking
me to the astral plane. that's some of my
favorite stuff. people who paint like
that usually don't get much exposure.
that's what makes it "art."

i'm not big on discussing paints and techniques
but i love sharing ideas like you just did.
my dad just offloaded a few paintings on to
me as gifts. at some point, i'll scan them
onto a webpage dedicated to him. i really
don't know what's going to happen to all of
his stuff when he goes. he's got hundreds
laying around the house.

[Will Dockery]

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Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever

reasons you prefer.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most

welcome.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
cool!
my dad just sent me a bunch of abstract art.
it's some of my favorite kind of art.
my dad paints on a regular basis.

Are any of your father's works online anywhere? I'd like to check those out,
since abstract is by far my favorite form.
I hope to somedays get some of Sulzbach's work scanned and online, but he's
such a hermit-type, living out in the wouds of Alabama, it'll be some

trick getting that done.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
thanks for sharing.
i've got a new pair of teeth.)

This unsent post I just found in my "Drafts" section, from last year, of
Here are galleries of Barfield, my teacher, who has been highly influenced
by Aborigine art and culture...

<snip for brevity>

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.danbarfield.com/index.php
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery1.php
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery2.php

my dad is very old and has never been interested
in sharing his art but with close friends and family.
we try to get him to go online like some of his
art friends. however, he really doesn't feel
like his work merits that kind of exposure.
i think it does. however, i'm far from an expert.

Hope you can convince him to put some out for the world, though.

Post by msifg
that dan barfeild stuff is abstract.
however, my dads stuff is more like yours.
the barfield stuff is pretty and phantasmagorical
in an otherworldly kind of way. it kept taking
me to the astral plane. that's some of my
favorite stuff. people who paint like
that usually don't get much exposure.
that's what makes it "art."
i'm not big on discussing paints and techniques
but i love sharing ideas like you just did.
my dad just offloaded a few paintings on to
me as gifts. at some point, i'll scan them
onto a webpage dedicated to him. i really
don't know what's going to happen to all of
his stuff when he goes. he's got hundreds
laying around the house.

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
thought I had "dead bodies" stashed in the backroom:

----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1

HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood

Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.

The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in Columbus.
That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely looked
like a body to Danny W****.

Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house July
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F**** Drive
and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery lets
friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work there.

Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among other
stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and
sternum atop decayed matter.

That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he froze.
Then he ran.

He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't
want to know.

M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just
said they didn't need the police coming there.

This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will had
a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.

She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing the
art), but the police needn't be bothered.

M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.

Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the police.

The next day, someone called the police.

About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was such a
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.

That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was
perturbed. She blamed Danny.

Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone directory
was involved; I called.)

The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window. That's
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.

The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the house
once.

Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would
remember that,'' he says.

Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now,
they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.

Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people thought
they saw a dead body.

But didn't.
----

Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

[msifg]

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Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings,

which

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever

reasons you prefer.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,

watercolor

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most

welcome.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
cool!
my dad just sent me a bunch of abstract art.
it's some of my favorite kind of art.
my dad paints on a regular basis.

Are any of your father's works online anywhere? I'd like to check those out,
since abstract is by far my favorite form.
I hope to somedays get some of Sulzbach's work scanned and online, but he's
such a hermit-type, living out in the wouds of Alabama, it'll be some

trick getting that done.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
thanks for sharing.
i've got a new pair of teeth.)

This unsent post I just found in my "Drafts" section, from last year, of
Here are galleries of Barfield, my teacher, who has been highly

influenced

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
by Aborigine art and culture...

<snip for brevity>

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.danbarfield.com/index.php
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery1.php
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery2.php

my dad is very old and has never been interested
in sharing his art but with close friends and family.
we try to get him to go online like some of his
art friends. however, he really doesn't feel
like his work merits that kind of exposure.
i think it does. however, i'm far from an expert.

Hope you can convince him to put some out for the world, though.

Post by msifg
that dan barfeild stuff is abstract.
however, my dads stuff is more like yours.
the barfield stuff is pretty and phantasmagorical
in an otherworldly kind of way. it kept taking
me to the astral plane. that's some of my
favorite stuff. people who paint like
that usually don't get much exposure.
that's what makes it "art."
i'm not big on discussing paints and techniques
but i love sharing ideas like you just did.
my dad just offloaded a few paintings on to
me as gifts. at some point, i'll scan them
onto a webpage dedicated to him. i really
don't know what's going to happen to all of
his stuff when he goes. he's got hundreds
laying around the house.

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1
HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood
Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in Columbus.
That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely looked
like a body to Danny W****.
Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house July
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F**** Drive
and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery lets
friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work there.
Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among other
stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and
sternum atop decayed matter.
That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he froze.
Then he ran.
He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't
want to know.
M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just
said they didn't need the police coming there.
This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will had
a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.
She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing the
art), but the police needn't be bothered.
M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.
Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the police.
The next day, someone called the police.
About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was such a
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.
That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was
perturbed. She blamed Danny.
Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone directory
was involved; I called.)
The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window. That's
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.
The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the house
once.
Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would
remember that,'' he says.
Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now,
they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.
Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people thought
they saw a dead body.
But didn't.
----
Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.
--
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

that's one hell of a story, Will.

thanks for sharing.

[Will Dockery]

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I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever

reasons you prefer.

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These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

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Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most

welcome.

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cool!

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This unsent post I just found in my "Drafts" section, from last year, of
Here are galleries of Barfield, my teacher, who has been highly

influenced by Aborigine art and culture...

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http://www.danbarfield.com/index.php
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery1.php
http://www.danbarfield.com/gallery2.php

my dad is very old and has never been interested
in sharing his art but with close friends and family.
we try to get him to go online like some of his
art friends. however, he really doesn't feel
like his work merits that kind of exposure.
i think it does. however, i'm far from an expert.

Hope you can convince him to put some out for the world, though.

Post by msifg
that dan barfeild stuff is abstract.
however, my dads stuff is more like yours.
the barfield stuff is pretty and phantasmagorical
in an otherworldly kind of way. it kept taking
me to the astral plane. that's some of my
favorite stuff. people who paint like
that usually don't get much exposure.
that's what makes it "art."
i'm not big on discussing paints and techniques
but i love sharing ideas like you just did.
my dad just offloaded a few paintings on to
me as gifts. at some point, i'll scan them
onto a webpage dedicated to him. i really
don't know what's going to happen to all of
his stuff when he goes. he's got hundreds
laying around the house.

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1
HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood
Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in Columbus.
That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely

looked like a body to Danny W****.

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Post by Will Dockery
Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house July
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F**** Drive
and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery lets
friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work there.
Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among other
stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and

sternum atop decayed matter.

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Post by Will Dockery
That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he

froze. Then he ran.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't

want to know.

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Post by Will Dockery
M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just
said they didn't need the police coming there.
This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will had
a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.
She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing

the art), but the police needn't be bothered.

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Post by Will Dockery
M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.
Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the police.
The next day, someone called the police.
About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was such a
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.
That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was

perturbed. She blamed Danny.

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Post by Will Dockery
Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone

directory was involved; I called.)

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Post by Will Dockery
The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window. That's
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.
The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the

house once.

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Post by Will Dockery
Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would

remember that,'' he says.

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Post by Will Dockery
Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now,
they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.
Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people thought

they saw a dead body.

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Post by Will Dockery
But didn't.
----
Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

that's one hell of a story, Will.
thanks for sharing.

That was a great time period where the area was just bursting with great
artists and poets, which looked like it would expand... poetry readings were
"in" around here for a while, 1995-1999 or so, there was even a city-wide
"best of" in music, arts, poetry, the Perky Awards which I took in 1998:

Loading Image...

As the Bush era unfolded, coincidentally much of that kind of ground down,
people drifted apart, and I began working more and more with rock and blues
music, and deal in that crowd more now. There's still poetry readings here,
but the venue lack "spark" for me, in a quiet-zone, no smoking, at the
public library... gone for now are the poetry nights in the smoky bars,
although every now and then a poet will drift through and read at the open
mic. Poetry is absorbed into the music, which is actually where it began
back around the dawn of time, anyhow.

Speaking of the music... I'm running late for the Sunday show, the archives
of which I hope to be arranging to archive online soon... so more on this
interesting historical stuff later, including a Hammes Retrospective.

[Will Dockery]

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Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Post by Will Dockery

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most welcome.

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1
HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood
Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in
Columbus. That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely

looked like a body to Danny W****. Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house July

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F****

Drive and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery lets friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work there.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among

other stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and sternum atop decayed matter.
That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he

froze. Then he ran.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he
didn't want to know.
M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just said they didn't need the police coming there.
This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son
Will had a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.
She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing the art), but the police needn't be bothered.
M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.

Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the

police. The next day, someone called the police.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was

such a

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.
That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was perturbed. She blamed Danny.
Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone

directory was involved; I called.) The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window. That's

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.
The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be

frightened,

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the house once. Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would remember that,'' he says.
Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now, they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.
Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people
thought they saw a dead body.
But didn't.
----
Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

that's one hell of a story, Will.
thanks for sharing.

have fun.
just so you know, the link for the photo required
a subscription.  fotoshoot, or something like that.
fyi

Yes, that made me wonder if other links are doing the same from that
site, if you get a chance, do me a favor and see if these work:

Green Planet detail:

http://tinyurl.com/green-planet

Man-O-War:

http://tinyurl.com/cqzktb

They're working here, but that may be because I'm "subscribed', even
though not logged in...

--
"Twilight Girl" and other poetry-music from Will Dockery:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[msifg]

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever
reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are
most welcome.

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1
HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood
Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in
Columbus. That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all,
but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely

looked like a body to Danny W****. Danny is a real estate agent who with
M***** went to look at the house July

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F****

Drive and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will
Dockery lets friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store
their work there.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among

other stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage
and sternum atop decayed matter.
That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he

froze. Then he ran.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he
didn't want to know.
M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she
just said they didn't need the police coming there.
This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son
Will had a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.
She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in
storing the art), but the police needn't be bothered.
M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.

Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the

police. The next day, someone called the police.

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was

such a

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.
That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was
perturbed. She blamed Danny.
Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone

directory was involved; I called.) The 911 report said someone saw the
alleged corpse through a window. That's

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.
The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be

frightened,

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the
house once. Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan
Barfield. "I would remember that,'' he says.
Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned
now, they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.
Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people
thought they saw a dead body.
But didn't.
----
Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

that's one hell of a story, Will.
thanks for sharing.

have fun.
just so you know, the link for the photo required
a subscription. fotoshoot, or something like that.
fyi

Yes, that made me wonder if other links are doing the same from that
site, if you get a chance, do me a favor and see if these work:

Green Planet detail:

http://tinyurl.com/green-planet

Man-O-War:

http://tinyurl.com/cqzktb

They're working here, but that may be because I'm "subscribed', even
though not logged in...

--
"Twilight Girl" and other poetry-music from Will Dockery:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery


yes-
both worked.

i really like the texturing.

my dad paints similarly.

thanks allot for sharing.

i put that link in my favorites folder.

[Will Dockery]

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract
paintings, which

some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor and pastel paints, to housepaint, solvents and melted

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Post by Will Dockery

Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, are most welcome.

Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1
HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood
Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in
Columbus. That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely

looked like a body to Danny W****. Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house July

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof
leaks in places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F****

Drive and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will
Dockery lets friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store
their work there. Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among other stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and sternum atop decayed matter.
That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he froze. Then he ran.
He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't want to know.
M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just said they didn't need the police coming there.
This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will had a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.
She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in
storing the art), but the police needn't be bothered.
M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.

Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the police. The next day, someone called the police. About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was such a
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.
That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was perturbed. She blamed Danny.
Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone

directory was involved; I called.) The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window. That's

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to
see. The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the
house once. Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would remember that,'' he says.
Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now, they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.
Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people
thought they saw a dead body.
But didn't.
----
Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

that's one hell of a story, Will.
thanks for sharing.

have fun.
just so you know, the link for the photo required
a subscription. fotoshoot, or something like that.
fyi

Yes, that made me wonder if other links are doing the same from that
http://tinyurl.com/green-planet
http://tinyurl.com/cqzktb
They're working here, but that may be because I'm "subscribed', even
though not logged in...
yes-
both worked.
i really like the texturing.
my dad paints similarly.
thanks allot for sharing.
i put that link in my favorites folder.

Hey, thanks...

--
"Twilight Girl" and other poetry-music from Will Dockery:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

"Will Dockery" <will-dockery-***@knology.net> wrote in message news:3257f$498f892e$4b4c71e9$***@KNOLOGY.NET...

= snip pointless crap =

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That was a great time period where the area was just bursting with great
artists and poets, which looked like it would expand... poetry readings were
"in" around here for a while, 1995-1999 or so, there was even a city-wide
http://www.fototime.com/{030189BB-B6FD-45B8-ACDF-8F90760C28FB}/picture.JPG

Did the Perky Awards honor slovenlyness and narcisstic behavior? Or maybe
I'm thinking of the Golden Globes.

Post by Will Dockery
As the Bush era unfolded, coincidentally much of that kind of ground down,
people drifted apart, and I began working more and more with rock and blues
music, and deal in that crowd more now.

So Dockery blames Bush for his current state of mental health. The sad part
is, that could actually work.

[Will Dockery]

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings,

which

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,

watercolor

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

<snip for brevity>

Post by msifg

Post by Will Dockery
Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1
HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood
Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in Columbus.
That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely
looked like a body to Danny W****.
Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house
July 2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F**** Drive
and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery lets
friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work there.
Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among other
stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and sternum atop decayed matter.
That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he froze. Then he ran.
He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't
want to know.
M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just said they didn't need the police coming there.
This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will had
a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.
She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing the
art), but the police needn't be bothered.
M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.
Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the police.
The next day, someone called the police.
About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was such
a weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.
That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was
perturbed. She blamed Danny.
Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone directory was involved; I called.)
The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window.
That's difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.
The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the house once.
Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would remember that,'' he says.
Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now, they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.
Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people thought they saw a dead body.
But didn't.
----
Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.

that's one hell of a story, Will.
thanks for sharing.

I just discovered last night that the story was picked up and used for
one of those joke book paperbacks a few years ago... I never knew,
since I never read those:

http://tinyurl.com/barfield

and

http://tinyurl.com/barfield2

What's the Number for 911?: America's Wackiest 911 Calls
By Leland Gregory
Published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2000
ISBN 0740700324, 9780740700323

--
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[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by Will Dockery
Barfield's art almost got me arrested a few years ago, a nosy peeping tom
----
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer (GA)
July 13, 1997
Section: LOCAL
Edition: FIRST
Page: B1
HOW GROSS THY ART
Tim Chitwood
Apparently it was all just a big misunderstanding.
The misunderstanding led to a 911 call about a decomposing body in an old
house M***** S*****'s husband R****** owns at 2113 **th St. in Columbus.
That led to the discovery that it wasn't a body after all, but artwork made
of barbed wire and blowtorched Barbie dolls. But it sure looked like a body
to police. And it looked like a body to paramedics. And it definitely looked
like a body to Danny W****.

What the fuck? Duckery messing around with barbed wire and Barbie dolls?
This is a side of Duckery that, while not unexpected, is still creepy and
twisted.

Post by Will Dockery
Danny is a real estate agent who with M***** went to look at the house July
2. He wanted to buy it and fix it up. It needs fixing up. The roof leaks in
places and some of the floor's rotting. The S**** now live on F**** Drive
and use the **th Street house for storage. M*****'s son Will Dockery lets
friends -- artists, poets and madmen, Will says -- store their work there.
Among those artists is Dan Barfield, who has a concept piece called
"Vietnam,'' part of which the veteran made of melted Barbie dolls. ("He
hates Barbies,'' says his wife Judy.) It now lies on the floor among other
stuff stored in the dark, northwest bedroom of the ##th Street house. To
someone who didn't know what it was, it might look like a rib cage and
sternum atop decayed matter.
That's what it looked like to Danny W**** when he walked into that musty
room, first staring up at the rafters. Then he looked down. Then he froze.
Then he ran.
He wasn't sure what he saw. Maybe a body. Maybe it was sealed with wax,
which trapped the odor. Maybe this was a bizarre ritual. Maybe he didn't
want to know.
M***** followed Danny as he dashed outside, where he tried to make a call on
his cell phone. She told him not to. According to her, she told him he'd
just seen some artwork. According to Danny, she never said that; she just
said they didn't need the police coming there.
This did not sound reassuring. Danny had to make that call. Now don't call
the police, M***** said again. She says she also told Danny her son Will had
a bad temper, and he wouldn't like Danny calling the police.
She says Danny replied that the police wouldn't do anything to her; she
wasn't involved. That's true, she said (she wasn't involved in storing the
art), but the police needn't be bothered.
M***** claims Danny then offered her $13,000 for the house, then said it
needed so much work the most he could give her was $10,000.
Danny maintains all M***** did was tell him no one should call the police.
The next day, someone called the police.
About 10:30 a.m., police and paramedics rushed to the house, unboarded a
door to get in and examined what they, too, thought was a decaying body,
oddly odorless. Then they poked it and figured out it wasn't. It was such a
weird story, the Ledger-Enquirer ran it on the front page July 4.
That's how M****** learned police had broken into the house. She was
perturbed. She blamed Danny.
Danny won't say he called police, but admits he told someone what he thought
he saw. Stan Swiney of the 911 center says the call reportedly came from a
Billy Hanson. (No Billy Hanson listed in the Columbus telephone directory
was involved; I called.)
The 911 report said someone saw the alleged corpse through a window. That's
difficult: The room's dark; the window's dirty; the art's hard to see.
The artist, Dan Barfield, says it's funny Danny W**** would be frightened,
because the real estate agent stopped by a few months ago when Dan was
moving art into the house, and this piece was out on the lawn at the time.
The artist claims the agent told him a decayed body was found in the house
once.
Danny says that's outrageous: He has never met Dan Barfield. "I would
remember that,'' he says.
Danny says he just wanted to buy the house to help clean up the
neighborhood, where he owns other property. ``As far as I'm concerned now,
they couldn't give it to me,'' he says.
Perhaps it will remain the house of scary art, where once people thought
they saw a dead body.
But didn't.
----
Barfield took off to live in Texas a year or so ago and I haven't heard a
word from him since... hope the old cuss is doing okay out there.
--
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[FarStar]

Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain fanged:

<mercy snip>

what the hell, I really should call the vampire hunters
this outbreak is getting worse




-------------------------------------------------------------------

Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm

SteepleJack Beer
http://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by Will Dockery
I grew up along the east coast between Savannah, Georgia and
Jacksonville,
Florida, when that coast was still wild and undeveloped. School was a prison
for me, a thing to be endured only long enough to escape into the birdsong
silence and deep shadows of the woods and river swamps, or the sun washed
marshes and sea islands of the coast.

Well, that PARTLY explains why he's so fucking stupid. He dropped out of
school. I'm sure there's some natural talent of stupidity there, though. No
one can be as dumb, ignorant and closed-minded as Dockery without having
some natural abilities to do the same.

[FarStar]

Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain fanged:

<mercy snip>

logic, ever hear of it? That's a quote of a quote, idiot

About Dan Barfield  posted 2008-01-28 11:22:00 by Dan
<snip>
I grew up along the east coast between Savannah, Georgia and Jacksonville,
Florida, when that coast was still wild and undeveloped. School was a prison
for me, a thing to be endured only long enough to escape into the birdsong
silence and deep shadows of the woods and river swamps, or the sun washed
marshes and sea islands of the coast.

[Dale Houstman]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

They are all pretty much the same apart from being different colors. I
suppose you think they're akin to Pollack's work, but Pollack is one of
those figures (like "e.e. cummings" in poetry) who - although marvelous
in their own right - have served as "bad examples" and invitations to
laziness for an entire generation of artists. With "cummings" it is the
notion that if one just puts in enough punctuation, splits up words,
spells words oddly, etc. then poetry is inevitable. The Beats obviously
serve a similar function for you and many other mediocre-to-terrible
performance "artists". Here - in your "paintings" - you seem to think if
you dribble enough colored crap on a canvas, it must - by some universal
law of cosmic kindness - create a work which is the perfect expression
of some inner passion you pretend to feel. But they are just charmless
masses of direction-less non-intent. The contrast with Pollack's works
is instructive: despite his being called a "dribbler" his works reveal
intent, there is strength, energy, and a "rush toward an answer" to his
lines: he is truly finding the "expression" in "abstract expressionism".
Yours are an (unintentional and unfunny) parody of his accomplishments,
more a critique of what those who disliked his work thought his work was
than an understanding of his vision.

Yes Jackson also used housepaint, which has led to a set of preservation
problems: you needn't worry that this will happen in your case - not one
of these "paintings" needs to survive past next week.

dmh

[Savageduck]

Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

They are all pretty much the same apart from being different colors. I
suppose you think they're akin to Pollack's work, but Pollack is one of
those figures (like "e.e. cummings" in poetry) who - although marvelous
in their own right - have served as "bad examples" and invitations to
laziness for an entire generation of artists. With "cummings" it is the
notion that if one just puts in enough punctuation, splits up words,
spells words oddly, etc. then poetry is inevitable. The Beats obviously
serve a similar function for you and many other mediocre-to-terrible
performance "artists". Here - in your "paintings" - you seem to think
if you dribble enough colored crap on a canvas, it must - by some
universal law of cosmic kindness - create a work which is the perfect
expression of some inner passion you pretend to feel. But they are just
charmless masses of direction-less non-intent. The contrast with
Pollack's works is instructive: despite his being called a "dribbler"
his works reveal intent, there is strength, energy, and a "rush toward
an answer" to his lines: he is truly finding the "expression" in
"abstract expressionism". Yours are an (unintentional and unfunny)
parody of his accomplishments, more a critique of what those who
disliked his work thought his work was than an understanding of his
vision.
Yes Jackson also used housepaint, which has led to a set of
preservation problems: you needn't worry that this will happen in your
case - not one of these "paintings" needs to survive past next week.
dmh

Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.

Here is Pollock #2 at the Munson Williams Procter Arts Institute Utica
NY, http://snipr.com/7or04-wiksca
MWP http://www.mwpai.org/museum/collections/modernandcontemporary/

[Dale Houstman]

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to
like Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will
appears to think the art is in the dribble.

dmh

[msifg]

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only imagine
that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and intellect
(alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He was unique.

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to like
Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will appears
to think the art is in the dribble.
dmh

well, now-
what have we here?
houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
of altering the posters name.

(a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)

[George Dance]

Post by msifg

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only imagine
that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and intellect
(alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He was unique.

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to like
Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will appears
to think the art is in the dribble.
dmh

well, now-
what have we here?
houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
of altering the posters name.
(a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)

Nahh, "Savageduck" appears to be a real nym. I checked his profile;
he's been posting under that nym for years.

[msifg]

Post by msifg

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only imagine
that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and intellect
(alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He was unique.

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to like
Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will appears
to think the art is in the dribble.
dmh

well, now-
what have we here?
houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
of altering the posters name.
(a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)

Nahh, "Savageduck" appears to be a real nym. I checked his profile;
he's been posting under that nym for years.


*yeah-
well, i ducked that reply.

check out the "mockery."

see, i've got some luck.

[George Dance]

Post by George Dance

Post by msifg

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only imagine
that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and intellect
(alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He was unique.

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to like
Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will appears
to think the art is in the dribble.
dmh

well, now-
what have we here?
houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
of altering the posters name.
(a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)

Nahh, "Savageduck" appears to be a real nym. I checked his profile;
he's been posting under that nym for years.
*yeah-
well, i ducked that reply.
check out the "mockery."

Got it. I missed that on the first read.

Maybe Dale wants a new name for himself. I'll work on that. So far the
best I have is "Pale Hammesimitation", but that's a bit lengthy. I'll
try some recursions. 8)

Post by George Dance
see, i've got some luck.

[msifg]

Post by George Dance

Post by msifg

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only imagine
that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and intellect
(alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He was unique.

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to like
Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will appears
to think the art is in the dribble.
dmh

well, now-
what have we here?
houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
of altering the posters name.
(a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)

Nahh, "Savageduck" appears to be a real nym. I checked his profile;
he's been posting under that nym for years.
*yeah-
well, i ducked that reply.
check out the "mockery."

Got it. I missed that on the first read.

Maybe Dale wants a new name for himself. I'll work on that. So far the
best I have is "Pale Hammesimitation", but that's a bit lengthy. I'll
try some recursions. 8)

Post by George Dance
see, i've got some luck.

*hoseman works for me.

heh

[Will Dockery]

Post by George Dance
Maybe Dale wants a new name for himself. I'll work on that. So far the
best I have is "Pale Hammesimitation", but that's a bit lengthy. I'll
try some recursions. 8)

Post by msifg
see, i've got some luck.

*hoseman works for me.
heh

Whatever happened to "Drayton August Malvershon"?

--

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"Greybeard Cavalier" by Will Dockery, 0x0000 and Brian Fowler.
Video by Doug Cole

[Savageduck]

Post by George Dance

Post by msifg

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only imag

ine

Post by msifg

Post by Savageduck
that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and intelle

ct

Post by msifg

Post by Savageduck
(alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He was unique

.

Post by msifg

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to li

ke

Post by msifg

Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will appear

s

Post by msifg

to think the art is in the dribble.
dmh

well, now-
what have we here?
houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
of altering the posters name.
(a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)

Nahh, "Savageduck" appears to be a real nym. I checked his profile;
he's been posting under that nym for years.

You will find the OP cross post into rec.photo.digital brought me into
your World. I am usually found in the photo NGs.
...and as noted above, I have been around there (photo groups and a few
others) for years.

[Rob Evans]

Post by msifg

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to like
Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will appears
to think the art is in the dribble.
dmh

well, now-
what have we here?
houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
of altering the posters name.
(a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)

Or a tell-tale sign that you can't follow a thread (even if you move your
lips).

Rob
--
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-----------
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I reach for 45-calibre pearls


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[msifg]

Post by Rob Evans

Post by msifg

Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to
like Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will
appears to think the art is in the dribble.
dmh

well, now-
what have we here?
houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
of altering the posters name.
(a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)

Or a tell-tale sign that you can't follow a thread (even if you move your
lips).
Rob
--
Rob Evans
-----------

neither can you.

i already called "muckery" as a "save."

i screwed up the word prima donna in the other
thread, dickweed.

you need to clear your nasal passages, old fart.

the snot is starting to leak out onto the
bloody page.

[Rob Evans]

Post by msifg

Post by Rob Evans

Post by msifg

Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.

As we have seen with Mockery's "paintings" even those who profess to
like Pollock's work malign it with their misunderstanding of it. Will
appears to think the art is in the dribble.
dmh

well, now-
what have we here?
houstman bringing it down to b's cat level
of altering the posters name.
(a tell tale sign that someone just got owned.)

Or a tell-tale sign that you can't follow a thread (even if you move your
lips).
Rob
--
Rob Evans
-----------

neither can you.
i already called "muckery" as a "save."

As a "save"? Of course you did. AND you had your fingers crossed.

And things will be better when you get to big school.

Post by msifg
i screwed up the word prima donna in the other
thread, dickweed.

I think screwing up words could be your particular forte. A promising
Duckling indeed.

Rob
--
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-----------
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I reach for 45-calibre pearls>


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[FarStar]

appears to think the art is in the quip.

(It's in the size Will,
a big fucking wall
and the dynamic of the large with the fine
in a subtext of asemicity)

-------------------------------------------------------------------

Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm

SteepleJack Beer
http://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

[Will Dockery]

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.

http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Thanks for the comments, and for having a look.

[George Dance]

Post by Savageduck

Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

They are all pretty much the same apart from being different colors. I
suppose you think they're akin to Pollack's work, but Pollack is one of
those figures (like "e.e. cummings" in poetry) who - although marvelous
in their own right - have served as "bad examples" and invitations to
laziness for an entire generation of artists. With "cummings" it is the
notion that if one just puts in enough punctuation, splits up words,
spells words oddly, etc. then poetry is inevitable. The Beats obviously
serve a similar function for you and many other mediocre-to-terrible
performance "artists". Here - in your "paintings" - you seem to think
if you dribble enough colored crap on a canvas, it must - by some
universal law of cosmic kindness - create a work which is the perfect
expression of some inner passion you pretend to feel. But they are just
charmless masses of direction-less non-intent. The contrast with
Pollack's works is instructive: despite his being called a "dribbler"
his works reveal intent, there is strength, energy, and a "rush toward
an answer" to his lines: he is truly finding the "expression" in
"abstract expressionism". Yours are an (unintentional and unfunny)
parody of his accomplishments, more a critique of what those who
disliked his work thought his work was than an understanding of his
vision.
Yes Jackson also used housepaint, which has led to a set of
preservation problems: you needn't worry that this will happen in your
case - not one of these "paintings" needs to survive past next week.
dmh

Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.

Well, one major difference was that Pollock, unlike so many of his
imitators, was not just an "artist" but a painter; so he knew and was
able to use traditional rules or tools of composition in his work. Too
many wannabe "artists" never take the time to learn to be painters,
just as too many wannabe poets never take the time to learn to be
writers.

Post by Savageduck
Here is Pollock #2 at the Munson Williams Procter Arts Institute Utica
NY,http://snipr.com/7or04-wiksca
MWPhttp://www.mwpai.org/museum/collections/modernandcontemporary/
--
Regards,
Savageduck

[0x0000]

Post by George Dance

Post by Savageduck

Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

They are all pretty much the same apart from being different colors. I
suppose you think they're akin to Pollack's work, but Pollack is one of
those figures (like "e.e. cummings" in poetry) who - although marvelous
in their own right - have served as "bad examples" and invitations to
laziness for an entire generation of artists. With "cummings" it is the
notion that if one just puts in enough punctuation, splits up words,
spells words oddly, etc. then poetry is inevitable. The Beats obviously
serve a similar function for you and many other mediocre-to-terrible
performance "artists". Here - in your "paintings" - you seem to think
if you dribble enough colored crap on a canvas, it must - by some
universal law of cosmic kindness - create a work which is the perfect
expression of some inner passion you pretend to feel. But they are just
charmless masses of direction-less non-intent. The contrast with
Pollack's works is instructive: despite his being called a "dribbler"
his works reveal intent, there is strength, energy, and a "rush toward
an answer" to his lines: he is truly finding the "expression" in
"abstract expressionism". Yours are an (unintentional and unfunny)
parody of his accomplishments, more a critique of what those who
disliked his work thought his work was than an understanding of his
vision.
Yes Jackson also used housepaint, which has led to a set of
preservation problems: you needn't worry that this will happen in your
case - not one of these "paintings" needs to survive past next week.
dmh

Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.

Well, one major difference was that Pollock, unlike so many of his
imitators, was not just an "artist" but a painter; so he knew and was
able to use traditional rules or tools of composition in his work. Too
many wannabe "artists" never take the time to learn to be painters,
just as too many wannabe poets never take the time to learn to be
writers.

By the same token, however, many - I would say most - of those who
train in disciplines like writing and painting and music never manage
to reach a point where their efforts can properly be called "Art".
The phenomenon of "hack" writing is fairly well-known and well-
understood. The hack artists get away with a bit more because fewer
people are willing to assert their own ability to label Art as "crap"
or "not crap". This is mostly due to the brainwashing we receive in
school, and throughout society.

Hack musicians tend to be the worst offenders simply because anyone
who can do anything that sounds even remotely "musical" (i.e. make a
sound on an instrument") /and/ who is not embarrassed to perform in
front of people can plausibly pass as a "musician" and will draw an
audience (a crowd) if they are in some way more interesting than
whatever it is the victim (audience) was doing before the hack began
performing. A good example of this is the so-called "country/rock
bar band" that is so pervasive through-out this region (the Bible
Belt, USA). Typically these guys can imitate quite well - sometimes
almost flawlessly - those people who actually make the music to begin
with, but they usually do not have the ability to actually transcend
the copying of someone else's work to make music as Art, independent
of the commerce that has come to control who gets to hear what, these
days...

Anyway. You really should not, imo, discourage people from trying to
engage in the Arts - regardless of their level of "training". That's
what's killing the Arts - no ordinary mortal person these days
believes they are "good enough". Of course, they may not be, but as a
critic, you should be far more concerned with what any given wannabe
is gonna do /next/ than with picking apart what you believe to be
problems with what they've already done. Unless, of course, you're
one of those people who believe that Art can come from places like
American Idol, in which case I have no real interest in reading or
hearing anything you may have to say on the subject....

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Post by Savageduck
Here is Pollock #2 at the Munson Williams Procter Arts Institute Utica
NY,http://snipr.com/7or04-wiksca
MWPhttp://www.mwpai.org/museum/collections/modernandcontemporary/
--
Regards,
Savageduck

[Will Dockery]

Post by Savageduck

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons

you prefer.

Post by Savageduck

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect

No, it isn't as easy as so many of those people would think, and certainly
isn't just a matter of "splashing paint on a board", as folks like to
assume.

(alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He

Post by Savageduck
was unique.

He inspired quite a few greats that seem to be often overlooked, such as the
previously mentioned Richard Dousette-Dart, who was actually a more direct
influence on my paintings, having studied his works up close.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/13705/richard-pousette-dart.html

Pousette-Dart's work was here on exhibition for a few months back in 1991
(1990 - 1992 Retrospektives in Indianapolis, Detroit, Columbus Georgia,
Washington), and one of my favorite things to do at the time was to smoke a
good joint and wander among his paintings.

Post by Savageduck
Here is Pollock #2 at the Munson Williams Procter Arts Institute Utica
NY, http://snipr.com/7or04-wiksca
MWP http://www.mwpai.org/museum/collections/modernandcontemporary/

Great stuff, yes... a shame so many people just don't "get it".

Post by Savageduck
Regards,
Savageduck

Thanks, and great name, btw... heh.

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Savageduck

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons

you prefer.

Post by Savageduck

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil,

watercolor

Post by Savageduck

Post by Will Dockery

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most

welcome.

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect

No, it isn't as easy as so many of those people would think, and certainly
isn't just a matter of "splashing paint on a board", as folks like to
assume.

Though Duckery tends to just shit on a post card and mail it to the
Smithsonian.

Post by Will Dockery
(alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He

Post by Savageduck
was unique.

He inspired quite a few greats that seem to be often overlooked, such as the
previously mentioned Richard Dousette-Dart, who was actually a more direct
influence on my paintings, having studied his works up close.
http://www.artnet.com/artist/13705/richard-pousette-dart.html
Pousette-Dart's work was here on exhibition for a few months back in 1991
(1990 - 1992 Retrospektives in Indianapolis, Detroit, Columbus Georgia,
Washington), and one of my favorite things to do at the time was to smoke a
good joint and wander among his paintings.

Post by Savageduck
Here is Pollock #2 at the Munson Williams Procter Arts Institute Utica
NY, http://snipr.com/7or04-wiksca
MWP http://www.mwpai.org/museum/collections/modernandcontemporary/

Great stuff, yes... a shame so many people just don't "get it".

Post by Savageduck
Regards,
Savageduck

Thanks, and great name, btw... heh.
--
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[FarStar]

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
Though Duckery tends to just shit on a post card and mail it to the
Smithsonian.

They asked to see if his shit was really inspired, and he merely replied,
"see for your self"
You must have asked too, you're own fault. Sour grapes and all that.

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Savageduck wrote:

<mercy snip>

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.
Here is Pollock #2 at the Munson Williams Procter Arts Institute Utica
NY, http://snipr.com/7or04-wiksca
MWP http://www.mwpai.org/museum/collections/modernandcontemporary/

That's not a painting, that's a haiku in bastard form
having only three syllables such as: as
'em
icK!

[Will Dockery]

Post by FarStar
<mercy snip>

Post by Savageduck
Pollock is much maligned.
Most of those who ridicule his work have not experienced it, only
imagine that they are capable of similar work without his artistry and
intellect (alcohol not withstanding) they never attain his result. He
was unique.
Here is Pollock #2 at the Munson Williams Procter Arts Institute Utica
NY, http://snipr.com/7or04-wiksca
MWP http://www.mwpai.org/museum/collections/modernandcontemporary/

That's not a painting, that's a haiku in bastard form
having only three syllables such as: as
'em
icK!

Heh...

[Will Dockery]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

They are all pretty much the same apart from being different colors. I

The photos were not taken by Martin Scorsese, but just a pal with a camera,
so first off they're not as crisp a veiw as you'd get if you were standing
in the shed with me, but that tossed off comment is typical of your lazy
commentary. I have to say if, say, you think that these two close-ups of a
section of two of the paintings:

http://tinyurl.com/green-planet

compared with

http://tinyurl.com/cqzktb

And still shrug and claim they're "pretty much the same", then you either
need a new pair of glasses, or you're indulging in your typical, and
tiresomely whining negativity game.

Why not try to get past your jealousy and open your eyes for once?

Post by Will Dockery
suppose you think they're akin to Pollack's work, but Pollack is one of

Well, I love what I've seen of Pollack's art, yeah, although I've only seen
photographs of it. The person who probably influenced me more, since I did
spend several days looking at his paintings up close back in 1991 or so, was
Richard Pousette-Dart, when his paintings came to Shadowville on tour:

http://www.mannysilvermangallery.com/artists/richard_pousette-dart-biography-chronology.html

I saw these paintings, and I "got" them.

Unlike you, I looked long and hard at them, and began trying to "get"
something of my own.

I've met your type before, and /or course/ you were never in this place...
you shrugged your shoulders, took a glance and walked away, angry about how
"anyone can splash some pain on a canvas, so why should I bother?', since
you already did in your mind. I've also seen your type sitting by the bar,
or skulking behind the pool table, while a performer's onstage... "I can
play better than that..." or "Anyone can write that poetry crap, just string
some words together, and shuffle them in a deck of index cards...",
different faces, same old whine.

Which you've perfected to an art form of its own.

Post by Will Dockery
those figures (like "e.e. cummings" in poetry) who - although marvelous
in their own right - have served as "bad examples" and invitations to
laziness for an entire generation of artists.

Or with your example, an invitation to a lazy shrug of the shoulders and an
"it's just paint splattered on a canvas".

Of course, you're as much an example of that "generation of artists",
yourself... it just boils down to the fact that you can't "tolerate" anyone
who excells at "your game", and thus your eternal cycle of agressively
attempting to tear down everything, every "abstract" poet or artist that
crosses your path... am I right? Deep down, you know I am.

With "cummings" it is the

Post by Will Dockery
notion that if one just puts in enough punctuation, splits up words,

Or your added touch of shuffling them in a deck of index cards... heh.

Post by Will Dockery
spells words oddly, etc. then poetry is inevitable.

Or, as with your poetry, the idea that (from the "bad example" of William
Burroughs) sentences chopped up and shuffled in a deck of index cards will
inevitably turn into a poem...

Post by Will Dockery
The Beats obviously serve a similar function for you

While you've based your entire poetry "career" on the methods of William
Burroughs... project much?

Post by Will Dockery
Here - in your "paintings" - you seem to think if

Key word: "seem to think".

You "seem" to be projecting your own lack of originality and "vision" on
me... for about the umpteenth time.

Post by Will Dockery
you dribble enough colored crap on a canvas,

One of my methods is to use only "found" materials, which really does make
(in my opinion) a work which is the perfect expression of some "inner
passion", and better yet (as with the best poetry) a document of that
feeling, or whatever... but I know how you hate all that "mystic" "feelings"
stuff...

You glance at a poem and give a non-specific "plagiarism" libel, and
appatrently you have the same narrow-minded veiw of art... and I've never
seen you comment once on another poet besides yourself positively, which
smacks of a form of competitive jealousy, which is pretty unoriginal in
itself.

Post by Will Dockery
But they are just charmless
masses of direction-less non-intent.

Since I doubt you've even looked at them for more than 30 seconds, I'll just
shrug and give a "thanks for looking and commenting" back at you.

The contrast with Pollack's works

Post by Will Dockery
is instructive: despite his being called a "dribbler" his works reveal
intent, there is strength, energy, and a "rush toward an answer" to his
lines: he is truly finding the "expression" in "abstract expressionism".

Plus his paintings have the name "Jackson Pollack" on them, right?

You're just a broken record of bitter negativity, perhaps because of your
own failures, I suppose?

Post by Will Dockery
Yours are an (unintentional and unfunny) parody of his accomplishments,
more a critique of what those who disliked his work thought his work was
than an understanding of his vision.

Suddenly you pretend to have and/or "understand" a "vision"... heh.

Post by Will Dockery
Yes Jackson also used housepaint, which has led to a set of preservation
problems

A can of Clearcoat works wonders, pal... get over your bitterness at those
of us who can, and try to get "something" of your own done, perhaps? Thanks
for having a look and commenting, though... maybe someday you'll have
something useful to say rather than just project your own lack of
originality and "vision" on the rest of us who do work to those goals of
getting the vision down as art?

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

They are all pretty much the same apart from being different colors. I
suppose you think they're akin to Pollack's work, but Pollack is one of
those figures (like "e.e. cummings" in poetry) who - although marvelous in
their own right - have served as "bad examples" and invitations to
laziness for an entire generation of artists. With "cummings" it is the
notion that if one just puts in enough punctuation, splits up words,
spells words oddly, etc. then poetry is inevitable. The Beats obviously
serve a similar function for you and many other mediocre-to-terrible
performance "artists". Here - in your "paintings" - you seem to think if
you dribble enough colored crap on a canvas, it must - by some universal
law of cosmic kindness - create a work which is the perfect expression of
some inner passion you pretend to feel. But they are just charmless masses
of direction-less non-intent. The contrast with Pollack's works is
instructive: despite his being called a "dribbler" his works reveal
intent, there is strength, energy, and a "rush toward an answer" to his
lines: he is truly finding the "expression" in "abstract expressionism".
Yours are an (unintentional and unfunny) parody of his accomplishments,
more a critique of what those who disliked his work thought his work was
than an understanding of his vision.
Yes Jackson also used housepaint, which has led to a set of preservation
problems: you needn't worry that this will happen in your case - not one
of these "paintings" needs to survive past next week.
dmh

we can only hope the artist does not do so as well

[FarStar]

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
we can only hope the artist does not do so as well

your just a bitchy peach, aren't ya

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Post by Dale Houstman
problems: you needn't worry that this will happen in your case - not one
of these "paintings" needs to survive past next week.

You should have used links, you look like an idiot not having supported a
single claim in your entire diatribe


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[0x0000]

Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

They are all pretty much the same apart from being different colors. I
suppose you think they're akin to Pollack's work, but Pollack is one of
those figures (like "e.e. cummings" in poetry) who - although marvelous
in their own right - have served as "bad examples" and invitations to
laziness for an entire generation of artists. With "cummings" it is the
notion that if one just puts in enough punctuation, splits up words,
spells words oddly, etc. then poetry is inevitable. The Beats obviously
serve a similar function for you and many other mediocre-to-terrible
performance "artists". Here - in your "paintings" - you seem to think if
you dribble enough colored crap on a canvas, it must - by some universal
law of cosmic kindness - create a work which is the perfect expression
of some inner passion you pretend to feel. But they are just charmless
masses of direction-less non-intent. The contrast with Pollack's works
is instructive: despite his being called a "dribbler" his works reveal
intent, there is strength, energy, and a "rush toward an answer" to his
lines: he is truly finding the "expression" in "abstract expressionism".
Yours are an (unintentional and unfunny) parody of his accomplishments,
more a critique of what those who disliked his work thought his work was
than an understanding of his vision.

Amazing. You fell for Pollack hook, line, and sinker. Sounds like
you're not really qualified in the area of criticism of Art, DMH. At
least, you've failed to establish any creds for yourself with /that/
paragraph of "suck-up-to-the-faggy-new-york-art-crowd-at-the-expense-
of-local-folk-artists" drivel. Thanks for playing. Hope you do
better next time...

Post by Dale Houstman
Yes Jackson also used housepaint, which has led to a set of preservation
problems: you needn't worry that this will happen in your case - not one
of these "paintings" needs to survive past next week.
dmh

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

mean about as much as a pre-schooler's glitter and glue art.

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out,

No.

Post by Will Dockery
for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor

So basically, you accidentally melted something with one of your cigarettes,
and decided to put the can of Raid under your sink to something other than
its intended purpose. In the meantime, you probably vomited and after
scraping away the top layer, in your delusional and stupid mental state
decided to call the rest "art."


You're about as much as an artist as a cat walking across a piano is a
musician.

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

It sucks, your work is worthless and would be better off being used to
psychologically torture 9/11 conspirators.

Post by Will Dockery
--
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[FarStar]

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
So basically, you accidentally melted something with one of your
cigarettes, and decided to put the can of Raid under your sink to
something other than its intended purpose. In the meantime, you probably
vomited and after scraping away the top layer, in your delusional and
stupid mental state decided to call the rest "art."

Your an idiot "dorksen", if history has proven one thing
critics have only made life harder for poor artists before they die and
become famous, never improved the art with their own work or dialog...
like the fuzz on a radio chattering to the greatest song
it still pisses on the melody. save it for the commercial break
or get with the constructive criticism seeing as how you know so much

"we know"
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[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
So basically, you accidentally melted something with one of your
cigarettes, and decided to put the can of Raid under your sink to
something other than its intended purpose. In the meantime, you probably
vomited and after scraping away the top layer, in your delusional and
stupid mental state decided to call the rest "art."

Your an idiot "dorksen",

Does this mean we aren't going to go see "Marly & Me" like we planned? *kri*

Post by FarStar
if history has proven one thing
critics have only made life harder for poor artists before they die and
become famous, never improved the art with their own work or dialog...

Duckery will eventually die, yes, and that's a comforting thought
(especially since it'll probably be through an overdose of drugs and
alcohol), but as for him being famous??? Not ever. Though sheer stupidity
COULD technically be called a "Dockery."

Post by FarStar
like the fuzz on a radio chattering to the greatest song
it still pisses on the melody. save it for the commercial break
or get with the constructive criticism seeing as how you know so much
"we know"

IF YOU LOVE DOCKERY SO MUCH WHY DON'T YOU MARRY HIM

[FarStar]

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
IF YOU LOVE DOCKERY SO MUCH WHY DON'T YOU MARRY HIM

SHUCKS, I like women like you...

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Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
IF YOU LOVE DOCKERY SO MUCH WHY DON'T YOU MARRY HIM

SHUCKS, I like women like you...

Jeeze, you got him SCREAMiNG and stamping his little feet again,
FarStar... heh.

--
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Based on "Greybeard Cavalier" by Will Dockery, 0x0000 and Brian
Fowler. Video by Doug Cole

Post by FarStar
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[0x0000]

Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
IF YOU LOVE DOCKERY SO MUCH WHY DON'T YOU MARRY HIM

Hmmm. Someone recently suggested that to me, as well. IRL. Of
course, I cannot. As anyone who thought about it should well know.
I'm terminally scarred by the debacle with the Horn Twins, and I
suspect is no more a woman than either of them....

Post by FarStar
SHUCKS, I like women like you...
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Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
So basically, you accidentally melted something with one of your
cigarettes, and decided to put the can of Raid under your sink to
something other than its intended purpose. In the meantime, you probably
vomited and after scraping away the top layer, in your delusional and
stupid mental state decided to call the rest "art."

Your an idiot "dorksen", if history has proven one thing
critics have only made life harder for poor artists before they die and
become famous, never improved the art with their own work or dialog...
like the fuzz on a radio chattering to the greatest song
it still pisses on the melody.  save it for the commercial break
or get with the constructive criticism seeing as how you know so much
"we know"
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Given his pattern of behavior, the Orson 'bot has almost certainly
already made arrangements to acquire all Dockery's unsold work in the
event of Dockery's demise. I will stop short of saying he has
approached me privately (off-list) asking if I know where it is, and
if I can get my hands on it "as a joke"), but only because he might
try to prosecute me criminally if I were to make that claim.

I have heard, however, that he has - apparently more than once - tried
to pass himself off as me in conversation with my former in-laws. Him
and some guy calling himself "Meat Plow"... Of course, I'm sure she
made it easy for him as she has tried for years (and for reasons as
yet to be determined) to claim that a good dozen or so of the denizens
of this and several other news groups are all me. She is mistaken, of
course; I'm no where near as popular, nor as prolific, as those
bozos...

Post by FarStar
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Only got one line to balk all the schizm
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[r***@gmail.com]

On Feb 6, 11:07 pm, "Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain"

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which

mean about as much as a pre-schooler's glitter and glue art.

Post by Will Dockery
some of you may have an interest in checking out,

No.

Post by Will Dockery
for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor

So basically, you accidentally melted something with one of your cigarettes,
and decided to put the can of Raid under your sink to something other than
its intended purpose. In the meantime, you probably vomited and after
scraping away the top layer, in your delusional and stupid mental state
decided to call the rest "art."
You're about as much as an artist as a cat walking across a piano is a
musician.

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

It sucks, your work is worthless and would be better off being used to
psychologically torture 9/11 conspirators.

Post by Will Dockery
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- Show quoted text -

As I posted earlier, I am looking for some fine abstract art of: weeds
growing through cracks in the ashpalt, empty sheet music with rocks on
it, photos of computers with various junk around it, glass jars in
windows, pictures of ugly pool tables, pictures of empty rooms,
pictures of motels marked Red Carpet Inn, self portraits of people who
want to appear like Saint Paul, pictures of empty lots with sheds on
them. Can anyone help me find fine abstract art such as this, or
point me to an artist who may have creative pieces such as this? I
especially like photos. Thanks to anyone in the art world who could
help.

[Will Dockery]

Post by r***@gmail.com

Post by Will Dockery
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

As I posted earlier, I am looking for some fine abstract art of: weeds
growing through cracks in the ashpalt, empty sheet music with rocks on
it, photos of computers with various junk around it, glass jars in
windows, pictures of ugly pool  tables, pictures of empty rooms,
pictures of motels marked Red Carpet Inn, self portraits of people who
want to appear like Saint Paul, pictures of empty lots with sheds on
them.  Can anyone help me find fine abstract art such as this, or
point me to an artist who may have creative pieces such as this?  I
especially like photos.  Thanks to anyone in the art world who could
help.

I think I might know just the artist for you... I'll look for the
link.

--
http://youtu.be/r6BGlXmtzE8
Vocals: Will Dockery. Music: The Shadowville Allstars.
Based on "Greybeard Cavalier" by Will Dockery, 0x0000 and Brian
Fowler. Video by Doug Cole

[George Dance]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Reminds me of some of this guy's stuff:
http://www.skypoint.com/members/dmh7/GhostPosters/Borborygmae/


In a couple of cases, (Ozone Stigmata being one I remember), I liked
your detail shot better than the full picture. For that reason I think
I'd appreciate the originals better if I could enlarge them and see
more detail. Not that I didn't like any of them. "Planet Fall" had a
composition I liked; I wouldn't be ashamed to have it on a wall of my
living room.

Unfortunately, this whole way of creating art reminds me of tossing
off -- just throwing something down and hopin the result is art. I see
too much of that in attempts to write poetry, on usenet and elsewyere,
and I don't like it here any better here than there. Occasionally a
good piece does result; but that's always too dependent on accident or
mere coincidence for my liking.

Post by Will Dockery
--
"Twilight Girl" and other song-poems by Will Dockery:http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[msifg]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Reminds me of some of this guy's stuff:
http://www.skypoint.com/members/dmh7/GhostPosters/Borborygmae/


In a couple of cases, (Ozone Stigmata being one I remember), I liked
your detail shot better than the full picture. For that reason I think
I'd appreciate the originals better if I could enlarge them and see
more detail. Not that I didn't like any of them. "Planet Fall" had a
composition I liked; I wouldn't be ashamed to have it on a wall of my
living room.

Unfortunately, this whole way of creating art reminds me of tossing
off -- just throwing something down and hopin the result is art. I see
too much of that in attempts to write poetry, on usenet and elsewyere,
and I don't like it here any better here than there. Occasionally a
good piece does result; but that's always too dependent on accident or
mere coincidence for my liking.




*it's definitely not for everybody.

look-
the most complex work of art that requires
years of schooling to master is always
open to intense scrutiny as well, esp in the art
world.

i think it goes by feel more than technique.

and, i think that's how it goes with writing as well.

the most important thing is to have fun in life.

the cynics disagree. usually, they're off somehere
whining about being better than others and not
actually doing anything worth while themselves.

none of us are going to make any kind of dent
in THAT world. but, for eachother and around
here?- we make plenty of differences in peoples
lives.

to me, that's all that matters in the long run.

rules or no rules.

[FarStar]

Post by msifg
whining about being better than others and not
actually doing anything worth while themselves.

True, that.

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Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm

SteepleJack Beer
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[Will Dockery]

(Google ain't quoting right this morning, or something, so my replies are
with an *)

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons

you prefer.

Post by Will Dockery
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Reminds me of some of this guy's stuff:
http://www.skypoint.com/members/dmh7/GhostPosters/Borborygmae/

*Heh... who would have figured?

Post by Will Dockery
In a couple of cases, (Ozone Stigmata being one I remember), I liked

your detail shot better than the full picture. For that reason I think I'd
appreciate the originals better if I could enlarge >them and see more
detail.

*Yes, as I noted to another person a few minutes ago:

"...The photos were not taken by Martin Scorsese, but just a pal with a
camera, so first off they're not as crisp a veiw as you'd get if you were
standing in the shed with me, but that tossed off comment is typical of your
lazy commentary. I have to say if, say, you think that these two close-ups
of a section of two of the paintings:

http://tinyurl.com/green-planet

compared with

http://tinyurl.com/cqzktb

And still shrug and claim they're 'pretty much the same', then you either
need a new pair of glasses, or you're indulging in your typical, and
tiresomely whining negativity game..."

Oh course, this person (who no doubt fancies himself a better paint dribber)
probably never made it past the opening thumbnail, if his usual standard of
critique is the way he approached these paintings.

But, yes, properly scanned or better photographed, I'm sure they'd have more
of their intended impact, thanks for taking the time to give them a try.

Post by Will Dockery
Not that I didn't like any of them. "Planet Fall" had a

composition I liked; I wouldn't be ashamed to have it on a wall of my living
room.

Post by Will Dockery
Unfortunately, this whole way of creating art reminds me of tossing

off -- just throwing something down and hopin the result is >art.

*I've thrown away and given away many paintings that I think failed...
sometimes to my regret. When I moved out of a house back in 1989, I left all
the paintings I'd done up to that point there, because they just didn't
"move" me anymore, or at least not enough to "move" them... damned heavy
pieces... I feel this batch works better, so far...

Post by Will Dockery
I see

too much of that in attempts to write poetry, on usenet and elsewyere,

Post by Will Dockery
and I don't like it here any better here than there.

*You might like my comix better... maybe...

Post by Will Dockery
Occasionally a

good piece does result; but that's always too dependent on accident or

Post by Will Dockery
mere coincidence for my liking.

*Yes, I'm guilty of about 20 years of poetry that could be judged in that
way, just over the last decade or so knuckling down to working in more
"universal language" and trying the more traditional forms... I credit the
collaborations with musicians who insist on knowing what the hell's going on
at the time with working more and more in that direction,

For example, HC /hates/ things like the title "Ozone Stigmata" and so forth,
he tried to insist we call it "Handbasket From Hell" for weeks, "You gotta
have the listener be able to find it on the jukebox!", but the words "Ozone
Stigmata" are jam-packed with multiple meanings, and I have to stand my
ground in certain cases like these... I can only pander to the masses so
far... heh.

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by Will Dockery
*I've thrown away and given away many paintings that I think failed...

Which would be all of them.

Post by Will Dockery
sometimes to my regret.

Is it psychologically possible for a narcissist to have regrets?

Post by Will Dockery
When I moved out of a house back in 1989,

"moved out" = he came back to find the locks changed and all his shit on the
ground

Post by Will Dockery
I left all
the paintings I'd done up to that point there, because they just didn't
"move" me anymore, or at least not enough to "move" them...

translation: The drugs wore off and he sobered up.

Post by Will Dockery
damned heavy
pieces... I feel this batch works better, so far...

Post by George Dance
I see

too much of that in attempts to write poetry, on usenet and elsewyere,

Post by George Dance
and I don't like it here any better here than there.

*You might like my comix better... maybe...

Post by George Dance
Occasionally a

good piece does result; but that's always too dependent on accident or

Post by George Dance
mere coincidence for my liking.

*Yes, I'm guilty of about 20 years of poetry that could be judged

as total shit and a waste of your entire life. Great job, Duckery. You're
going to die poor and pathetic. Your remains will be cremated and buried in
Potter's Field.

[FarStar]

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
as total shit and a waste of your

boy your a rose aren't you


-------------------------------------------------------------------

Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm

SteepleJack Beer
http://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
as total shit and a waste of your

boy your a rose aren't you

says the Venus Guy Trap. Go play somewhere else, you poor, pathetic,
post-directing NEWBIE.

[FarStar]

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain

Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
as total shit and a waste of your

boy your a rose aren't you

says the Venus Guy Trap. Go play somewhere else, you poor, pathetic,
post-directing NEWBIE.

Waaa, I think you really hurt my feelings, go write something and show how
all your hard work has made you a really great poet.

[msifg]

Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain

Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
as total shit and a waste of your

boy your a rose aren't you

says the Venus Guy Trap. Go play somewhere else, you poor, pathetic,
post-directing NEWBIE.

Waaa, I think you really hurt my feelings, go write something and show how
all your hard work has made you a really great poet.
--
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm
with god and laugh, bring all to shocking rose
with rod and staff we walk a rocky road
SteepleJack Beer
http://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

he's too busy pretending like he has a life.

the real thing would be way too complicated for him.

you're witnessing this man's entire resolve.

he's a court gesture always performing his
pre-show dance.

the real thing is always you and anyone like you
that actually writes and shares your work.

in a way, you could turn it all around and
be somewhat honored by his dance.

for usenet, it's entertainment.

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain

Post by FarStar

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain
as total shit and a waste of your

boy your a rose aren't you

says the Venus Guy Trap. Go play somewhere else, you poor, pathetic,
post-directing NEWBIE.

Waaa, I think you really hurt my feelings, go write something and show how
all your hard work has made you a really great poet.

follow-up directing newbie homo sez what?


Go suck Will off some more, you pathetic twit. I hear he enjoys it.

[FarStar]

I'm going to try to belittle some because it gets my dick harder

big-shooter, whoo

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by FarStar

I'm going to try to belittle some because it gets my dick harder

big-shooter, whoo
--

I see Duckery has taught you the stupider points of post-editing.
Congratulations on achieving such a monumental waypoint of stupidity.

[George Kerby]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor

But what about that thirty pounds of stomach fat? Did you not include that
as material?

[b***@cruziocafe.com]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Not it isn't! Ah Twitch, if only you had a single honest bone in your
body.

What's that 17th slide called? 'Friday Night's Upchuck Chunky - Dried
and Framed'?

-blue

Post by Will Dockery
--
"Twilight Girl" and other song-poems by Will Dockery:http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

Wow, still calling your stuff on myspace song-poems, huh? What a
dreamer, Bill, what a dreamer.

[Charles]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

I especially like "Black and Blue Night."

Thanks for sharing.

[Will Dockery]

Post by Charles

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

I especially like "Black and Blue Night."
Thanks for sharing.

"Black and Blue Night":

Loading Image...

Thanks for having a look, and commenting, Charles. I hope to get a
clearler, sharper shot of this one (and the others) online sometime
soon, as almost two-thirds of this fairly big one is obscured in the
shot. It was freezing, running late, and my friend just took a few
quick shots before we took off for a warm cafe. "BaBN" night was made
with all sorts of plastic toys held on a stick and melted onto the
board... melted plastic is a fairly dangerous medium to work with, to
say the least! If the lava-like heat doesn't get you (which it always
does at some point, human skin seems to have an almost magnetic effect
on it) then the fumes will.

Fascinating experiments, though.

--
"Twilight Girl" and other poetry & music from Will Dockery:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by Charles

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons
you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

I especially like "Black and Blue Night."
Thanks for sharing.

"Black and Blue Night":

http://www.fototime.com/{496A5179-1A5C-46AB-AE9A-B29043A793A4}/picture.JPG

Thanks for having a look, and commenting, Charles. I hope to get a
clearler, sharper shot of this one (and the others) online sometime
soon, as almost two-thirds of this fairly big one is obscured in the
shot.



#So it's HIS fault you're a horrible photographer?




It was freezing, running late, and my friend just took a few
quick shots before we took off for a warm cafe.



#Wow. Lazy in all things. So typically Dockery.




"BaBN" night was made
with all sorts of plastic toys held on a stick and melted onto the
board...



#A fucking ten year old could do the same thing and call it "art."




melted plastic is a fairly dangerous medium to work with, to
say the least! If the lava-like heat doesn't get you (which it always
does at some point, human skin seems to have an almost magnetic effect
on it) then the fumes will.


#Oh yes I am sure you are an expert on "the fumes."





Fascinating experiments, though.


#You're a dumbshit.




--
"I Might Be A Girl" and other poetry & music from Will Dockery:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[FarStar]

so what, you're an aborted baby orc with a pitchfork through your fish-head
supper, yum


-------------------------------------------------------------------
Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm
with god and laugh, bring all to shocking rose
with rod and staff we walk a rocky road

SteepleJack Beer
http://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by FarStar
so what, you're an aborted baby orc with a pitchfork through your fish-head
supper, yum

You are truly a sad piece of shit.

[FarStar]

I'm going to belittle you to and see if you suck my dick

can't suck an imagination

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by FarStar

I'm going to belittle you to and see if you suck my dick

can't suck an imagination

Geez, and here I thought there wasn't anyone lower than Duckery on the
post-editing scale.

[FarStar]

It's a little chaotic Will, that teases the eye, but too fine for me to
tease any dream time. contrasting pallet
but it's all background, like your road picture
give it some subject(s) in contrasting ideology, and you'll be on your way



-------------------------------------------------------------------

Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm

SteepleJack Beer
http://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

[Will Dockery]

On Feb 7, 4:13 pm, FarStar wrote:

Abstract paintings of Will Dockery:
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Post by FarStar
It's a little chaotic Will, that teases the eye, but too fine for me to
tease any dream time.  contrasting pallet
but it's all background, like your road picture
give it some subject(s) in contrasting ideology, and you'll be on your way

Somewhat similar to what you're suggesting here, in a way, was a
conversation I was having with a friend last night on the possibilty
of using Photoshop and layering images, of say, people or other
objects on top of these as backgrounds... sounds like an interesting
idea to experiment with, perhaps animated.

Post by FarStar
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm
SteepleJack Beerhttp://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

--
"Twilight Girl" & other song-poems of Will Dockery:
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[FarStar]

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Post by FarStar
It's a little chaotic Will, that teases the eye, but too fine for me to
tease any dream time.  contrasting pallet
but it's all background, like your road picture
give it some subject(s) in contrasting ideology, and you'll be on your way

Somewhat similar to what you're suggesting here, in a way, was a
conversation I was having with a friend last night on the possibilty
of using Photoshop and layering images, of say, people or other
objects on top of these as backgrounds... sounds like an interesting
idea to experiment with, perhaps animated.

actually I was talking about straight lines and circles, but if life deals
you lemons make lemon aid

Post by Will Dockery

Post by FarStar
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Only got one line to balk all the schizm
SteepleJack Beerhttp://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

--
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

[0x0000]

Post by FarStar

Post by Will Dockery
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Post by FarStar
It's a little chaotic Will, that teases the eye, but too fine for me to
tease any dream time.  contrasting pallet
but it's all background, like your road picture
give it some subject(s) in contrasting ideology, and you'll be on your way

Somewhat similar to what you're suggesting here, in a way, was a
conversation I was having with a friend last night on the possibilty
of using Photoshop and layering images, of say, people or other
objects on top of these as backgrounds... sounds like an interesting
idea to experiment with, perhaps animated.

actually I was talking about straight lines and circles, but if life deals
you lemons make lemon aid

screw lemonade, make a whiskey sour.

Post by FarStar

Post by Will Dockery

Post by FarStar
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Only got one line to balk all the schizm
SteepleJack Beerhttp://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

--
http://www.myspace.com/willdockery

--
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Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm
SteepleJack Beerhttp://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

"Will Dockery" <***@gmail.com> wrote in message news:df0435a9-a0dd-439d-a43e-***@j39g2000yqn.googlegroups.com...
On Feb 7, 4:13 pm, FarStar wrote:

Abstract paintings of Will Dockery:
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

Post by FarStar
It's a little chaotic Will, that teases the eye, but too fine for me to
tease any dream time. contrasting pallet
but it's all background, like your road picture
give it some subject(s) in contrasting ideology, and you'll be on your way

Somewhat similar to what you're suggesting here, in a way, was a
conversation I was having with a friend last night on the possibilty
of using Photoshop and layering images, of say, people or other
objects on top of these as backgrounds... sounds like an interesting
idea to experiment with, perhaps animated.



#You can't even use a can of deoderant without macing yourself, Will. What
the fuck makes you think you'd do any better on a computer?

[FarStar]

dorcus, get off my channel

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by FarStar
dorcus, get off my channel

This isn't a channel you fuckin' moron, it's a NEWSGROUP.

[FarStar]

my dick would feel good up your ass

your imagination gets the better of you penis

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Subjugate the rhyme and rawk with the rhythm
Only got one line to balk all the schizm
with god and laugh, bring all to shocking rose
with rod and staff we walk a rocky road

SteepleJack Beer
http://www.lulu.com/content/5611390

[Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain]

Post by FarStar

my dick would feel good up your ass

your imagination gets the better of you penis

Dude, if you're gay, you don't have to post-edit to try to prove it. I'm
sure Dockery will join you at a gloryhole somewhere.

[On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built]

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

this is most interesting. i spent several summers, whenst in college, working
for a professional house painter. of course he used these huge sail-sheet drop
clothes to protect the floors and furniture from dripping and spilling paint.

his sail-sheet drop clothes had more artistic worth than these things you posted
here.

as for your drawings? what a criminal waste of bandwidth. only a delusional fool
would have posted those embarrassments. the sadness that is you is sometimes
really hard to watch.


most sincerely,

GodBuilt

[Meat Plow]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

[On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built]

Post by Meat Plow
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

don't be absurd, MP, you're completely off here.

dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.

when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the
canvas.

two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created.

and in a way he did.

you give him too much credit!!! :D

most sincerely,

GodBuilt

[Meat Plow]

On 10 Feb 2009 10:28:37 -0800, On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by Meat Plow
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

don't be absurd, MP, you're completely off here.
dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.
when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the
canvas.
two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created.
and in a way he did.
you give him too much credit!!! :D
most sincerely,
GodBuilt

Yes I give Will too much credit but you know what? Besides all his
idiosyncrasies and his peculiar and absurd behavior, I happen to like
Will.

[On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built]

Post by Meat Plow
On 10 Feb 2009 10:28:37 -0800, On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by Meat Plow
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

don't be absurd, MP, you're completely off here.
dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.
when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the
canvas.
two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created.
and in a way he did.
you give him too much credit!!! :D
most sincerely,
GodBuilt

Yes I give Will too much credit but you know what? Besides all his
idiosyncrasies and his peculiar and absurd behavior, I happen to like
Will.

hey, i don't hate the crackerking. i feel sorry for him. i think he's a sad
creature and he's led a pretty wasted life. i think he pathetically believes all
his activities actually make him someone important when he's more than likely
the source of derision, embarrassment and ridicule among most people in his
life. i think he illegally takes government assistance while at the same time
collects a wage he doesn't pay taxes on, using resources other, more needy
people could be using, but i don't hate him.

you can't really hate his crackerness, you can only feel sorry for him.

most sincerely,

GodBuilt

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Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by Meat Plow
On 10 Feb 2009 10:28:37 -0800, On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by Meat Plow
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

don't be absurd, MP, you're completely off here.
dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.
when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the
canvas.
two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created.
and in a way he did.
you give him too much credit!!! :D
most sincerely,
GodBuilt

Yes I give Will too much credit but you know what? Besides all his
idiosyncrasies and his peculiar and absurd behavior, I happen to like
Will.

hey, i don't hate the crackerking. i feel sorry for him. i think he's a sad
creature and he's led a pretty wasted life.

Exactly, I mean it's one thing to figure that out after time has passed you
by and realize you could redeem your life and still have a shot at what you
want to do, hell adults in their 70s and 80s have gone back to college. But
Dockery is so cluelessly self-absorbed and arrogant that in no way will he
ever be able to fully realize how much he's lost -- and with his current
drug-included state of mind, it's a good bet he never will.

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built
i think he pathetically believes all
his activities actually make him someone important

He has compared himself to many famous figures in the past, from Mozart to
Snoopy.

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built
when he's more than likely
the source of derision, embarrassment and ridicule among most people in his
life.

Dockery is the type of person people hang around with only because they're
too polite and feel too sorry for him to tell him to go fuck himself.

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built
i think he illegally takes government assistance while at the same time
collects a wage he doesn't pay taxes on, using resources other, more needy
people could be using, but i don't hate him.

I wouldn't doubt if Duckery has dodged a tax time or two in his life. Or at
least a bath.

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built
you can't really hate his crackerness, you can only feel sorry for him.
most sincerely,
GodBuilt
--
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"I am a false prophet and God is a superstition.." "Again!"
There Will Be Blood

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Post by Meat Plow
On 10 Feb 2009 10:28:37 -0800, On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by Meat Plow
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

don't be absurd, MP, you're completely off here.
dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.
when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the
canvas.
two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created.
and in a way he did.
you give him too much credit!!! :D
most sincerely,
GodBuilt

Yes I give Will too much credit but you know what? Besides all his
idiosyncrasies and his peculiar and absurd behavior, I happen to like
Will.

And when you sober up?

[Will Dockery]

Post by Meat Plow

Post by Will Dockery
Meat Plow says...

Post by Meat Plow

I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on it.
when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the canvas.
two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created.
and in a way he did.

Yes I give Will too much credit but you know what? Besides all his
idiosyncrasies and his peculiar and absurd behavior, I happen to like
Will.

Well, anyone who sticks their neck out by doing abstract art probably
knows full well that comments like the usual ones are sure to
follow... but I've always loved that kind of art and sure take
pleasure in creating them, so all that's worth it.

--
http://youtu.be/r6BGlXmtzE8
Vocals: Will Dockery. Music: The Shadowville Allstars. Based on
"Greybeard Cavalier" by Will Dockery, 0x0000 and Brian Fowler.
Video by Doug Cole

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Post by Meat Plow

Post by Will Dockery
Meat Plow says...

Post by Meat Plow

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings,
which some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever
reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk, and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on it.
when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the canvas.
two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created.
and in a way he did.

Yes I give Will too much credit but you know what? Besides all his
idiosyncrasies and his peculiar and absurd behavior, I happen to like
Will.

Well, anyone who sticks their neck out by doing abstract art probably
knows full well that comments like the usual ones are sure to
follow... but I've always loved that kind of art and sure take
pleasure in creating them, so all that's worth it.



You enjoy creating pieces of shit? You must eat a lot of fiber.

[Will Dockery]

Meat Plow says...

Post by Meat Plow

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

The style's called "Action Painting":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_painting

"...Action painting, sometimes called "gestural abstraction", is a
style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed
or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied.[1]
The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting
itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its
artist...'

This part's good:

"...According to Harold Rosenberg the canvas was 'an arena in which to
act' [...] it was the physicality of the paintings' clotted and oil-
caked surfaces that was the key to understanding them as documents of
the artists' existential struggle [...] Rosenberg's critique shifted
the emphasis from the object to the struggle itself, with the finished
painting being only the physical manifestation, a kind of residue, of
the actual work of art, which was in the act or process of the
painting's creation [...] Over the next two decades, Rosenberg's
redefinition of art as an act rather than an object, as a process
rather than a product, was influential, and laid the foundation for a
number of major art movements, from Happenings and Fluxus to
Conceptual, Performance art, Installation art and Earth Art..."

Anyway, thanks for having a look and commenting.

--
http://youtu.be/r6BGlXmtzE8
Vocals: Will Dockery. Music: The Shadowville Allstars. Based on
"Greybeard Cavalier" by Will Dockery, 0x0000 and Brian Fowler.
Video by Doug Cole

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Post by Will Dockery
Meat Plow says...

Post by Meat Plow

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

Looks more like "Lazy Drunken Crap" to me.

[Dale Houstman]

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain

Post by Will Dockery
Meat Plow says...

Post by Meat Plow

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

Looks more like "Lazy Drunken Crap" to me.

The funny thing? He thinks his "paintings" possess a "style"...

dmh

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Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Orsen Wells w/Citizen Cain

Post by Will Dockery
Meat Plow says...

Post by Meat Plow

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever
reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

Looks more like "Lazy Drunken Crap" to me.

The funny thing? He thinks his "paintings" possess a "style"...
dmh

Well if crap is a style...

[Will Dockery]

Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Meat Plow

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

The funny thing? He thinks his "paintings" possess a "style"...

Even funnier is your self-critique yesterday where you confess you
find your "Today Was Pot Holder Day" poem "charming"... that pretty
much reveals all we need to know about your jealous complaints.

--
Abstract paintings of Will Dockery:
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F

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Post by Will Dockery

Post by Dale Houstman

Post by Meat Plow

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

The funny thing? He thinks his "paintings" possess a "style"...

Even funnier is

...the fact that you continue to do the stupid shit you do even after it's
been pointed out to you what a hopeless half-wit you are?

[Will Dockery]

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk,

Actually, it was the combined fumes of all the paints, solvents and
melted plastics, but close enough.

and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built
when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the canvas.
two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created. and in a way he did.

Amazingly, that's exactly how it happened!

A "charming" collection of work, as Dale Houseman would proclaim, if
he had created it.

--
http://youtu.be/r6BGlXmtzE8
Vocals: Will Dockery. Music: The Shadowville Allstars. Based on
"Greybeard Cavalier" by Will Dockery, 0x0000 and Brian Fowler.
Video by Doug Cole

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Post by Will Dockery

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

dockery put a canvas on the floor because he can't afford a rug (or much else),
got drunk,

Actually, it was the combined fumes of all the paints, solvents and
melted plastics, but close enough.

So you admit you were either stupid enough to not allow for fresh air or you
were simply wanting to get high. Either way it makes you a dumbshit.

Post by Will Dockery
and when he passed out he fell into a shelf that had paint cans on
it.

Post by On The Highways and Bi-Ways God Built
when he woke up 12 hours later, he noticed the paint cans had fallen on the canvas.
two weeks later, when he finally decided to clean up, THAT'S when he noticed
that he could pass the mess up as something he created. and in a way he did.

Amazingly, that's exactly how it happened!

Sadly, that is no surprise.

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Post by Meat Plow
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:45:24 -0500, "Will Dockery"

Post by Will Dockery
I've posted a new gallery of some of my recent abstract paintings, which
some of you may have an interest in checking out, for whichever reasons you
prefer.
These paintings are made with a variety of materials from oil, watercolor
http://www.fototime.com/inv/E917106F136751F
Comments and critique, as with all my work in all forms, is most welcome.

Looks like you put the canvas on the floor and dumped paint on it.

that ain't all paint