More work in Progress

Today I've been listening to WWOZ wind down the last hours of Carnival before lent. Fat Tuesday is a day to get yer yayas out. Since I can't be there I've been conjuring my muse during the past few days. The quicktime show above is of a new body of work which addresses the history and language of portraiture. It's very different work for me in since it reverses my process and the drawings become photographs! Very appropriate for my dyslexic, ambidextrous state of being...

If you like the new work or find it interesting please share!
To really appreciate the day turn your digital dial to wwoz. They are broadcasting from Cafe Brazil on Frenchman St... with the best horn sections in the world. An on-going titles in my work evolved from the coffee shop that was run by the same crew of bohos that opened Cafe Brazil back in the last 80's or early 90's. Does anyone remember "Until waiting Fills?" It was the black hole of hip when Reagan was running the country and Edwin Edwards was gambling with Louisiana tax dollars in Vegas under the name of Wang Chung. It would be a much simpler felony to commit these days... now that NOLA has casinos.


This photo was taken back in the day... with the lucky bead lady standing in front of the cafe. I pulled it from the Fare Grounds website. The photo is from an exhibition at Fare Grounds which presented art and artifacts from the history of NOLA's great coffee houses.