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  • [RE]MISSIONS
    • What could possibly be leftover after all this wreckage?
    • Can a new, solid base be created... from almost nothing?
    • You've ended up least where expected, again
    • An impromptu mission to rid oneself of wants, expectations and fears driven almost entirely by desire, dreams and, well... fear
    • It STARTED with, (stopped) and RE-STARTS with a walk... STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
  • RE-THINKING(s)
    • THE FALLOUT- hodge-podge
    • FALLOUT - House - Home - Soul
    • Ancient Inspirations - ANOTHER REMNANT
    • Recent Impetus - ANOTHER REMNANT
  • RE... Sta(r)t
    • A little bit about this... [WEBSITE]
  • REBUILD
    • Assembling >
      • Assembling 2
    • THE ORIGINAL SKETCHES >
      • NoteBOOK BLOG
      • APRIL 2015
    • JUST SKETCHES
  • [RE]MISSIONS
    • What could possibly be leftover after all this wreckage?
    • Can a new, solid base be created... from almost nothing?
    • You've ended up least where expected, again
    • An impromptu mission to rid oneself of wants, expectations and fears driven almost entirely by desire, dreams and, well... fear
    • It STARTED with, (stopped) and RE-STARTS with a walk... STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
  • RE-THINKING(s)
    • THE FALLOUT- hodge-podge
    • FALLOUT - House - Home - Soul
    • Ancient Inspirations - ANOTHER REMNANT
    • Recent Impetus - ANOTHER REMNANT

STRUGGLING WITH... HOW FAR FLUNG?

4/26/2015

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STRUGGLING WITH... HOW FAR FLUNG?

...struggling with the details of the (yet un-named) piece. The piece that was never started but most obsessed over... four years. While walking back from the point, the site of MISSION ONE part one, I imagined it afloat. I was imagining it in operation (getting quite the chuckle from that) as it flung folks here and there... I figured, if I were to start flinging folks, it may be best to have it out on a lake so that those flung folks would land in the water... Now then, can a human being survive being flung, catapulted from atop a near 100' pole into even water? This needs researching... • Oh, and we found some other things while out and about today as well • APR 27 From time to...
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...time we seem to stumble across things can be used immediately. Reference for the nut and bolt assembly that attaches the erect to the supine; thoughts on these chairs and what they might mean (if you recall, each and every element will have meaning, if not more)... And then even more old and far too obvious artworks from the ancient art career... this one actually built then destroyed almost immediately. I believe I re-used the crane-like feature as the leg for a wall mounted kitchen table...
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MISSION THREE [OUTCOMES] BEGINS (apparently not) IN EARNEST...

4/25/2015

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MISSION THREE [OUTCOMES] BEGINS (apparently not) IN EARNEST...

APR 25... lets just say, MISSION THREE got off to an interesting start, with... punctuation... not sure what to say about this day really. Was last night another mission? If so, it was successful in spurring some thinking for the yet to be named 3rd element... AND it looks as though we can call it the ceremonial start to the MISSION... it looks like time will make it's play... TIME "is a gift, not a threat"...
Life is a hospital where every patient is obsessed by the desire of changing beds. One would like to suffer opposite the stove, another is sure he would get well beside the window. - Charles Baudelaire
...OH SO MUCH MORE :-)
Me thinketh the weekend's allotment of time spent on missions... booked
APR 26 Just how MUCH time has there been since 1980 and 2015? The easy answer, 35 years... this project demands the uneasy answers :-)
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APR 25 (EOD)... It was one of those sets of days that generated a story to be told another day. A big story? Oh, it will be told that way... A good story? Indeed it could be framed either way. Good in so much as although the arch was short, it's path, crisp, to the point... The better outcome, a flurry of sketchbook activity for this madness; work done on other job sites and... the possibility I might just sleep through this night. HOW MUCH MORE TIME, AND HOW MANY MORE TIMES? Which way and how far will I be flung... tomorrow?
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AND THIS ASPECT? WILL IT PROVE MORE IMPORTANT?

4/23/2015

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AND THIS ASPECT? WILL IT PROVE MORE IMPORTANT?

Roughly... a few friends seem to be following along in my madness :-) Well, isn't that nice... it's 2015 I guess... (more on this note sooner or later)


Visit the project on my personal Facebook page... if you dare :-)
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THIS ASPECT WILL LIKELY PROVE MORE IMPORTANT

4/23/2015

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THIS ASPECT WILL LIKELY PROVE MORE IMPORTANT

APR 25 I'm more than certain the geography of these missions will expand considerably... Of course many mission may not even leave this desktop. Going to try and keep meticulous track of any travels, or simply points along the way that may have taken place, somewhere specific, ages ago... there are after all 30 some odd sites in the old city of Toronto alone... (map found here, for now)
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JUST MORE NOTES AND A LITTLE ASSEMBLAGE

4/20/2015

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JUST MORE NOTES AND A LITTLE ASSEMBLAGE

APR 21... I noticed (obsessed?) last night that the (heart) house was based on 10' x 10'... is this something I should look into? How doggedly should I pursue the factor of the dogmatic 3? hmmm... I mean the whole thing could begin to seem more obvious than I'd like (although, perhaps it's an obvious ruse) :-)  ...arrgh, but it will have 4 walls... then he thinks, but, it will have six surfaces... (something tells me the little house will be resized...
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​APR 21... Obviously heart, mind and soul kinda stuck with me... (but that? That's just plain obvious) :-)
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NO PLANS FOR CONDUCTING THE NEXT PART OF THE MATERIALS MISSION, BUT MORE NOTES AND MORE ASSEMBLAGE

4/19/2015

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NO PLANS FOR CONDUCTING THE NEXT PART OF THE MATERIALS MISSION, BUT MORE NOTES AND MORE ASSEMBLAGE

APR 21 Sunday saw me awake to more of the melancholy... BUT, the day ended well... very well! Rocks were tossed... things let go of... new things grabbed onto, to be held onto not so tightly? Not likely... not likely... as it would appear, I let go of nothing at all. (case in point)
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APR 21 As I half suspected... much of this is going to become about the rigging itself... (and? What's with this "skewered again" business?)
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THE SECOND PART OF THE MATERIALS MISSION... UNFOLDS ACROSS A SMALL TRIANGULAR SECTION OF DOWNTOWN KINGSTON

4/18/2015

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THE SECOND PART OF THE MATERIALS MISSION... UNFOLDS ACROSS A SMALL TRIANGULAR SECTION OF DOWNTOWN KINGSTON

​APR 18 A walk from one important place to the next on a gorgeous Saturday morning... APR 20 At least one cat has escaped the bag, no? :-) Begs the question: "By which door do you come before him?" (...if that question alone doesn't completely freak out an old friend or two, frighten another and really piss off more than I care to imagine :-) • I'm now wondering how the original builder might respond to the question? As it's asked; that it was asked at all. • Who were we then? What were the motives, ideas, the thinking behind these original little sketches... the obsessive thoughts? It could easily have simply been... let's get laid (or let's get laid as an analogy to "love me, love me, say that you love me, hold me hold me say that you want me") • Who WAS I trying to impress? Am I trying to impress someone... this time around? • Motive... why the fuck does anyone make/create sometime any how? (money vs. sex vs. joy)
APR 21 (later): Of course ALL OF THIS will have to be translated into an obtuse, fancy-pants (virtually unreal) "artists statement" :-)
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THE SECOND TASK AT HAND [THE ASSEMBLAGE] BEGINS. A BIT OUT OF SEQUENCE... RIGHT ON SCHEDULE

4/18/2015

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THE SECOND TASK AT HAND [THE ASSEMBLAGE] BEGINS. A BIT OUT OF SEQUENCE... RIGHT ON SCHEDULE

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​APR 19 One of the end games is to recreate as perfect a virtual realization of my ancient art careeras possible; why? I really don't know yet • I really don't • ?

APR 21 Second chances after long pauses? An answer to regrets? Certainly not a longing look back, but maybe a bit of a wistful "remember when"... (why not?) Perhaps I wish I were more courageous back then, but this is not what I recall... I more remember a fella who didn't so much take the easy way out but allowed the next fancied challenge to have it's way...
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APR 21 ...look at this old fool taking the time to learn software he'll never ever use to make a little money... finally a proper skill set :-) How far will you push this un-reality... time will tell, I guess..
APR 21 ...and then the dreaded notion of time creeps into the picture: "I learned to treat time as a gift, rather than a threat" - (me rethinks)
REFERENCE: current state of the assemblage • ​
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NOTES FLOW UPON THE COMPLETION OF... THE SECOND PART OF THE MATERIALS MISSION...

4/18/2015

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NOTES FLOW UPON THE COMPLETION OF... THE SECOND PART OF THE MATERIALS MISSION...

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​POF VERBATIM: "A suggestion, meet for a coffee and then walk out to Modern Fuel; I haven't seen the current show there yet and it closes Saturday. A thought" - Gordon :-) • APR 21 Likely a good thing, as there's only one I know who'd like be able to respond to the show that was hung there last month (yikes, you mean to world is still full of bad, no... art I do not like?) :-) • Maybe I should have asked one of the other two? :-) (YES, I did have a date that Saturday night, out of the blue and into... another story)
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COMPLETING THE FIRST MISSION INVIGORATES THE PROCESS...

4/16/2015

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COMPLETING THE FIRST MISSION INVIGORATES THE PROCESS...

​APR 20: This whole thing grows legs (or is it wings) or better yet, ARMs after we completed first mission... Out for a coffee, the very next day... out comes the sketchbook... the structure of how these pieces will be built here, in this virtual big room with big white walls is laided out, AND... a more detailed (almost as detailed as the original drawn back in the 1980s) emerges... I miss drawing (and am quite out of practice)
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APR 18 Thought it might be fun if you could see my now current artist's studio which also doubles as a desk and a prayer chair... This chair will take on further significance, IF this project becomes significant at all...
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APR 18..every once in a while it would seem, I'm likely going to have to sort this all out. This is how I used to work, pen on paper, writing furiously... notes... all over :-)
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APR 18 On April 16th, after completing the first of quite possibly many missions, I upgraded the sketch for "Ride the Wild Jesus"...
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    The original sketches took place from April 2015 through August 2015... It really was just a flurry of activity as I excited myself with the notion of taking some old sculptures I'd started while at OCA and... rebuild them. I didn't have a clue how I might want this to all end up, it was really a cathartic exercise in the end... There's a lot of scrolling here, don't worry if you get bored along the way... I'm hoping this will all make a little more sense one day. In the meantime... 

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