i have been doing 'real time' drawings, making short videos, the last week +; since CMA [one of the many banes of my existence] has been off before Isaac; it goes out if one of the cats fart. but i have been enjoying doing the drawings; i take sketchbooks with me to doctors & hospital appointments- and have traded in my ritual of journal writing EVERY morning [since "aint nothin' goin' on but the rent" gwen guthrie] for drawing when i have my morning coffee and smokes ritual.
did a lot of mardi gras, carnival, halloween, hospitals, cafe, bar, street scenes, erotica, and tres "under ground/unter welt" stuff. some way too risque for funreaux. visual memoirs of my past lives; as errol flynn wrote "my wicked wicked ways" have considered putting the originals online and selling them all off, [after i scan copies for myself] since many are 6x9, and 8x11ish; big enough to go into a priority mail envelope. BUT i am also doing as much work as i can, to draw from "the best of the best" [hi beege and pifou] of new work, for my one man show in Switzerland in May 2013.
i was asked today via text [by herr arender] to do a piece for his
Monster Show at the upcoming Art Crawl; and hopefully it will be cool
enough by then for me to crawl. i thought about possibly using one of my BIG 'analog/real
time' collages "lust auf luxus" which is very vampirish- BUT decided to
do something new. considering it is election time, that in itself is a horror enough. as said, i had been doing drawings, but decided to stop [after about 100] and begin doing some photomontage. and here is a small version of what i did for the Monster Show today:
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| BEAST - PHOTOMONTAGE/DIGITAL COLLAGE- 11.75" X 36"- [C] 2012 DOUG DUFFEY |
the above version which will be shown framed; will be 11.75x36"- [and yes is for sale] but, i also did a version that is 24x 73". that one will have to be a special order/'commission'.
i began this newest photomontage phase/edition with one titled "the death of anita berber" [after doing several drawings of the same title] who is my new favorite hero/heroin[e]- i knew of her from the Otto Dix painting, and her roles in films, most notably,"different from the others"- but she was the queen of obscene. absolutely scandalous. i have always said that i WISHED i would have lived in BERLIN in the 1920s into 1930s- the Weimar era, pre-fascism. everything i have ever read about it, or seen in films, documentaires etc. it was the wildest place on earth [still is!!!] -and Anita was the queen of the scene. it's said when she died [at 29] she was surrounded by statues of the Virgin Mary, and syringes.
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| THE DEATH OF ANITA BERBER- PHOTOMONTAGE/DIGITAL COLLAGE- 20"X30"- [C] 2012 DOUG DUFFEY |
since it's said one sees their life 'flash before their eyes' when dying, thus all the various multiple images of Anita. there is also the android woman from Metropolis [inside the rings] over which i superimposed an old time hypodermic syringe [whic is shaped like a cross] and the Virgin. Check it all out in the film "Legendary Sin Cities - Paris, Berlin & Shanghai"
“When fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in the flag and
waving a cross” - Huey P Long [or Sinclair Lewis- or God knows whom]...
One of my favorite quotes, that came to mind as i was doing new digital collages/aka photomontage- due to it being 'election year'. have
done several socio political works this week, and this time- unlike
during the Bush era, when i was afraid to post any of my anti W &
co. protest artwork- i AM going to post some of it. during w's reign, if you said anything against that regime you were
deemed unpatriotic and worse. however, it is MY opinion that one's patriotic duty is to
question authority AND speak truth to power; protest songs, protest art, protests period!
thus, i have begun a few new pieces and i am certain more will come.
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| PREACHING TO THE CHOIR- PHOTOMONTAGE/DIGITAL COLLAGE- 20"X30"- [C] 2012 DOUG DUFFEY |
GLAW-REE! that's about what it t.i.z.+ preaching to the choir [on both sides, to be fair] - i used a big photo of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir [hi crunchie] and the Tabernacle- but have Krugerands as columns, over the pipe organ, with gold coins as the "capital"s or finials; capital seems more fitting. there's also a few oil rigs and money and a nuclear plant- but it has to be seen larger to see all the details. again: layers on top of layers... sort of like a lot of the "untruths" i have heard were touted as gospel at the RNC. thank god i turned off cable last year, and only stream netflix and fandor to my tv via roku/wifi- so i do not have to watch anything i don't want to. i loathe commercial tv- and most domestic films totally suck. absolutely NO imagination, no plots etc. just the same blockbuster crap. so thank god for fandor & netflix [which is NOT as good as Fandor] AND internet archive & youtube, where i can download public domain complete films- and either burn them to dvd to watch on the tv- OR just watch them on my laptop. but back to this blog
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| G.O.P.= GREED ON PARADE- PHOTOMONTAGE/DIGITAL COLLAGE- 20"X30"- [C] 2012 DOUG DUFFEY |
OKAY now we get to political protest. i never could understand how Ms Rice could be a republican- but i saw her on "Finding Your Roots" and she's 40% "caucasian"- maybe that explains it? after the incident with the newscaster @ the RNC [black woman being thrown peanuts and told "this is how we feed the animals" by some jerks] i figured i wasnt too far off the mark by putting the 'colored served in rear' - we have NOT come that far. and everyone knows the GO is filled with gays -maybe more than the Dems- "Log Cabin Republicans"???? mmm hmmm... and rumor has it Karl, the evil genius behind both W campaigns and dastardly doings, is "one of the club"... [one of the specialized ones] jes saying. let me put a big LOL here, so i don't get sued. big brother IS watching us.
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| MITT BUSH- PHOTOMONTAGE/DIGITAL COLLAGE- 20"X30"- [C] 2012 DOUG DUFFEY |
it seem to me that Mitt is just W in "duh" face; as if anyone could be more 'duh' than W. those goofy looks and smitty smith no neck turn arounds and such; like a BAD stand up comic...only i ain't laughing. i don't know what planet he and his posse are from, but they ain't from nowhere near MY world...or my reality. His suits probably cost more than my car. THEY seem to be completely out of touch with reality as it is, and every day normal Americans- or maybe i am! maybe 20 years in Europe has put me out of touch; but nah, i have always thought the way i think- i was a Hippie, after all. even though i was never REALLY political, [except that i couldn't stand Nixon or Reagan or W's daddy] i became political when W ran for office. BTW i don't see what all the worship of Reagan was about. i didn't see that he did anything except deregulate every damned thing; i dont see that he stopped the cold war. Nancy running to her psychic before he could even break wind, much less make any decision; hollywood hoodoo in the white house. lawd hab mussy.
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| PAUL [RYAN] CHENEY- PHOTOMONTAGE- [C]2012 DOUG DUFFEY |
which brings us to my run for office. but, after this rant, i'm too tired to even talk about running just now...
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| DOUG DUFFEY FOR PRESIDENT- LETS FIX THIS MESS |
[c] 2012 doug duffey
