Month: April 2024

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Supernumerary

Double rainbow, Edgewood, KY, 2024-04-12, 18:43 hrs.

I know, it’s not science fiction. It’s not unheard of. It’s not even all that rare. I just saw this on the way to work and thought I snap a pic. I don’t see them very often.

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Friday Night Videos presents… Prince, “The Future”

Yellow smiley offers me X,
Like he’s drinking 7-Up,
I would rather drink six razor blades,
Razor blades from a paper cup.
He can’t understand,
I say, “Too tough.”
It’s just that I’ve seen the future,
And, boy, it’s rough.
I’ve seen the future and it will be.
I’ve seen the future and it works.
If there’s life after, we will see.
So you can’t go like a jerk.
No, no…

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Random Artwork Wednesday: “A Bowl Of Rice”

Christopher Woodall, A Bowl Of Rice, 2024, tempera and acrylic on canvas, 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in)

䷾ – Hexagram 63 of the I Ching, commonly interpreted as Already Fording or After Completion. Its lower trigram is ☲, meaning radiance, fire. Its upper trigram is ☵, meaning gorge, water.

For a while now I’ve been familiar with the concept of a palimpsest, something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. Usually this refers to writing over partially erased words, but I wanted to create a painted palimpsest. The original painting can be seen below. Once completed, I spray painted a thin coat of flat black over that painting, let it dry completely, then removed some of the black spray paint with sandpaper. This gave me a black canvas with patches of darkened turquoise, yellow, and red showing through. This was the canvas on which I painted A Bowl Of Rice; you can still see some of these details behind the red bars. The Guns Of The Navarone was later painted on a new canvas using photographs of this test painting as a guide.