Daily Archives: March 20, 2014

… may be complete. If so, here’s the way it lays out in Philudoria’s Falmouth Gallery:

Floor 0/Basement:

Steptoe Animation:

Collage 01 (Steptoe, WA)
Collage 02 (Steptoe, WA/ animation)
Collage 03 (Steptoe, WA)
Collage 04 (Steptoe, WA/ animation)
Collage 05 (Steptoe, WA)
Collage 06 (Steptoe, WA)

Floor 1:

Collage 07: (“Pepperland”)
Collage 08: (ME)
Collage 09: (“Shiningland”; WY)
Collage 10: “Beetlemania” (Steptoe, WA/ animation)
Collage 11: “Good Grief!” (“Pepperland”)
Collage 12: “Red Rock” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 13: “This is The Place” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 14: “2:23” (WY)
Collage 15: “Grayson (Dis/En)closure“ (Mythopolis, NC)
Collage 16: “Woods Slider Upper” (Mythopolis, NC)
Collage 17: “Separate but Equal” (Lake District, UK; Jeogeot, Second Life)
Collage 18: (Sky Valley, GA)

Floor 2:

Collage 19: Greenup Revisited 01 (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 20: Greenup Revisited 02 (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 21: “Heads/Tails?” (Steptoe, WA/ animation)
Collage 22: “Erie Pool” (Jeogeot, Second Life)
Collage 23: (Abingdon, VA)
Collage 24: (“Shiningland”)
Collage 25: “Bee Lee Line” (Abingdon, VA)
Collage 26: “Stonethwaite End and Restaurant” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 27: “Nobody’s Home” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 28: “Forgotten Green” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 29: (Stonethwaite, UK/ diptych)
Collage 30: (Stonethwaite, UK/ diptych)

Floor 3:

Collage 31: (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 32: (Stonethwaite, UK/ diptych x2)
Collage 33: (Stonethwaite, UK/ diptych x2)
Collage 34: “Goodbye VWX Town” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 35: (animation) (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 36: (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 37: (- [extension of Collage 35])
Collage 38: “Cover Up” (animation) (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 39: “End Ball” (Wiltshire, UK)

Floor 4:

Collage 40: “5 1/2 Acre Plot of Land” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 41: “Clock Rock” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 42: (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 43: “Joe Rock” (Stonethwaite, UK)
Collage 44: “Fairy Branch” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 45: “Painting<Painter” (ME)
Collage 46: “2989” (Blue Mtn., NC; animation)
Collage 46.5: (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 47: “Sky Diamond” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 48: “Ghost Sticks” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 49: “Jasper 04 Revisited” (Blue Mtn., NC)
Collage 50: “Unboxed” (Second Life; animation)
Collage 51: “Humanvillians” (unk.)

What I noticed about these were that many, if not the majority, remain unnamed. Contrast this to the 100 Art 10×10 collages, all of which had names if I remember correctly. Also Gilatona-Lis collages had names, I believe. I just produced them so fast in this case. There are 2 diptychs, just like in Gilatona-Lis, and just like in that earlier series from a year ago. There’s a “normal” diptych and then a double diptych, the largest work of each series respectively. Falmouth contains many more animations than Gilatona-Lis, and I always count those as *1* collage now, as opposed to Greenup, say (which contains 4 animations that I count as 8 separate collages).

From Collage 25 on to Collage 38, the setting is the tiny hamlet of Stonethwaite, UK, in the heart of England’s Lake District. I count Greenup Gill photos as Stonethwaite location for simplicity’s sake. That takes us almost to the end of the series, but what might be the final, final collage is instead set in Wiltshire County, England, the setting for almost all the Gilatona-Lis work but the first such backdrop used for the Falmouth collages. It takes place within a spring crop circle, coming from Yarnbury in 2012 — called “End Ball”.

Again, I’m wondering how to approach an overall interpretation. I think Hucka D. wants me to start in Stonethwaite and bring in other resonations. Once more, the series begins solidly in Steptoe, WA, forming an overall “Steptoe Animation” — first of its kind in my art. Then there’s a pause in the action as I complete my “6 Weeks of Shining” text, then a resumption with the creation of the Shining Pyramid within the Sgt. Pepper cover, a possible subject of some note in and of itself. Or at least Hucka is inferring it is.

Hucka D.:

You start with the largest work and plug in other Stonethwaite “side” collages. This is Collage 32/33, but can actually be divided into 4 parts. Collages 26-31 before it take place within the limits of Stonethwaite as well. Collages 19, 20, and 34 surrounding this core come from nearby Greenup Gill. The Collage 35 animation instead takes us to the interior of the largest Stonethwaite structure, the Stonethwaite End and Restaurant as we’re calling it in this here blog. We do not have interior shots before this, nor afterwards really. Who is waiting in the End and Rest.? Days Ravie of The Kniks is who, along with Edward. A different Edward is found in Collage 16, one of 2 set in Mythopolis. And Dorothy of Oz is in Collage 35. And the two sides of the Korean Channel “E”, one for each of the 2 part animation. Ray turns around in his chair, and the “E” switches from front to back as well. The Korean Channel “E” reappears in the second and last animation on this floor: Collage 38, or “Cover Up”. There it is associated with Box Peanut, also seen in the other, smaller Stonethwaite diptych (Collage 30). Box Peanut meets and interacts with actual 12 Oz Mouse Peanut in this collage. Likewise, Box Peanut is similarly interacting or talking, perhaps, with the Korean Channel “E” in Collage 38. All of these objects must be seen as one in the bigger Falmouth picture. Why is Kubrick’s hand covering up the interaction in Collage 38?

bb:

I’m toggling back and forth between Collage 30 and Collage 38 in attempting to answer, Hucka D. The interaction is identical. Ringo Starr, with an actual star placed on him in Collage 30, has transposed to a gray, handless being in 38. This gray person, besides having no hands, has a giant 8 ball in place of a head. This may represent a black hole, Hucka. “Infinity the star that would not die”. (pause) So let’s turn to the Green Being right behind the E in Collage 38. He/it is associated with the green algae forming in the Tarn of Leaves, a summit just south of Stonethwaite. Stonethwaite can actually be seen in the distance in this animation, and has its own “E” as a marker. This is the forwards version of the same “E” again. In the Greenup series, Stonethwaite is similarly associated with the letter “D”, emerging from a miniature version. And this is one of the few (only?) images not transposed to the big collage of Falmouth, where we turn around the heart of the village to take all in. But back to Ringo — we also can identify the Gray Being as Ringo because the number 8 is attached to him through the Shining Pyramid, where he assumes the 8th position of 10 or 11. The Gray Being in 38 and Ringo in 30 have almost the same torso position. Yet lacking in hands, the being in 38 cannot possibly shake hands with anyone, as Starr is doing with Coburn in 30. The shiny star on Starr here is linked to the Texaco star through the fireman’s helmet. Let me pull up a picture. Peanut wears it in the background, and now Wendy/Shelley Duvall is doing the same in the foreground. This is another link, because the 8 ball contains a *red shadow* on it where a fire helmet might be hung on it. This is just the reflection of a neighboring pool ball, however, from the picture I culled it from. Then in the other part of the diptych with Collage 30, or what we’re calling Collage 29 here, we have another representation of a black hole that Baker b. is staring at in the formerly dark hole — now brightly illuminated. This rectangular bit of brightness is actually found first in Gilatona-Lis.

Hucka D.:

I want to stop you there. The black hole is the tunnel underneath the Devizes castle. This is one of the two closed entrances. This is the black hole. There’s something very important about this.

bb:

Eyes stare from the tree misted by the reclining, “spotty” “E” here, Hucka D. This is yet another spirit formation, just like the eye and the dough face from Devizes. The eyes were just taken from a GoogleEarth Streetview photo of Stonethwaite. Collages 25, 29, 32, and 33 have this in common — all Streetview, and all from Stonethwaite.

Hucka D.:

Collages 25 and 29 mirror each other (once more). They come from opposite ends of Stonethwaite, where you can’t see from the central 32/33. Both 25 and 29 have that same “E” present, the same as the Korean Channel “E” obviously. None of the images of 25 and 29 reappear in the big 32/33 double diptych except for the 2 walking Beetles at the far right of 25. The other 2 walking Beetles from Abbey Road are seen in the next collage, 26, along with Lisa the Vegetarian perched on a rock in a misty and impossible Stonethwaite waterfall. Fall has come to Stonethwaite. Opposite of Spring. Lisa V. seeks Paul McCartoony, but instead finds Nobody’s Home. Mr. Nobody, who left his shadow outside by the top of the falls. Walking McCartney is not the same as McCartooney, the one who gives such sage advice to the girl. He tells her how to live a life of vegetarianism beyond the Piggies. Yet in Collage 31, McCartooney and wife Linda appear *without Lisa*. Is this another animation. They appear in the center of Stonethwaite, sitting on a wall about a red phone booth. Or actually sitting on top of a car parked next to this phone. Story Room has taken over the village with their alien presence. Presents?

bb:

Then… go ahead.

Hucka D.:

Then in Collage 28 we see the back of a house with images also not found in 32/33. So we’re looking all around Stonethwaite, like cubism as you said. We even go inside a restaurant later in Collage 35, another animation. That’s the one with Days Ravie and Edward Swift awaiting us, along with Dorothy and the “E”. They are giving information to you, us, about the mirroring process of Stonethwaite, and how it is a portal maker. You must go to Dock Tarn next.

bb:

Am I not yet finished?

Hucka D.:

No.