Monthly Archives: March 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.

Hucka D. (singing):

I don’t like spiders and snakes. And that ain’t what it takes to love me…

bb:

Hi Hucka D.

Hucka D. (finishing his singing):

Like I want to be loved by you. Oooo!

bb:

Fantastic. Never heard you sing before.

Hucka D.:

I have a better voice than you!

bb:

Sounds like it. Kind of a woman-y voice. Sorry.

Hucka D.:

It’s a bee’s voice. Part bee.

bb:

I’m here, though, about the collages.

Hucka D.:

Great! You want to talk about the two parter?

bb:

Probably. I think we have to. Sometime.

Hucka D.:

I’ll get Earl.

bb:

Earl? (Hucka D. exits left, returns with Earl, an owl).

Hucka D.:

Say hello to Earl. (Earl, a white barn owl seemingly, looks at me expectantly.)

bb:

Hi Earl? What’s shaking.

(Earl opens his mouth, as if attempting to speak.)

Hucka D. (apparently translating):

Earl says “nothing [ is shaking].”

bb:

Cool. I suppose that’s best.

Hucka D.:

Earl’s going to help us with the collages. He’s from Greenup Gill!

bb:

I kind of doubt that.

Hucka D.:

Doubt not!

bb:

Okay, he’s from Greenup Gill. What else does he have to say tonight?

Hucka D.:

Oh this and that. He’s a regular chatterbox most of the time. Aren’t you Earl?

(Earl opens his mouth again.)

Hucka D. (leaning over toward Earl):

What’s that? (listening again) You’re uncomfortable with this stranger? Why this is no stranger, Earl. This is baker b.!

(Earl circles his head back to me.)

bb:

Perhaps Earl doesn’t want to talk about the collages tonight. Maybe it should be just you and me.

Hucka D.:

Oh heck. Alright. (Hucka D. takes Earl back offstage; returns empty handed.)

bb:

That might be better. How long have you had Earl?

Hucka D.:

Oh he’s not mine. A loaner.

bb:

Oh. How long?

Hucka D.:

5 years.

bb:

That’s a long loan (!) Where do you rent him from?

Hucka D.:

Listen, we better get to those collages. So you’re in the middle of Stonethwaite, turning your head round and round, like an owl (smiles).

bb:

Suppose so.

Hucka D.:

Down the road are The Beetles, two in number. Up the road are the other 2 Beetles. They’re in the middle of the road, again. Bad habit. The Volkswagens accompanying each pair makes the white marks in the road. They’re like the GoogleEarth cars or trucks or vans or whatever.

bb:

Guess[ that could be] so.

Hucka D.:

Then up the road, with the 2 Beetles, are the 4 Beetles as a whole plus Martin, their director.

bb:

Producer.

Hucka D.:

Whatever. He’s on the white line. He may even be sitting on the GoogleEarth Volkswagen.

bb:

Could be.

Hucka D.:

In the other direction, down the road again, you again have a martin, a bird this time, peering around the building with the spotty “E” from another recent collage. And those eyes. This “E” emits a spirit with eyes within the tree in the house’s side yard.

bb:

Yeah, that’s freaky.

Hucka D.:

The 2 Martins, up and down[ the road], are both taken from older collages, Greenup 12 and Jasper 08. Those are the 2 set in Stonethwaite before the current Falmouth series. In this 2 part collage, you are basically transposing all the visual elements from those 2 collages and making them one or whole. You have found Center.

bb:

The 2 orange octagon enclosed figures, again in the middle of the road on either side[ of the collage viewer], are [also] one and the same. Two “Freakies” lean against the side of the buildings they’re next to. Each also stand at the entrance to [adjacent] white houses. All these objects are [thus] mirrored.

Hucka D.:

So in comparing Greenup 12 with the scene *down* the street, we have all the elements returning from that collage except the miniature version of Stonethwaite in the road with the letter “D” projecting from it, and also the hexagon objects the boy rides atop of. These are the only 2, however. We have the return of the martin, as stated, the boy encased in the orange octagon and his mate, the John Elway doll figurine — reinforcing that “D is for Denver”, the little girl and the boy on the hexagons in Greenup 12. Differences: The boy is now part or mostly *fox*, jumping over a lazy dog below it or him. These 2 objects are matched[ once more], as they have been in other Falmouth collages. And you also have the 2 Beetles and their Beetle VW appearing now between the martin and the octagon boy — this couldn’t happen in Greenup 12 because the viewing angle is lower and there’s no possible space for them there. The white line down the middle of the road is also not present in Greenup 12, since this is a GoogleEarth thing.

So what is happening? The miniature Stonethwaite becomes the Greenup Gill Stonethwaite Beck spilling from a door on the side of the same house. This is instead from Jasper 08 — we have moved this particular pictorial element over from the other side of the present collage. It’s because the 2 are one thing — this is Stonethwaite Beck (stream), and the tiny town in Greenup 12 is obviously the same. There is no need for redundancy, like you had in an earlier version of the present collage. Or is there?

bb:

I judged there was not.

Hucka D.:

I’ll let the artistic judgment stand, then. And you have your first “Freaky” standing or leaning against side of the same rock building the beck pours out of. The stream is heading for the octagon boy, just like it is in Jasper 08 from the opposite angle. So let’s shift to the opposite side of the collage and compare. This time you have the octagon boy from Jasper 08 returning, along with the 4 Beetles and [George] Martin in the middle of the road, and also the “D” flag hanging from a house. The same house, the same road, I’ll emphasize. Good work! Now, the stream and the door with the strange flower smelling man has shifted to the other side, as stated. There is also no stream on this side, like there is in Jasper 08 — that’s shifted as well. That’s Stonethwaite Beck, to remind. And the blue-purple hummingbird appears nowhere in the 2 collages at all. Was that an oversight, baker b.?

bb:

No, it just didn’t seem to fit.

Hucka D.:

Artistic license again. That’s okay. And then a second Freaky leaning against the house, mirroring the first. A lot of this is about mirrors, baker b. Like the 2 Sherwood Andersons who are actually one Sherwood Anderson.

bb:

I’m not understanding exactly what he’s doing here?

Hucka D.:

He’s associated with Mossman [ on the hill behind the house with the Freaky, D flag, etc.]. And we also have R. Booger Hayes on the side of the same house. He’s subbing for the Big Chimney of the house, which isn’t present. This is the Big Chimney project again, top or ultra-top secret, baker b. Sherwood is a part of that. (pause)

bb:

A star appears over his askew tombstone. This star was on Ringo Starr in a previous Falmouth-Stonethwaite collage. The head of a Ringo Starr drawing also subs for the octagon boy’s head in this side of the new collage. I suppose that’s more mirroring. And what of the turtle cat? It’s car size (!)

Hucka D.:

It is a car. Another subbing. It is the silver car in front of it and the silver car is it[ as well]. Pay attention to details. Their “tires” touch.

bb:

So much to look at in these 2 collages. The star is perhaps doubled by the D flag with the star filled diamond design. Both hang or are suspended, one could put it. The man and woman practically in the center of the overall collage may be the 2 parts or sides of the collage itself, married or joined as in lovers.

Hucka D.:

Yes. They are from Room 237 but also a Falmouth collage that also contains Sherwood, his tombstone, and R. Booger Hayes [again]. No corndogs in this one, though. No Mouse Island. Another oversight?

bb:

Perhaps, Hucka D.

Hucka D.:

Aah.

bb:

The “K” on the octagon seems to create the white line down the middle of the road, Hucka D. Like the “E” on the side of another Stonethwaite house emits a similar “white” spirit — with eyes.

Hucka D.:

Indeed. There are spirits in the village.

(to be continued)

“E is End as well.”

Hucka D.:

We return. E = End, sure.

bb:

The Falls. Dorothy Falls. The Falls in the background. Estatoah, from Georgia.

Hucka D.:

We better get to the *other* “E”. That’s why [we] returned.

bb:

It is in the yard of another Stonethwaite House. Perhaps the most mysterious one. The rock one, also seen in Greenup 12.

bb:

Kind of amazing, Hucka D. The octagon encased boy of both Greenup 12 and Jasper 08 — the only 2 times Stonethwaite directly appears in the Art 10×10 — is standing almost in *the exact same spot*. I didn’t realize that until now. I’ve got my little [GoogleEarth Streetview] orange man in that spot right now. I’ll take pictures of the basic scene of Greenup 12 looking up the road…

… and now, just turning around in my [ his] tracks, looking down the road toward The End. Amazing, again.

Hucka D.:

It is the center of the village[ as you’ve guessed].

bb:

It might be time for another Falmouth style all-around collage (!!)

Hucka D.:

Go.

Embarras…

Hucka D.:

Seathwaite can be a portal maker. To Georgia. To Oz.

bb:

Thanks Hucka D. Rather startling advances in collage making lately as well. But maybe same thing.

Hucka D.:

Yes. Portal to Georgia. (LINK)

bb:

Let’s talk more of *Stonethwaite*. I meant to say Stonethwaite up there.

Hucka D.:

Both.

bb:

The Beetles, variant band, are obviously in Stonethwaite. Repeatedly walking across the road from b and b to b and b.

Hucka D.:

They like to switch around. Each member of Story Room owns a particular inn. And then they rotate. The red one likes the inn and [sic?] the End. Stonethwaite End and Restaurant. You should [could?] go inside.

—–

bb:

Lisa the Vegetarian seeks cartoon McCartney. McCartooney [Cool].

Hucka D.:

She seeks knowledge. See seeks guidance.

bb:

But Nobody’s Home.

Hucka D.:

Haha. Yes, that’s Nobody’s Home. His shadow is left outside by the stream while he enters. McCartney seeks his advice as well, and Harrison. That’s Idaho[ again].

bb:

Portal is opened here. Greenup Gill is present in the center of Stonethwaite. *Again* [like in Jasper 08].

And The Beetles with them, playing in the middle of the road like bad children.

Hucka D.:

You can go so far as to study the direction of the streams. Why would Story Room take over a tiny village in England’s Lake District and switch inns around.

bb:

Because they don’t know how to End things?

Hucka D.:

Things?

bb:

Yeah. Maybe the Falmouth collage series. It might not have an end. Unlike Oblong or Greenup or Hidalgo.

Hucka D.:

Or even Gilatona-Lis.

bb:

Right.

Hucka D.:

Collage 33 demonstrates their town taking over. Their sphere hovers above the village. Is this a spaceship?

bb:

I don’t know. Looks like, in this collage, McCartooney has found Lisa the Vegetarian and is purveying knowledge.

Hucka D.:

Might be someone else.

bb:

Might be. In Collage 29 above, 2 of the Beetles, George and Paul, are crossing the road, like Abbey, and entering one of the inns. They are not playing in the middle of the road any longer — Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?

Hucka D.:

Yes (!)

bb:

That lesson has been absorbed. Tiling.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

In the collage before this (27), the 2 other Beetles are crossing the same road, and — but in the opposite direction. They enter a different building. Another inn, I suppose.

Hucka D.:

Yes.

bb:

But “Forgotten Green” seems to show a 4th Story Room member, a forgotten *green* one. So Story Room has 4 members, just like The Beetles.

Hucka D.:

Just like the Marx Brothers.

bb:

Well…

Hucka D.:

They hid the Green one out in back of one of the inns, with all the colorful, perhaps Second Lifeish trees. And there was a Gray one, devoid of color. He lost his hands. Everyone in that backyard has lost a limb (etc.) or 2. Green is disattaching his head. The worker at The End is missing an arm — behind the bush, but we know from Collage 27 that his arm has been supplanted by one working for Kubrick.

bb:

What of Dorothy losing her balance and falling off the roof of The End [there].

Hucka D.:

Like doppleganger Anne of Green Gables [INSERT PICTURE]. The E manifests and startles her. She loses balance. Falls. Falls behind her[ as well]. Georgia Falls. TILE. E is TILE. 3d TILE.