Pink Fog

     Good day! This is post numero uno on my new art blog presence. I will update it as much as possible to keep it interesting. Please feel free to contact me, leave comments and all of that stuff. I'm pretty needy so it helps to know that people are listening, watching and caring. I'm not very good at compartmentalizing or being cool or professional so a lot of my life will creep in here too. So, I hope that's ok.
   
     I randomly selected this first picture just to navigate how to add photos, but really it's probably a good place to start. This is one of the crystal clouds that adorned the wall at an art opening I had this Friday at The Push Gallery in Asheville NC. The show was called Pink Fog. This name was meant to convey the state of my head the last few months while putting this show together. Around the same time at the end of last year, I got a dui, my girlfriend of 3 years broke up with me and I got physically addicted to benzos. The following months were me pulling myself up from this mess that I definitely got myself into. I'm not even in the clear yet, but the show was last Friday and definitely marked a milestone for this era of my life.
   
     The individual pieces of this show were purged mostly from sketch books and pictures of friends and loved ones. The organic crystalline geometry of the clouds that tied each piece to one another represent the slow healing of a damaged heart and brain, tiny building blocks of progress. The animals in the show were inspired by the Hertzog Doc, Cave of Forgotten Dreams. They started me on this path that culminated in what is basically my version of a cave painting. The main difference here is that my paintings were done on paper to be intentionally impermanent.

I turned 37 a few months ago, I quit drinking in November. What I have now is Art and a precious little bit of time. I aim to treat it with a little more respect than I have in the past. In other words, I'm getting pretty serious about this shit. So let me know what you think.

Thanks.

Andy