diptych # 35 ( picture window # 50 / single women # 26) ~ the beat goes on

picture window / single women ~ Chelsea, NYC / Hoboken, NJ • click to embiggenSometimes some projects just seem to slide on by without much attention. I really don't know whether that's because: a) I have too many projects going on, b) I can't bring myself to focus on just one body of work, c) the world at large just offers up to many diverse picturing referents, or, d) fear of commitment.

Whatever the cause - and I suspect that it's an unholy combination of all of the above multiple choice answers - while I was in NYC and environs, I did manage to add to 2 of my longstanding bodies of work, picture windows and single women.

picture windows ~ this is a quiz - no right answers, no wrong answers. there are only answers

Hotel window ~ Cherry Hill, NJ • click to embiggen
Hotel window ~ Binghamton, NY • click to embiggen
Bedroom window ~ Brooklyn, NY • click to embiggen
Loft building window ~ Montreal, CA • click to embiggen
Hotel window ~ Lake Placid, NY • click to embiggenPLEASE RESPOND There is a very specific reason for this quiz which will be revealed in an entry on Monday or Tuesday next.

I am allowing some time before the explanatory entry in order to allow for as many answers as possible because, IMO, the more answers there are, the more interesting and revelatory my explanatory entry can be. PLEASE RESPOND

And rest assured, no one will be graded on their answers because there are no right or wrong answers, there are only answers. In fact, it could be honestly written that every answer will be a right answer. PLEASE RESPOND

In order for you to answer, there must be a question. So, without further ado ...

What do see, taken as a group, in these pictures beyond their referent of visual record?

In others words, what do you "see" beyond the pictured subject? Or, what do you think these pictures are about, re: the inferred or the implied? PLEASE RESPOND

FYI, I "see" nothing beyond the visual is a very acceptable answer. On the other hand, Who gives shit? or Who cares? is not, simply because everyone should already know the answer to those questions - I do.

BTW, did I mention, PLEASE RESPOND?

picture windows # 49 ~ sailboat

Sailboat ~ Blue Mt. Lake, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen

picture windows # 48 ~ flowers

Flowers / Saturday morning ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenTime to spend some time in Purgatory, aka: the South Jersey Shore, where I am sure it will be hot as Hell.

It's 8:45PM and I'm about an hour away from starting my midnight run. I'll hit north Jersey about 2AM and there will be almost no one on the road. From there it will be, as they used to say, clean and green all the way to Stone Harbor.

I'm certain I'll make a few pictures and I'll share them and few thoughts about the future of The Landscapist with you upon my return. That said written, I will be posting during my visit to the shore.

picture windows # 47 ~ raining

Exit / rain ~ Lake Placid, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggen

picture windows / looking out ~ together at last

All pictures ~ • click to embiggenThere is little more satisfying in the art and craft of picturing making than when a thematic body of work comes together as a cohesive entity. Granted, selling an office suite worth of my pictures ranks right up there, but, when you come right down to it, successful selling is most often predicated upon portfolio presentations - a kind of horse-before-the-cart thing.

So, as mentioned previously, one of my somewhat pressing objectives is to organize and edit my various bodies of work - currently numbering 9 very different individual bodies of work - into individual portfolios. The point of that exercise is to get those portfolios out to a number of galleries with the hope of having a few exhibits of my work. And, that objective met, to make some sales.

Update on Monday, July 2, 2012 at 02:48PM by gravitas et nugalis

Featured Comment: Sven W (no link provided) wrote/asked: "I note the front and back cover include a person in the image, whereas the images within the book don't?"

my response: First let me express my thanks for all the comments. As always, they are greatly appreciated, especially so when they are in response to a body of my work.

Sven - as you have observed, the covers do have a person visible whereas the remainder of the pictures in the collection do not. Obviously, that was an intentional ploy on my part.

The purpose of that ploy was to introduce to viewers of the balance of the work the idea of looking out of a window. However, rather than seeing a person looking, I want the viewer of the pictures to be keenly aware that he/she is the observer, not only of the glimpse of the scene outside the window but also of the pictures, in their entirety, and the prints, as objects in and of themselves.

picture window # 46 ~ more (non-toilet) Spring light

A picture window ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenWhen asked by an interviewer, “How do you make great art”, Robert Mapplethorpe stated, “If I knew I’d stop.”

picture windows # 44-45 ~ not forgotten

Waiting room ~ Au Sable Forks, NY - in the Adirondack Park • click to embiggenGalerie Richard ~ Chelsea / NYC, NY • click to embiggenIt's been almost 7 months since I last turned my attention to making a picture windows picture.