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Bongos (D) 24 x 36 Spring-Fall 2011
There is a lot of detail in this painting. On the upper left, a ghostly ship. On the upper right, a college football boat has the Duke blue devil, Bevo the Texas Longhorn, and two peanuts, with Buzz from Georgia Tech as the helmsman. In the center, a big hallucination. The sea creatures, in layers from top to bottom, are swimmers, little fishies, seahorses, orcas, bongos, submarines (the Beatles’ Yellow), lobsters, and coelocanths, including a newborn one with yolk sac. The swimmers wearing bongos are rapidly approaching their destiny. Pamela Anderson has become a mermaid and is dancing to the beat of a tuna. Brad Pitt has become a violinist merman. Making cameo appearances are the Little Baby Whales and the Campy Ram’s Yam.
Based on the dream of 11/22/2005 with direct quote therefrom: “No, not the drum things. These are genuine Bongo swim enhancers, made from Flounder”, proclaiming the notion that bongos are really flippers for the hands, made from hollowed-out flounders, that you put on to swim faster.
 Flood with Turnip (C)
Based (loosely) on the flood of Sept 8, 2004, as beautifully photographed and reported in the New York Post. 19x24
Study for Fish with Booties - Ugly Fish
Eats a Bug (B)
This is without question the ghastliest Fish to
appear on canvas since Chardin painted his hideous ray. But it is significant
for being the initial, albeit obscured, vision of the great work to come.
16x20 1999
Purple Yam on Boat 24x28 December 2011
In keeping with my naming convention of an "-ig" suffix for things that hold yams, I had planned to name the boat "DALMOSOSSIG", and there were supposed to be two signs on the left, a triangular one that said "EM" and a rectangular one with the word "KEWGIE". And this should tell you something about the flag. But I decided not to not to put all this stuff in at the last minute, because the painting was more poetic and tranquil without it. The center yam is small enough to just float without an inner tube.
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