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Okay, this has been KILLING me. My brother gave me permission to post this picture. Remember when I said he was in Belgium a few months ago, working on a super-secret project? Here's who he was working with.
That's John, STING, and Franco Dragone.
Yeah, I was all HOLY CRAP NO WAY! John e-mailed it to me with only the words "...pick out your brother in this picture." He's funny like that.
As a child of the 80's, I find it incredibly wrong that my brother looks better than Sting. It hurts me, some place deep inside where Duran Duran still rules my internal airwaves and the MTV rocket takes off over and over for eternity, and I look pretty in pink.
*bemused sigh*
Here is a link to my brother's website. Funny thing #1: My brother tends to draw his girlfriends/wives/significant others as "characters" and so he's gone through distinctive phases that I call his "Jesse period" or his "Janine period". He's in a Kari period right now...that girl on the home page looks a lot like his current squeeze (she's awful cute). 'Cept, she doesn't have pink hair. Or stripes. Still though, you can chart his social life through his art. I wonder if he knows he does that? :-)
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Franco Dragone. He's a fascinating guy. I haven't met him personally, but John's told me some great stories. I made this mask for him (a gift that John commissioned) last year, and (this is why I've been thinking about John and Franco and stuff) I'm making a copy of it to show to the director of Lahaina Gallery in San Francisco next week. My mom in law did the most amazing thing by getting me this interview, and I'm a tad (okay, a LOT) nervous about it. Check out the link anyway and tell me what you think. I think this place could really carry my work because it has 3-d sculpture as well as traditional wall art, and a really funky eclectic style. We'll see, we'll see. *crossing fingers*
I'm working on a second "wow" mask...something in the same vein as the Dragone mask but ...impossible to describe, I'll just have to show you all when it's done. Celestial theme (sun and moon) but heavily influenced by Art Nouveau and Japanese woodcuts. See? Hard to describe.
Busy busy. My hands ache! Totally blue-skying right now, but wouldn't it be incredibly awesome if I actually "made it"? I've been so close SO many times...I can taste it.
That's John, STING, and Franco Dragone.
Yeah, I was all HOLY CRAP NO WAY! John e-mailed it to me with only the words "...pick out your brother in this picture." He's funny like that.
As a child of the 80's, I find it incredibly wrong that my brother looks better than Sting. It hurts me, some place deep inside where Duran Duran still rules my internal airwaves and the MTV rocket takes off over and over for eternity, and I look pretty in pink.
*bemused sigh*
Here is a link to my brother's website. Funny thing #1: My brother tends to draw his girlfriends/wives/significant others as "characters" and so he's gone through distinctive phases that I call his "Jesse period" or his "Janine period". He's in a Kari period right now...that girl on the home page looks a lot like his current squeeze (she's awful cute). 'Cept, she doesn't have pink hair. Or stripes. Still though, you can chart his social life through his art. I wonder if he knows he does that? :-)
Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Franco Dragone. He's a fascinating guy. I haven't met him personally, but John's told me some great stories. I made this mask for him (a gift that John commissioned) last year, and (this is why I've been thinking about John and Franco and stuff) I'm making a copy of it to show to the director of Lahaina Gallery in San Francisco next week. My mom in law did the most amazing thing by getting me this interview, and I'm a tad (okay, a LOT) nervous about it. Check out the link anyway and tell me what you think. I think this place could really carry my work because it has 3-d sculpture as well as traditional wall art, and a really funky eclectic style. We'll see, we'll see. *crossing fingers*
I'm working on a second "wow" mask...something in the same vein as the Dragone mask but ...impossible to describe, I'll just have to show you all when it's done. Celestial theme (sun and moon) but heavily influenced by Art Nouveau and Japanese woodcuts. See? Hard to describe.
Busy busy. My hands ache! Totally blue-skying right now, but wouldn't it be incredibly awesome if I actually "made it"? I've been so close SO many times...I can taste it.
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Sting looks like a dirty old bum in that picture, what a gawdawful shirt. (Your brother does look way better, though I think Sting was goodlooking when he was young...though I wasn't around to remember that, I don't think...I don't actually know how old he is but he looks like my mom's age.)
The other guy, Franco, looks a lot like my best's heavy-set large-headed (literally, his head is HUGE) Greek father. Dragone is a cool last name though...he's got that :)
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Sting's shirt does look like someone chewed on it (I even commented on it myself), but John assured me that it was a funky designer shirt that probably costs more than my car.
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You'd have to be about twenty and as handsome and ripped as the devil to get away with it as a guy. Imo. :)
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I think I'd feel *more* pressure if I was respected within my field...more pressure to live up to expectations. I can see the creative legacy thing...but for me, fame even within a community rather than the whole world is a thing to run away from at top speed so I'm a little weird about what I'd consider 'making it', I guess.
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Super cool stuff! I think your work would easily fit in at that gallery. It looks like they've got a little of everything in there! The mask you did for Dragone is GORGEOUS, and I can't wait to see the new one.
I know what you mean about "making it", but you are really doing amazing well already. To be able to make a living doing your art is a HUGE achievement. But more recognition never hurts! :D
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I think Lahaina will be a good fit. I REALLY want my work in there...I want it so much I'm afraid I want it TOO much and I'll be crushed if they say "Eh...not so much". It's SO hard getting galleries to take me seriously when they hear that my medium is leather...it's generally considered a "craft". I've actually been rejected from shows when I've been honest about my materials...and then the following year been enthusiastically accepted to the SAME show using the SAME slides...but just changing my category to "fiber art" or "sculpture" rather than "leather". S'funny and maddening at the same time.
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*long pause*
*fapfapfapfapfapfap*
THE SECRET'S OUT! Holy crap, I still think the work he's doing with them is A-MAZING. I can't believe you had to keep it in for so long X3
Also a huge Oh My God to getting that interview at the gallery, that is incredible. When is it? Nervous or not, I think your work will blow them away and it looks like it would fit in as they have a very diverse range of work that would work with you SO well. *crosses fingers* Good luck good luck to you!
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Haha...I KNOW! It. Was. KILLING. Me. :-)
Re: The Lahaina Gallery thing...I'm afraid to get TOO excited. You just never know, and I can not tell you how many times I've ~almost~ had a big break , just to get the rug yanked out from under me. A lesser person would have just given up and started making utilitarian craft crap by now...but I refuse to believe that this medium (leather sculpture) can't be taken seriously. *shrug* Guess we'll see!
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But I'm totally with you on never giving it up for broke because come on, if someone can love elephant-dung-Mary painting, then there's a chance for everything, everywhere. But seriously, your work works on so many levels (2-D/3-D, functional/decorative) and someone's bound to recognize that. This...THIS will be the big break!
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Talk to you when you get back. *hug*
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