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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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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!