crimson flames tied through my ears (teorema 25)

2010
ink, airbrush paint, graphite on Arches HP paper
30 x 22 inches / 76 x 59 cm

Private collection, New York.

after Bob Dylan, Back Pages

The drawing draws forth speech or a naming process..  They acquire names on a provisional basis: the names themselves arise as provisional observations. The titles elide to other artistic works, from Dylan to Richard Hamilton to Ann Carson.  As if the drawing is a search engine.  "Hers is a lush situation"..  How "crimson flames tied through my ears..." And some titles from visitors whose spontaneous comments become the title, or awaken a kind of new drawing-sentence....." explode the holes in your bones...your spot got tooked....what’s the delta on these...WTF happened here....These aphorisms strike me as fragments that develop a partial frame around the drawing, or better yet, an elliptical arc of meaning that doesn't actually close, rather just opens up to more interplay, the theorem stands, a tadasana (standing pose) observing, wit(h)nessing, with you.