Boardwalk Bar part 14

My car is working again, so I was up to the Studio this morning.  The first thing I did was check out the wall where my work had been, and it was not there, as expected.  In fact, none of the work that had been up in that part of the lobby was up.  There was art up on the wall in the other half of the lobby, what looked like kid's art.  I continued to my space downstairs.  In that space I found Molly's three works, and two of mine.  Where was the third?  Made a stop by the office to see if it was there.  Jeanne had just stepped out I was told, but my missing third work might be in the back.  Actually I found it on a table in the side room.  I took it and headed for my space.

I cleared my table, got out the current block, and got to work.  I had spent a few minutes at home looking at my photo that included the ceiling of the Headliner bar, and took some quick notes of what I saw.  I brought those notes with me today, so I took that out and set it aside.  My plan was to finish the left side of the image.  First I designated and cut two little pieces out between the first and second band member, something I had noticed in my photo from last time that needed to be done.  Next I moved up top and took out all that needed to be removed from the ceiling, such as the shadow of the palm tree and some of the supports holding up the roof.  I also did a few thin cuts near the overhead tower, just clarify what was there a little more.  This all done, it was still early, so I moved over and did the right side ceiling- the tree, the supports, etc.  That took me up to about noon, and I decided to halt things there.  I cleaned up, documented today's work, and put the returned framed prints up on top of my table.   Results of today's work can be seen below:

For music today I went to my storage box one more time and one last home burned disc, called ZOCK!--AAAY!.  What is that?  It's a home burned copy of a mix tape, complete with cartoony cover, from Doug Huston.  Doug was a visiting artist, a printmaker from Chicago Art Institute, there in Carbondale as part of a four session joint State of Illinois-State of Jalisco, Mexico print collaborative project.  One of the sessions took place in Carbondale, with artists from all locations.  (that session also included Audrey Niffenegger, then a printmaker from Chicago, later a novelist with a best seller that was turned into an HBO miniseries)  On a later trip to Chicago, Joel Feldman (our printmaker in Carbondale) brought back tapes Doug had made for all the grad students.  Mine was this ZOCK thing.  It's an odd mix of music, a combination of novelty songs, classic r&b, country, pop songs that sound like they are from the 40's, and lots of western stuff.  Once my NJ printmaker (who set me up with Carbondale) Bob Sennhauser, put down (what I think was) Doug Huston, complaining of a print artist in Chicago who would rather be a dj than an artist.  Maybe so, but what I think he really wanted to be was a cowboy, based on the high number of western theme songs on this tape, plus his later novel, "VAST" which was made entirely from excerpts (all footnoted) from western pulp novels. Whatever his outside interest were, at that session Doug was there to work as an artist, and he turned out a number of multiscreen prints, some of which are in my personal collection.  (I later adapted his screen printing registration system to woodcut for my own multiple block prints)  Later Doug sent me another tape, with two complete albums, one from Reverend Horton Heat on one side (used for the tape cover as well, along with the words "this is not for Sunday" and Shadowy Men from a Shadowy Planet on the other side.  No album titles or song listings, but I later learned the former was "The Full Custom Gospel Sounds of the Reverend Horton Heat".  I know because I later bought the official album from the label, and a copy of it was in the Studio.   This disc I listened to today was pretty strange, but as always, good music to make art to.  Doug may have been on to something.