I am going to try to sell the painting for Big Gay Bazaar on Saturday, Dec. 5th from 9am-3pm in the Gay Alliance Youth Center. This painting titled “Poverty Child” was done back in 1989. I had this for a long time. Time to get this out to the public for sale. The portrait of the child is from an old magazine and I used Cubist style kind of painting to show forms, shapes, and structures of the face/body.
There is another painting titled “South American Boy” for sale, too, but this blog refused to upload the photo, which I have no idea why, and cannot show it to you unfortunately. This other painting (not shown) is in cubist style painting as well in acrylic painting from an old magazine.
This shows a person’s ear with a smaller cochlear implant behind the ear on the left and the bigger video conference between two people on the right. Cochlear implants will become smaller and sophisticated in the future, which may look like what I painted in the work, and the video technology will become more common, more bigger and fancier, which deaf and hard of hearing people would benefit with American Sign Language (ASL).
This shows an eye with virtual reality glasses and an ear with a smaller cochlear implant technology. Used black powder tempura paint. This shows a virtual reality glasses that a deaf or hard of hearing person could use to read what a hearing person say in the future. There are no texts on the glasses. I will add that soon. The ear has a smaller, simpler cochlear implant device behind it, which could look like it in the future comparing to how cochlear implants look like today.
Here is a close-up of “Future” painting. There is a person and the hand. The person is saying, “Future” in sign language. The challenge was to figure out how to make the geometric shapes and the visual objects more clear and visible. Without the black paint lines, they were all hard to see or muddle-up. I used powder tempura paint, which worked very well.
I have been working on this painting for 2 days and it is not completed yet. I had the silver-wrapped plywood with 3 duct tapes on it left in the storage room. It was used for an exhibit a while ago for something else. This time, I decided to pick up this silver-wrapped plywood piece and re-use it. I am using fluorescent acrylic paints to create images on the piece. There is a profile head of a person with 3 hands. The hands are sign language saying, “Future”. Below the 3 hands and the head are 3 high technologies that will happen down the road: Small, thin virtual reality glasses with words on a clear screen in front of an eye, a smaller, simpler cochlear implant behind an ear, and a bigger videophone with a person on the screen and another person in front of it. These three technologies would encourage deaf/hard of hearing people to communicate with the world in total accessibility and convenience. Above the 3 hands and the head are three texting mobiles, which will become more, more sophisticated for the deaf and hard of hearing. The reason why I am painting these images in fluorescent paint is because I will put a black light above them, attached to the top of the plywood piece. The paint will glow under the light. So, the idea of having a steel look of the piece and fluorescent color paint is to make it appear futuristic and science fiction-like. I will work on the painting to make the images clearer. I will figure out how to add the words on the mobiles and the virtual reality glasses somehow. I may add a LED display scrolling device above the whole piece with a poem for people to read about high technologies that will benefit the deaf and hard of hearing population.
Lobby Display
I just completed a lobby display for “Equus” theatrical production at NTID. There is a blue light shining behind the whole display as if it were an evening w/ moonlight. Had to construct several wood beams to support the work, all attached behind it. “Eguus”, Written by Peter Shaffer, directed by Jerry Argetsinger, will be shown on Nov 5-7 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov 8 at 2:00 p.m. It is $5 students/seniors, $7 others. The production is located in the Robert F. Panara Theatre at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID), 52 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY. Spread the words and hope some of you can come see the show.
I completed a 7 foot tall lobby display for “Equus” theatrical production at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). I created a wood beam frame, then stapled a large white cloth. I took a photo of a student who will act as a main character in the play. I then silhouetted him into total black in PhotoShop, printed it out, xeroxed it into transparent paper, and then projected it onto the cloth with the projector. I used a black marker to outline the figure, then painted the rest with black paint. I cut the plywood into the shape of a horse’s front body and painted it in 3 colors that matches the color of the horse head. The horse head is not my design. It was already stored in the theatre, made by someone else. I attached the head onto the horse front body with screws. I used one vertical wood beam behind the cloth and screwed through the cloth to attach to the horse head and horse body to keep them steady and firm. I then painted the frame around the image in beige-brown and used a sponge to create the black marks around the image. I silhouetted an image of the horse shoe in PhotoShop into black, printed it out, and xeroxed it into transparent paper, and projected it onto the cloth. Did the same process that I did to the human figure. I then added the dates of the show below those two horse shoes. This large piece will be set up in the hallway in front of the Robert F. Panara Theatre at NTID next Monday with a blue light shining behind it.
I just completed this lobby display for “Vignettes of the Deaf Character”. The only thing left is to have a poster of the play put on the right blank rectangle-shaped board attached to the right of the whole display. The director of the play will put images and educational information on the display around the drawings/paintings of the objects I created. This display will be attached to a column out in the hallway in front of The Robert F. Panara Theatre on Friday, October 2nd.
I am currently creating a 6 foot tall lobby display project for NTID’s “Vignettes of A Deaf Character” theatrical production. I cut the top part of the plywood into a dome shape with a jig saw. I then painted the whole plywood gray. I found several images from the Internet, took photos of my Sorenson VP/TV screen, and used some of the printed out images that were given to me by the director of this play. I xeroxed all of them into acetate clear papers, then projected them onto the plywood from the projector. I drew each images with a black marker, then painted acrylic paint around each image in bright colors. The connection among each images and the composition with the bright color make your eyes move when looking at them. This project is not completed yet. I need to add the title and writer’s name at the top of the project. I need to add a rectangle-shaped plywood to the right side of the plywood for putting a poster of the show on it and plywood in a shape of an arrow for pointing to the room that the play will show (Rm 1510).
My poem titled “Boy With Dice” was just published in Rochester, NY. The book is called “Le Mot Juste”. Here is a poem that is in the book for you to read:
“Boy With Dice”
A 12 year old boy.
Smoked cigarettes.
Dice in his hand.
He was ready to play the games.
He was ready to play hooky.
A troublesome boy.
Hung out on the streets.
A rebel in his soul.
He was gonna’ create scandals.
He was gonna’ become a pariah.
Punk Patti Smith sings,
“Go Rimbaud! Go Rimbaud! Go, go, go
Do the Watusi! Do the Watusi!”
Arthur smoked opium.
Arthur drank some absinthe.
A wild boy was he.
Stole a married man.
Wrote poems in the rain.
He mocked the established poets.
He mocked the Victorian society.
A rebel boy was I.
Smoked mary-janes in a small town.
Played punk Patti Smith records.
I was ready to revolt.
I was ready to explore.
Punk rock blasted the tunes.
A punk 12 year old boy.
A punk poet in the rain.
A punk teen in a small town.
Punk, punk, punk has been around
For a long, long, long time!
