Tim Lane's Blog, page 22
February 4, 2022
In Which the Artist Talks Depeche Mode, Politics, Deep Virtual, Deep Space, James Webb, Quantum Physics and Fast Colors
The new work is becoming a series that I am calling The Reality Project, and a lyric from Depeche Mode’s song, “Master and Servant,” from Some Great Reward, 1984, captures the theme.
Has reality always been a dangerous game?
As we continue to pursue just what exactly reality is, we are traveling inward just as far as outward. Deep Virtual versus deep space. Imagination and the James Webb Space Telescope. A coup is a protest is a birthday party. Attempting to overthrow the government is bowling night. (Filmmakers continue to explore themes of altered time, manipulating reality, undiscovered psionic powers and alternate parallel worlds collliding—think Inception, Looper, Strange Matter and Fast Color.)
And what of time? Going backwards and forwards all the time and all time always with us like a bubble. And the multiverse? Events playing out slightly different ad infinitum. Recounts, sweet dreams, new stars. At some point all time lines, all reverse-births, all real and unreal energy has to exit or re-enter the engine—has to project.
How to name it, find it, imagine it, understand it, observe it? Science fiction writers have always shown us that whatever we can imagine is a possibility, which is both awesome and frightening.
There’s a new game we like to play, you see— "Master and Servant," Depeche Mode (M. L. Gore)
A game with added reality
Master and Servant (Infra Intra Inter Version), 2022
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New Work 2022: The Realities Project
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February 3, 2022
A Feeling Created by War
#TBT featuring four paintings made between 2006-2007 which were born out of a feeling created by the War in Iraq. They seem as relevant today as they did then. These paintings are from the Lamb Series. Almost all of these paintings have found homes, although a couple were destroyed.
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Though I Walk in the Valley of Darkness, 2006, 26”x19”
Though I Laugh Out Loud in the Valley of Darkness, 2006, 30”x22”
Bird, Lamb, Bears (Laugh Out Loud), 2007, 24”x24”
In the Valley (Laughing Out Loud), 2007, 24”x24”
The Lamb Series art
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January 30, 2022
I Wanna Shoot the Whole Day Down
Who likes Monday? I mean yeah they can be fine once they arrive, but it’s that whole Sunday late-afternoon anticipation that gets to a lot of us. I guess The Boomtown Rats just flat out didn’t like them. Anyway, I find the best way to neutralize those late Sunday, pre-Monday blues-slash-dread is through music. I like to play a lot of music on many Sundays. Of course, I play a lot of music just about every day. Which leads to letting you know that I have 122 public playlists on Spotify. There’s 80s New Wave and alternative post punk, classical, jazz, New Age and mixes of artists from the 2000s. Once you’ve found my profile, you’ve found my playlists. I also have links to some of my featured playlists right here at yoursilentface.com.
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Your Silent Face: The Playlist
Get The Balance Ri-i-ght plus Red Skies at Night
The Ultra 80s Playlists [image error]
January 28, 2022
Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before
A couple of my buddies and I were sort of chuckling the other day around lunch time about Morrissey’s recent open letter to Johnny Marr. Too funny. Morrissey, man. C’mon. Whatever. Next thing that happens, Jeff texts, “Top five Smiths songs?” The endorphins surge. Right away, Bill and I can agree upon “This Charming Man.” That’s a no-brainer. Jeff’s short list looks similar to mine, including later songs “There Is a Light” and “Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before.” Naturally, I listen to The Smiths for the rest of the afternoon while working from home, the beginnings of a Smiths top ten list forming in the back of my mind. I tend to go on Smith jags, anyway. Bill gives it a day before sharing a Spotify playlist—Mix: The Smiths. He reveals that he favors twenty-song playlists, so I try to follow suit, but mine has to include two bonus tracks.
I tried like hell to cut two songs but couldn’t do it.
Thus, after staying up way too late, I’ll be texting Jeff and Bill the following Spotify playlist in the morning: Mix: The Smiths (Red Meat Version) *Two Bonus Tracks.
(Note: In an effort to preserve some of the mixtapes I made and received back in the day, I recently bought a Walkman-like device that converts cassette tapes to mp3 files. Don’t waste your money.)
You can check out my Smiths playlist below.
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Paintings Make a Wall
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More works have gone into the bedroom salon-style hung personal art collection. The additions include two Aaron Curtners and a painting by an artist from D.C. She was selling work in front of Afterwords one night #dupontcircle.
This corner of the bedroom includes a very early Travis Bruce Black and two works from my Selfie Series.
The Selfie Series art
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January 25, 2022
Sweet Dreams (Are Made in These): a New Painting
I do not work with red very often. Pinks, peach, purples, lilac but not much red. For some reason I needed to see Pyrrole Red. I don’t often do physical color studies before painting either, but I took a look at a good handful of combinations and glazes before starting this one.
I hope you enjoy where this new series is going. I’m still preoccupied with the same thoughts and ideas that were fueling The Sublime series. I think that I am just articulating them in a slightly different way now.
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Sweet Dreams (Are Made in These), in harsh light.
Sweet Dreams (Are Made in These), in soft light.
Pyrrole Red liquid acrylic/Green Gold
Pyrrole Red gouache/Green Gold
Naphthol Red Light/Green Gold
Pyrrole Red liquid acrylic/Primary Yellow
Pyrrole Red gouache/Primary Yellow
Naphthol Red Light/Primary Yellow
January 22, 2022
Steve Reich's "Come Out" and the Harlem Six
On Saturday, January 22nd, 2022, I left the house around eleven in the morning to take some books to Robin Books. I had been listening to American composer Steve Reich on Spotify, Works 1965-1995. When I got home about an hour later, I discovered that the music was still playing in the kitchen on the Google speakers. But I didn’t recognize the piece—I wasn’t even sure if it was still Steve Reich. It turns out that it was one of Reich’s earliest tape compositions, Come Out. I was intrigued so I googled it and read a Pitchfork article about it while I replayed the music. I had no idea this moment was to become a powerful educational minute about a horrible episode in American History perpetrated upon a group of young black men who became known as the Harlem Six. As I read the Pitchfork article, written in 2016 by Andy Beta—”Blood and Echoes: The Story of Come Out, Steve Reich’s Civil Rights Era Masterpiece“—I was riveted. I felt some powerful emotions in that moment of reading the article and listening to Come Out for the second time. Had I learned about the Harlem Six? Not really. Had I heard of the Harlem Six? Yes. Did I have a basic understanding of the police brutality enacted upon the young black men? Vague details from secondary news stories and from conversations. Had I heard of Wallace Baker and Daniel Hamm and what became known as The Little Fruit Stand Riot? No. Not at all. I leave below a link to Steve Reich’s Come Out. Andy Beta’s article in Pitchfork can be found here. It should be read. Read it while you listen to Come Out. I dare say a reading of the article combined with a listening of the composition will cement the details of this terrible episode of our nation’s past in your mind and soul. Injustice and horrific acts do not need to be depicted in art before they become memorable, though. But art can help make it resonate forever. So others can learn and atrocities are not forgotten. I didn’t know, but now I know. Pitchfork article: ”Blood and Echoes: The Story of Come Out, Steve Reich’s Civil Rights Era Masterpiece,” written in 2016 by Andy Beta.
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Your Silent Face is an 80s coming-of-age novel set in Flint, Michigan, that explores themes of class, family, violence, fitting in, fractured Native American identity and the transition to adulthood. The main character is a first gen college student who is obsessed with 80s New Wave and post punk music and struggles to decide if he should return to school after summer vacation or settle back into the East Side of Flint.
“The reader will likely be reminded of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity or possibly Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused….” KIRKUS REVIEWS.
You can find the full review here. Other reviews can be found on Amazon here.
What lies ahead that doesn’t suck? Summer break forces Stuart Page to return home and wrestle with his fraying ties to the East Side of Flint, his memory an archive of cassettes he would like to erase. His freshman year of college was lame. More early Cure than Spandau Ballet, he might be overheard saying. More Gary Numan than Falco.— Your Silent Face back cover blurb
Flustered by visits from a stoic viking, fueled by an endless supply of beer, Stu picks apart an obsession with the lead singer of Joy Division and chugs the sour dregs of insecurity as he drunkenly veers through Flint’s blue collar fight culture, summer hook ups, the aftereffects of Old School Catholicism and Reaganomics in Your Silent Face.
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January 17, 2022
Where the Streets Have No Names, 2022: A New Painting
While I post this new painting, my son is at the Whitney working his way to the Jasper Johns retrospective. I am very happy for him, and I am very happy that a member of the family is actually getting to this exhibition. Whenever anybody asks, “Whose your favorite painter?” I usually answer, “Jasper Johns.” His work has had a profound influence upon my work—there’s no denying it. The hope, of course, is that by this stage of the game, you cannot really see any or many of the influences in my work, right?
I have to say that I really enjoyed making this new piece.
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January 16, 2022
Realities Project, 2022: A New Painting
This is the second painting of what could be the beginning of a new series. The first painting was small, almost a study or an exercise. This one is bigger, back to 30”x22”. I do not have a whole lot to say about this shift at the moment—it has been mostly intuitive.
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Realities Project, 2022
acrylic, spray paint, pencil & crayon on paper
30”x22”
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