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Felt Good to Be in Process

After finishing the floral background, this piece stalled for two months, if not longer. I could not decide where I wanted to go. When I finally figured it out, I dove back in, and it really felt good to be deep in process. Lately, I have really enjoyed working with colored pencils. Unfortunately, I tore the surface of the paper while pulling up some painters tape. I tried to roll with it, but the relationship with the painting was over. Sometimes I am able to incorporate similar issues into a painting, but in this case, it didn’t work. I couldn’t get past tearing the paper, and I wasn’t satisfied after pushing it further. However, I decided to post a capture. I will be returning to this image, me thinks. This piece is 30x22.

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Happy Birthday, Aimee Mann!

The amazing Aimee Mann had a birthday on September 8th. Happy birthday, Aimee Mann! In my 80s coming-of-age novel, Your Silent Face, Stuart Page spends some time in a record shop thinking about Mann and the haunting song, “Coming Up Close.” The song ties into his overall feelings during his coming-of-age experience. If you haven’t read YSF, which is now available in paperback, you can check out the reviews on Amazon or at Kirkus Reviews.

Also available at the Amazon Kindle shop, or at the Apple Book Store.

There is also a companion playlist on Spotify! Link below.

#aimeemann #tiltuesday #80s #newwave #postpunk #GenX #yoursilentface #yoursilentfacethenovel #yoursilentfacetimlane #kirkusreviews

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Poetry

Did you know that I have four slim volumes of poetry available at my website? These are digital products. Two of the collections are free. Build your digital poetry library today with some of my work!

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The Personal Poems 4.00 Pure Pop 0.00 Man on a Wire 0.00 WTF 4.00

New Review of Your Silent Face

Dear Potential Reader,

Which band would you rather be in? Musical Youth or English Beat? Tough call.

XOXO,

Stuart.

***

If you are on the fence about reading or recommending my 80s coming-of-age novel, Your Silent Face—narrated by 80s New Wave and post punk music-lover, Stuart Page—then this review could clarify everything.

And I mean everything.

Okay, not everything.

Dang.

Find the review here: New Review of Your Silent Face.

And many thanks to the reviewer!

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Total 80s, baby.

Adam Ant: Stand & Deliver, the Autobiography

“I remember my illness. I am frightened. I hit myself on the jaw to remind myself.

I want to cry but can’t.

I have a talent. I have a right to portray my art in my way.”

— Adam Ant: Stand & Deliver

I’m about halfway through the Adam Ant autobiography. It’s entertaining, and interesting, and, to be honest, it is comforting. Perhaps I was a very run-of-the-mill young adult after all. The journal entries are insightful. Like young Adam, I should believe that I have talent, have a right to portray my art my way. That’s not the question, really, though, anymore. While I do feel insecure at times, I don’t really doubt that I have talent. That was an insecurity I had more so as a young man. I possessed talent and “became talented” through hard work.

Now, I struggle more with whether making art is worthwhile—a good way to spend my time. I do sometimes still get caught up in comparisons with other artists and feel like my work is inferior to many other artists, but I usually get beyond these moments.

Surprisingly, I had never heard the John Peel sessions. Thank God for Youtube. I am including them below for you.

I recommend the autobiography to fans and anyone who loves early 80s post punk music.

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Mind/Mirror, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mind/Mirror is a Jasper Johns retrospective that is opening this fall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. You just might run into me there, haha.

This morning, I purchased the catalog. I’m excited! I sort of collect writings and catalogs on the work of Jasper Johns.

When it comes to my visual work, I have always considered Johns to be one of my biggest influences. I have always been drawn to his work, his methodology and ideas. And I have appreciated his reluctance to go into very much depth about it all. I am looking forward to receiving the book.

Also, I cherish every opportunity I have ever had to experience and study Jasper Johns’ paintings up close in museums in New York and Chicago and D.C.

Scroll down for a poem I wrote about meeting one’s heroes. I have mixed feelings on the subject.

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Nice to Meet You (the Targets, the Numbers, the Flags)

I don’t paint anything like Jasper Johns

but by mentioning his name I have started you

up a tree with many branches, each branch

representing a certain move

as if this were a game of chess—

a painting by Jasper Johns

like Cicada or Between the Clock and the Bed

the canvas filled with crosshatches

each crosshatch representing an idea

a certain gesture of the mind

as if the mind were a hand that could point

in five different directions

at once.

_

I once beat          a woman

in a chess match          in twelve moves

She lost her queen

It could’ve gone on        a lot longer

but she          resigned.

_

There are people & occupations

the person & the occupation

& I’m working on sorting this

out, separating the person from the

occupation, who someone is from

what they do

as if I were a saint—

as if I’m not interested in what one

does, as if I were not interested

in the fact that

Jasper Johns is an artist, as if it were false

that I’m still interested in the targets

the numbers, the flags.

_

With everything

to lose

& nothing

to gain

my friend

Blake

would only

play chess

against me

if

we were

drunk

_

It’s probably a good thing

that it’s highly unlikely

I will ever meet the artist

Jasper Johns

I don’t think I’d have

that much to say

other than

Hi,

nice to meet you.

I’ve always admired

your work.

Still Happily Here in My Car

Gary Numan’s New Wave hit single, Cars, was released in August of 1979. I am not exaggerating when I say that experiencing this song changed my life. This comment copied from Youtube sums it up pretty well:

“The first time I heard this, the DJ played it three times consecutively. He couldn’t wrap his head around it. It was the fall of 1979 and I just entered my senior year of high school. New Wave rock is amazing.”

Does the narrator of my coming-of-age novel, Your Silent Face, which is set in the mid 80s, go on about Cars? Hmmmm…

Your Silent Face is now available as a paperback. You can order it at Amazon. Reviews welcomed.

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Upstairs at Eric's in Your Silent Face

Upstairs at Eric’s was released in August in 1982. It contains the song, “Winter Kills,” which gets several mentions in Your Silent Face (as does the album). YSF is now available as a paperback and can be ordered at Amazon. If you live in Lansing, you can nab a copy from Dylan Andrew MacNaughton Rogers of the Robin Theater at their new book shop.

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Flight Mode

Do you suffer from anxiety? Do you feel like you are in flight mode at certain times of the day? Do you struggle with transition and uncertainty? Are you struck by a sudden sense of the Absurdity in all things at times? Do you physically and emotionally understand the phrase, “Waiting for the other shoe to drop…”

Over the years, I have made paintings that try to get at these feelings and sensations.

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Original Art for Sale Your Silent Face Available Now

Painting from 2016 BLM Series Now on Sale

Hello! I have added a Feature link to the main navigation page, up at the top with the other main links.

The painting which being featured is 50% off, plus shipping, and I will consider a payment plan. It is from the BLM series. It is mixed media on canvas, 35”x35”. I love this painting, but I don’t have adequate storage for it anymore.

Contact me at inlovewithplaid@comcast.net if you have questions.

Use the link below to jump to the Feature for more information.

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