| The
title comes from the second Frank Zappa album, an enimatic little
gem from "Absolutely Free," from 1967. The album is famous
for the song, "Plastic People," the defacto anthem of
the Chezch underground. After the collapse of the Soviet Union,
Valclev Havel named Zappa an honorary ambassador as a tribute. So
there's your history lesson for today.
This
painting has its roots in a series of charcoal sketchings I had
lying around, waiting to be used. The vegetable motif evolved as
I was adding the watercolors; much of my abstract line drawing has
an organic feel, so it was easy to play the idea to the logical
conclusion. The charcoal sticks I were using at the time were very
messy, which helped me achieve that worn, weathered look I was going
for. I don't do messy very well. |
