My mind sees things in strange ways. I constantly have to make mental notes on paintings that need to be removed from my brain and onto canvas.
Even though being a musician is in my past, I realize that music is still a huge part of me, an integral part of my being.
It still inspires much of my art and gives me an outlet for the seemingly schizophrenic outpourings of images I get.
At the moment the project being worked upon is one that had been bouncing around inside my brain for nearly a year, waiting to escape into the world. It is sitting at my easel behind me as I type, waiting for me to finish up the twisted details.
It is musically related, as it is something that I wanted to do for a young bunch of musicians, The Clamps. It will probably offend many, but sometimes that is how art is.
In order to cope with the mundane parts of my life, I need a good assault my senses, and I need it repeated as necessary.
And, for a true assault on all of the senses, GWAR is the band that can do the job. At the House of Blues in San Diego, these metal masters ripped out their gleefully perverse show.
For me a GWAR performance is a true catharsis of being.
By the end of the show, the floor of the club was covered in pools of blood red liquid, looking more like a massive slaughterhouse than a music venue. As the audience dispersed past me, happily drenched in GWAR secret sauce, the surrealistic rapture was complete.
I have found that the men behind GWAR take the time to talk to their fans, even while they are on a grueling concert tour.
The three teens that I took to the show have to be some of their biggest fans.
That two of the three teens are in the band, The Clamps and that the collective three are in a fledgling grindcore band, Premenstrual Excrement, makes it even better. I can see from the looks on their faces that there is fire in their creative brains and I know that the future is full of wonderful things.
As for me, I get back my sense of balance toward the lightness and darkness of art, and a mind overflowing with more fun and disturbing images.
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