What I Did Today Challenge: 8/28/2012

Dick Van der Wurst on August 30, 2012

2012 Huevos Rancheros Quinceañera Celebration Silent Art Auction

Not enough. Never enough.

I did print out submission forms for the 2012 Huevos Rancheros Quinceañera Celebration Silent Art Auction and started piecing together some ideas.

First thought was that a new piece would be something in the thread of my recently begun Existential Dinner Party series…with eggs of course. “Deviled Eggs and Despair?

But then I notices something long forgotten in my idea file…”A Breakfast of Eggs and Absinthe”.

As usual, I don’t remember where the hell this came from. That’s why I put it in my idea box. I guess I should have put something in my Sketchpad. Thankfully we have google to remind me that eggs and absinthe is a great(?) morning after, hair of the dog type drink. Now I’m already thinking of using eggs in a vintage graphic sign type design on old fence pickets so if I add absinthe to the mix, I should start looking at all those wonderful Victorian absinthe lithograph posters.

So posters. Looking at posters. Need to work breakfast in there…posters…breakfast…absinthe…breakfast…Breakfast at Tiffany’s! I’m going to work Katherine Hepburn (growl!) with a chicken into this bitch…with her looking at absinthe getting poured over a cracked egg in a spoon into an absinthe glass. That’s the plan for now anyway.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

And that is what I did today to advance my art career.

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Relativist Art Ideas for The Big Existential Dinner Party

Dick Van der Wurst on August 30, 2012

We’ve all heard about combining food with other pleasurable sensory experiences like cheese and art shows, prime rib and strippers, sex and pastrami, so why not combine delicious food with a debilitating existential crisis? Can’t recall how or why this pairing came up in an electronic conversation but it did. I’ve had “acrimony and cheese” in my idea box for a while so maybe it just took seed.

The menu so far includes:

  • acrimony and cheese
  • cinnabons and self analysis
  • deviled eggs and despair
  • ennui and baked brie
  • french fried fear of death
  • judgement and jellied eggs
  • night terrors and tapas
  • paralyzing fear and fresh fruit
  • regret au gratin
  • self doubt and sauerkraut
  • spiritual death and duck sauce
  • singularity and cinnamon sticks

Pieces in progress

“Ennui a Jus” (photoshop mock up)

The point is just about associations word play and emotional responses through the juxtaposition of unrelated subjects. I once heard you don’t stop with one great idea, you take two or more good ideas and somehow bring them together. I’m not sure “sauerkraut” constitutes a “good idea” but it certainly evokes associations to smell and taste and unique cultural influences.

“Self Doubt and Sauerkraut” (photoshop mock up)

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