Alan Johansson

But other than that, he’s okay.

Change.

I’v been watching this Coke can since July or August.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to [our] continual falling in love with beauty, and [our] desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with [us] and enrich [our] common life.

That tight turning circle was a specifically sought design feature with an ulterior motive. Morris Markin lobbied for a rule in NYC that for a cab to carry a taxi medallion, it had to have a specific minimum amount of legroom and luggage room, and still be able to do a U in a specific street.

A8 Checker in the foreground right, Dad’s “Pipedream,” a two-door sedan with ladder frame, unit body, AND stressed skin construction, all four wheels powered by a Studebaker flathead six through a BW T84 and Dana 18 transfer case on the left, already partially cut into a truck.

Or you ARE the joke.

I Am Only an Egg, II
Graphite on bristol board
9 January 2025

@iowannie.bsky.social You can’t be messaged, so I’ll just put this here.

Friend an an American LaFrance roadster at Hershey in the mid-’70s.

At least we’re safe from it ever becoming a Hallmark movie.

Graphite #7
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
3 Jan 2025
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper painted with methanol, acetone, and MEK, with no appreciable effect. Finally brushed with graphite suspended in methanol.

Graphite #7.2
“Archival Disaster”
5x7”
Pure graphite powder worked into bristol board with a toothbrush, then overlaid with rice paper adhered with Super 77. Rice paper surface then painted with acetone, MEK, and methanol, without appreciable result. Finally painted w/graphite suspended in methanol.

Our tuxedo, trying hard to convince us that she’s a black cat.

@skpeterson.bsky.social Yay!

It may not be finished. I may see what happens with MEK or acetone painted on the rice paper.
Or draw.
Or collage.

Graphite #6
5x7”
Pure graphite pressed and worked into bristol board with brayer, baren, cheap 1/4” brush. I dumped the excess graphite from a previous drawing onto butcher paper, and then put the bristol board face down in the resulting pile and pressed and rolled, then turned it over to brush it.

Graphite #5
5x7”
Pure graphite powder applied to bristol board with fingertips (no tools). Script side: Pilot G2 0.38 on rice paper, mounted with Scotch Super 77 spray adhesive.

I meet cool, kind people in the wild!

Back to the Drawing Board, Day 2
Graphite #3, “I am only an egg.”
pure graphite powder on Crescent marker, applied with toothbrush spatter through 3.75” 55° ellipse template and rubbed with latex-gloved thumb within bone folder-debossed square. 25¢ yardsale frame.

I’m not fond of New Year’s resolutions, but it happens that some reforms seem to be aligned with the calendar. My current theme is “Back to the Drawing Board.” Still trying to find my artist. The approach now is to play with something I haven’t done, since I seem unable to do the things I once did.

Fun on Christmas

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

I don’t think they will find avoiding libraries a great sacrifice.

I am disturbed that the country is about to be run by a white man born and raised in South Africa whose formative years were in the heat of the fall of apartheid, and whose emigration took place just before its end. With a mind formed by that, and now affected by unimaginable wealth…

From “God’s Fields”:
“When I learned that Moravians had accepted and practiced racist subjugation, I asked myself, "How did people as good as the Brethren make peace with slavery and racist segregation? How do any of us become involved in practices at odds with their values?”

Home at night.