Commune for Rent

Features include:

-rooftop graden growing corn, peas, cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic and turnips.

-greenhouse

-compost heap and worm bin

-tilapia tank fed and aerated by organic garden runoff. Fish caught as needed for food using worms as bait.

-two bathrooms, nowhere to bathe, maybe stand in the garden as it rains.

-14 bedrooms, one of which is reserved for the garden manager

-continuous market selling the crops grown in the rooftop garden

-telescope

-barrel of beer

-art gallery featuring the art of Mike McFalls, Clint Fulkerson, Kate Beck, Aaron T. Stephan, Jasper Johns, and a white porcelain dog from the Jeff Koons studio.

-art in common areas by Vincent vanGogh, Winslow Homer, Milton Avery, Francis Bacon, Clint Fulkerson, Frank Stella, Christopher Keister, and Sol Lewitt.

-triangular paned dome window

-3 wood fired stoves (still looking for a reliable wood supplier)

-amazing cookware including a 5 quart le creuset saucepan

-common dining room seats 15

-structure well-supported by rock pile

Entry to the commune is a $1000 down payment, then is free as long is you contribute labor to sustain the commune. To be considered for this opportunity, you must meet our strict criteria for admission (which we keep to ourselves). So, in four sentences or less, tell us how you would contribute to this community. We are particularly interested in people with practical skills of gardening, carpentry, plumbing, and masonry, but we could also use all around creatives, DIY makers and users of various steampunk contraptions, and engineers, scientists, and theorists (people smarter than us) who could debunk all this stuff as foundation-less, or make the whole idea better.

Drawing Waste

eraser bits, erasers, pencil leads that broke off in the sharpener

new moon

This is dried up ink wash in a bowl.

drift

Collages

So I've begun taking photos of objects that are easily accessible to me and my plan is to turn them into fantastic scale-free collages. This is one of my side projects that apart from the actual erasing of backgrounds isn't too time consuming. In the future I may turn them into Monty Python-ish animations, but the goal at this point is to amass a pile of clip-art objects from my own life and set up interesting impossibilities that aren't just rivers flowing inside churches.

some moons I collected on my travels

I'm particular to moons plus or minus 160 miles in diameter compared to Earth's moon (2000-2320 mi)

can of pens with coaster and paper edge, in the style of a fancy dessert

Small Paintings

Yesterday morning and this morning I got up early and started painting. I didn't have a plan, I just had a size (2.5 by 3.5 inches) and some watercolors. This is standard playing card size, also standard 'Art Card' size. Over a year ago I made about 30 similar paintings within 2 months and I haven't painted another one since yesterday. Having the experience of painting like this I know whatever I come up with will be okay. I don't trust that everything I do will be great, but I know from experience that there are certain pieces that need to get done on the path to better ones. I can't plan to make only the 'best' pieces. Lately my larger pieces have been black and white abstract art pieces. They look a lot like liquids mixing under a microscope. The little watercolors are made in a similar intuitive state of mind, but they are full of imagery, most of which is domestic- beds, toilets, gardens, kitchens, and people or anthropomorphic animals inhabiting cross-sectioned interior spaces. Castles, water, boats, fireplaces, whales, food, doors and ladders show up a lot as well. The diminutive size forces me to be more delicate than if I made the same paintings bigger. In some ways I can add more detail on a smaller area than on a bigger area, which is weird.