2020.12.01 18:03
I'm still alive
For the past few years, I’ve divided my time between work on museumpeace/art and quondam/architecture—alternating projects on a weekly basis. Since quondam receives only half my attention, perhaps that’s why you thought I might be dead. Among other things, there are a number of paintings done in 2020 – www.museumpeace.com/20/2020.htm -- all done in the name of community service.
Thanks for your concern.
I’ll try to remember to let you know when I’m about to die.
2020.12.01 18:12
Re: I'm still alive
Stephen!
I'm glad you're here! I remember you were taking care of your brother. How are you doing with all this covid? I like site more and more, and realized when I wrote what I did today, I hadn't been to the most current section. It really is beautiful. I still have your three volumes.
You are correct, I thought you might be passed, I'm glad you haven't. I'm sure you have plan for when you do pass, what will happen to your estate.
Do you talk with John Devlin? I thought I recalled that you two might be communicating, but I feel I'm wrong.
I'll let you know when I'm on a respirator, if things don't change soon, it might be close.
2020.12.01 18:39
Re: I'm still alive
The Mary Boone series, you completed 180 separate pieces, were these constructed in 1 hour blocks, using Art Forum pages? Brilliant.
2020.12.01 18:59
Re: I'm still alive
Ken,
My brother and I have been very insular for several years now, so in that respect our life together isn’t so different now with covid. Neither of us is infected, but it does scare me that I wouldn’t be able to be with my brother is something were to happen to him.
There are no plans for my estate, and I doubt I’ll actually ever make any. The only thing I would do, if it were easy, is make quondam’s cad data freely available as .dwg files. I checked out tumblr a few weeks ago, but is seemed like I wouldn’t be able to upload .dwg files that would then have a url that anyone could access. Quondam will probably just expire once I pass and the yearly bill is no longer paid—that’s why I’d like an external free site that I could upload to and then the cad data would be freely available ‘forever’.
The Mary Boone paintings are painted specifically on Mary Boone gallery advertisements from Art in America and ArtForum magazine pages. The original intention was to do one painting per hour, but, as I got more into the actual painting, some started taking several hours to complete. Thus there are (I’m guessing) something like 60 [sic there are 94] Mary Boone paintings. I just began recording how long each painting took. It was a fun project—I have absolutely no training in painting—and I learned a lot.
Steve
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Mary Boone's 180 hours of community service hour 160
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