David Byrne Journal: 05.17.09: Art is good for you?
Another excellent post over at David Byrne’s blog where he ruminates on the effect of viewing art , making art and personal anecdotes of growing up in Baltimore. His argument seems to fizzle as he gets to his own experience, though still worth reading.
However, one thing led to another and connections, sometimes bizarre, were made. I painted a picture in high school of a phalanx of identical businessmen (who may have resembled my dad a bit), in a style reminiscent of George Tooker (I realize now)  standing against a wall of brightly colored, abstract empty picture frames and on a floor decorated with Northwest Indian tribal images, with hook-beaked creatures and densely packed biomorphic forms. It could have been a psychedelic record cover, and it referenced, or maybe simply imitated, everything visually available to me in suburban Baltimore that seemed wild and cool.
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