HOW TO MURDER YOUR BRAND

 yo!.. brand new mess.. innit!

here in palookaville..

we know how to ruin a good thing..

here is a list..

1. change the logo..

2. capsize your boat..

with your brand name on the side..

leave it half submerged for months..

with all the world watching..

3. change the name..

4. change the boss..

uh oh..

loss of attention alert..

IF IN DOUBT

do nothing..

lie down in a darkened room..

take a vacation..

get a real job..

get out more..

take a walk..

talk to the people in the street..

don't mention gender..

LOS ANGELES

 yo!.. funny ole life.. innit?

this space is  for the painting..

that is missing from this post..

because the pic of it is in another town..

on another mac..

you would be forgiven for expecting it..

to be in the cloud..

it being an angel an all..

but then..

this is palookaville..

come back again..

in a while..

evva boddy nose..

I am the author of the great series of paintings called..

figures in a souk..

usually it's folks..

standin around talking or shoppin..

or just chillin out..

together or apart..

in a souk..

 BUT THEN

every now and again..

a funny figure appears..

it looks like a dude with a back pack..

but what if it is really..

a dude with wings..

NOBODY EXPECTS

to see angels..

in a modern painting..

any artist would want..

not to be seen..

anywhere near anything angelic..

it's just not modern..

ISN'T MODERNISM DEAD

I thought it was all over..

so last century..

but everywhere you go..

you get people using the word modern..

to describe stuff..

especially houses..

as modern..

even though they are not..

they can be 'new' or 'contemporary'..

but unless they are built in the modern style...

you know..

cantilevers an stuff..

concrete an glass etc.

they ain't modern..

lavatory or not..

ANYWAY

I have this painting..

standing in my studio..

with a bunch of cistine chapel types..

hanging out in the souk..

maybe..

watching folk..

keeping a beady..

out for whatevva..

I expect that..

sooner or later..

the arts council will show up..

in a taxi..

with a large eraser..

to rub out the offending angel..

and return the painting to..

an acceptable..

 secular state..

NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH ACQUISITION

it would be nice..

if the painting..

be allowed..

to hang out in spain..

with valasqueth..

in the prado..

but more likely it will go into a skip..

CARY GRANT AND JEAN ARTHUR

it may be that this dude is no angel..

but a terrorist with a backpack..

there seems to be a lot of that about..

terrorism and backpacks..

dudes from hell..

expecting heaven..

how likely is that..

anyway..

there maybe a lot of dudes with backpacks these days..

but..

ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS

it occurs to me now..

as I write this..

that looking at the colours here..

and the way the figures are realised..

that maybe all..

or at least most of the figures here..

are angels..

standing around like actors..

in  

CITY OF ANGELS

it's a movie I like..

nicolas cage and meg Ryan..

what's not to like..

anyway..

SQUARE BUT MODERN

the yellow square..

is obviously the sun..

what else could it be..

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city of angels

onlyangelshavewings

ENTER THE SUN

 yo!.. night in armour shining.. innit!

 

 

I was sitting in the studio..

having an evening beer..

when I noticed the sun..

 had come out to play..

and was playing on one of my paintings..

 seems to be pretending..

 to be a horse..

or a knight like in chess..

maybe wants to play chess..

which would leave me struggling..

as chess and me don't mix..

I am not good at next moves..

I don't think several moves ahead..

I'm not a stepping stone kind of guy..

not a multi-tasker either.. 

it's one thing at a time for me..

so I'm drinking the beer..

and the sun is doing the painting..

not a bad job at all..

the sun paints with light..

but it does not last..

so I went and got the camera..

and here we are..

sharing a moment together..

me with a beer..