I googled Robin Kaelber… though she died before the web was born. When they killed JFK, I was in the Rathskellar, “the Rat.” I interrupted a chess game to check the TV news nearby. “That’s politics,” I said. People had a hard time measuring my depth from that statement. The consensus was “shallow.” “Heartless” and “immature” were close behind. “Perceptive” wasn’t even on the list. When they killed John-John to shut down George magazine… well, only a handful of memesters, propagandists, and zany conspiracy theorists were even looking in that direction. Lakoff would likely understand. Maybe not, for no grants nor tenure lie on that rocky ground.
A riderless horse, boots reversed… a pale horse…
art for goodness sake…
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$350.00 FIRM
FRAMED OIL ON LINEN PAINTING BY KENN DAVIS.
** THIS PAINTING IS A PIECE OF ROCK HISTORY. LISTED ARTIST, CALIFORNIA SURREALIST, KENN DAVIS WAS COMMISSIONED BY THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE ROCK BAND…( Jerry Kaukonen and Marty Balin specifically) TO CREATE AND PAINT A PORTABLE MURAL FOR ATHEIR SHOW, THAT COULD ALSO BE USED WHILE THEY WERE ON TOUR … .
DAVIS CREATED THE PIECE IN THREE, … 6′ X 4′ SECTIONS THAT CONNECTED AND WORKED LIKE A (TRIPTIC) SCREEN. THE THEME WAS THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (Famine, plague, war & death) REPRESENTED AS ROCK MUSICIANS. DAVIS FIRST DID A SMALL OIL PAINTINGS OF EACH SECTION AS STUDIES TO WORK FROM AND THIS PAINTING WAS ONE OF THOSE. THIS PARTICULAR PAINTING HUNG IN THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANES’ GROUP HOUSE (ON LOAN) FOR A LONG TIME.
—– THE FULL BACKDROP WAS FIRST USED BY THE JEFFERSON AIRPLANE AT THE MATRIX ON FILLMORE IN SAN FRANCISCO IN THE LATE 1960s. WHERE THE TRIPLICATE SCREEN IS NOW IS UNKNOWN TO ARTIST, DAVIS. … ** THE CORNER OF ONE PANEL WAS A CITY IN THE SKY ON GIRDERS UNDER SEIGE. KENN DAVIS LIKED THIS SECTION SO MUCH THAT HE KEPT THE STUDY ALL THESE YEARS .
SIZE OF THIS PAINTING: 16″ X 20″ UNFRAMED. THE MEDIUM IS OIL ON LINEN. FRAMED, IT MEASURES 19 3/4″ X 23 3/4″.
FINE CONDITION WITH NO DAMAGE. SIGNED BY ARTIST ** WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY PERSONAL LETTER TO BUYER CONTAINING HISTORY TO ESTABLISH PROVENANCE OF THE WORK. NO PRINTS HAVE BEEN MADE OF THIS PIECE.
If you find the triptych let me know. I could use it for a butterfly effect. So much love, so long gone. We were talking about depression - quite distinct from this sadness I feel. The dog wiggled her butt tonight - lacking a tail that’s what she does - and I was reminded that we heal. That little butt wiggle probably set air in motion that will cause a typhoon in mandalay, but what do I care? i’m here now. But depression is a low place from which the exit is not obvious, a black hole - gravity sucking light down into its event horizon, letting nothing escape until finally not even a team of wild horses could drag you back and the only option really is to just sit there in front of the computer, unaware of what your fingers will look like on the keyboard if you choose not to move.
Siddhartha, hermits, sitars tuned too tight, too slack, life ends in death no shortcut no exit no exit-the-squid is the premier model organism for studying the nervous system and has spawned discoveries … 100 times the size of a human axon, the squid’s axon is roughly a millimeter in diameter and the largest nerve fiber on Earth the Man-O-War gets its name from the float, colonial polyps are attached to the underside of the bladder for digestion and reproduction, with very long tentacles ( sometimes up to 32 feet ) extending Man-O-Wars [not men-o-war] are hermaphrodites; the fertilized egg develops into a planktonic larval form Man-O-War’s main food consists of surface plankton, although it can also take larger prey tentacles have stinging cells capable of killing poison secreted causes respiratory problems and muscle weakness sting … extremely painful … incapacitating … fatal … Man O’ War easily drew away in the final quarter-mile to defeat the Triple Crown champion by 7 lengths … undefeated season of 11 straight wins, the superstar horse was shipped to Faraway Farm “Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes…”
Well when you’re sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
Ah, I’ll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon
And another girl can take my pain away
the tongue in the cavity of our mouth is - a gesture of an armless dancer, twirling the air, like a gaseous, dancing veil; as they fly off to the sides, the tips of the veil tickle the larynx; and - out comes a dry, aery, quick “h,” pronounced like the Russian “kh” takh me dawn liggle thujee takh me dawn…
