Patron Saint of Year End

Everyone, at least the hyper critical types, are always drawn to summing things up this time of year. My reasons for doing the following comic are complicated, confusing and odd. But I did it, and it was fun. I especially liked coloring it in. I think that art is like little league baseball, in that it's not who wins or loses, it's how you play the game. Or if everyone has fun. I dont know.

Click the comic to enlarge. Actually, it's rather frustrating, you have to click on it, and then go to another screen with it the same size, but it haas a little icon which says, All Sizes, and then you click that, and then you select Large, and then you can read it. But believe you me, it is well worth it.

Guide to 2004, originally uploaded by Art or Idiocy?.

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Biz Card, originally uploaded by Art or Idiocy?.

This is one of my handmade business cards. It is a work of singular genius and let me tell you why.

First off, it is a fake business card, in that it is drawn to look like a mass-produced one, but in reality is meticulously hand crafted. It is a real business card, though. It has real information and can be used as a networking solution.

It is Uber-Warholian. Andy Warhol talks about wanting to be a machine, and the best way to be an art machine is to perfect the ability to draw the same thing over and over. Like this dog guy. You thought it was a funny little character but you were wrong. It is all just one big simulacrum.

Beyond this we have the totality of the situation, a perfect mixture of art and commerce.

I was at Sonotheque at the of Artists' Month this past October for a show I participated in there. I had hundreds of dog cutouts that I installed in the restrooms. Again, with the repetition. One of the other exhibiting artists was there, Krista Peel, and we began to talk. I gave her one of my homemade business cards, and she instantly had an idea. Krista, among other things, makes miniature art installations. Dollhouses with a contemporary knack for design.

She saw my tiny dog on the back of the card as a perfect mini poster for a mini room.

At any rate, she has included my piece, along with many by other real, honest-to-goodness artists, in her ultra-mod dollhouse. The result is the sculptural product and a calendar of images.

As if to come full circle, the event to kick all this off is at Sonotheque. Below you will find the invitation.